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Because we never had a war on poverty. If we had, we would have had:
- A mandatory draft for any military action longer than thirty days
- Never started a drug war
- No government sanctioned gambling like lotteries and horse racing
- Single Payer Healthcare with supplemental private insurance
- A much higher minimum wage with teeth
- Serious regulation of education prices
- A stronger SEC regulating the market than the SEC that plays Football
- The Buffet Rule
- An FCC focused on breaking up monopolies in media
- Completely different class action lawsuit rules
- No Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court
- Unions focused on safety and benefits for workers
- Term limits
- Immigration reform
- Public campaign financing and six month campaign periods
- Elimination of carried interest and 10,000 other loopholes
- No Inheritance tax haven in the Dakotas
- Civics as a required high school course
- Readilly available birth control everywhere
- National sales tax and lower income taxes
- Zero for profit business in the prison industry
- Laws against banks charging minimum balance fees
- A required one hour unbiased class before getting a first mortgage
This list could be thousands of lines longer....
I'm not saying I'm for all these items, but they would reduce poverty pretty quickly if enacted...
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