You’ll never do serious bkcy reform that would make it easier for kids to shed debt (incl. student debt). You’ll never do millennial debt forgiveness. Banks and investors will freak about how it would drive rates high and harm old people living on pensions and investments. And Big Education would lose their minds, as higher borrowing costs would force them to freeze tuition.
There’s never going to be a financial transaction tax, either. Same reasons.
These are real policies that would help the kids. Green New Deal? It’s nice, but it’s not seriously possible to implement over timeline where it’ll help the lower 85%. And Corp Ds will settle for carbon credits. Dust off Gore policies.
Corp Ds might do some form UBI. That I agree. That’s good.
ETA: Corp Ds, like Corp Rs, will never get behind policies which undermine “transaction man’s” grip on wealth here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-co...cs-11567782178
And I’m not sure I want them to. Corp Ds benefit me. But for the same reason I can’t vote for Trump, who benefits me differently but pretty much equally, I can’t vote for them. And I don’t have to. I know either way, a Corp D or Corp R will always win. But I don’t have to help them. I can take what I get and keep a conscience of sorts.
But Warren? I can vote for her. It’d hurt but be worth it.
