Great Letter to the Editor in today's paper from John Witeck! Imagine what passing the President's agenda would do for the working families of Hawai‘i who are struggling to get by or are just one paycheck or sickness away from falling behind. Let's prioritize building our people, our state, our country back up and not just the military industrial complex.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Explain benefits of Build Back Better
The media (and the Democrats) could do a better job of portraying the costs and contents of the Build Back Better bill, which hopefully will pass by a simple majority via the reconciliation process. The contents of the bill should be described, including an extension of the tremendously significant child tax credit, important environmental spending to combat harmful effects of climate change, funding to lower the high costs of child care, expanded Medicare coverage and benefits, free or low-cost community college, and many other programs. And all this and more will continue for 10 years, and the cost will be mainly covered by higher taxes on corporations and the very wealthy who have not paid their fair share for decades.
Instead of depicting the bill as a $3.5 trillion program over 10 years, why not say its cost is $350 billion a year? Compare its $350 billion price tag for vital social programs with the $778 billion spent by the government in 2020 for military weapons and programs. That $778 billion military spending will no doubt go up each year as usual.
Original source can be found here.
