A few political questions?

As far as healthcare, we should extend Medicare to all citizens in its current form, not the one Republican congress critters are pushing, a voucher system. The question of Medicare solvency and sustainability are raised by Republicans to muddy the waters about the program, but it has been in existence for 50 years now, and still works for those who use it. It is a tried and trusted program.

Rebuilding the middle class is a tougher problem. What Americans need now is opportunity for work that does not require extensive education beyond high school and that pays a decent salary. That was the formula that brought about the rise of a strong and confident middle class in the mid-20th Century. Now that the jobs that qualified for that designation have mostly gone to lower cost foreign nations, we are in a quandary how to recapture those losses. We probably need to bring manufacturing back to the US to accomplish this. The big question seems to be, how to do that. This BS that corporate America has sold us about the value of free trade is one of the prime drivers that pushed those jobs out of the country over the last 25 years. It is possible the tide will naturally turn, and manufacturing will return to the US in the near future. Then there is the problem of rising efficiencies in the wokplace and replacement of workers with technologies. The fallout form that is lower demand for workers. Like I said initially, it is a tough nut to crack.

As far as taxation, we should rely on those with the most income to pay for the system. Reliance on the lowest paid earners to float the system is ridiculous, it just makes no sense at all. The current income tax structure includes what is called the earned income tax credit allowance. It was designed to encourage work by low income earners and supplements their incomes with tax credits. It can cancel out any tax debt owed but is complicated and the individuals who qualify often go to paid preparers to determine if they qualify. The popular mantra about income taxes now is simplify. There are flat tax and fair tax ideas floated routinely. However, the fairness of fair tax or flat tax systems is not clear to me. I need much more convincing before I will be sold on either idea.

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Raise up the poor. And NOT by handouts alone. Give them what they bust their asses to earn! They'll spend it and enrich the middle class, or save it and JOIN THEM.

I'm about ready for single payer healthcare, if I understand it correctly. And although I gag a little on this, government price controls on healthcare services.

Many companies try not to hire Americans. They are doing this with the educated as well as the uneducated. The people with work visas don't need years of experience to get a job here.

The poor rarely pay anything in income tax, so I don't see how that would help. Obamacare has risen the cost of healthcare by almost 200% and it's expected to go up again next year. If anybody truly wants to help the middle-class, less regulations for small business start ups and less taxes...period.

There is no way to rebuild the middle class without removing the unnecessary new costs, risks, and impediments associated with employing Americans. In other words, you need to get rid of liberalism.

You work with human nature to solve the problem, not against it.

You can't throw money at stupid people with no personal plan or drive to get ahead.

You don't help the character of people by making the job they were doing yesterday, automatically worth more today.

The entire marketplace adjusts to the new minimum level.

Its not good for the country to have all taxes except sales tax paid by the top income levels alone

1. Support Donald Trump for President

2. The poor don't pay income tax

3. Repealing Obamacare and removing all the EPA restrictions on the economy would make employer based healthcare affordable for the working and Medicare and Medicaid sustainable for the elderly and the poor.

It will take more than just increasing minimum wage, to start with.

In relation to the minimum wage issue, here's a list of interesting articles, http://bitly.com/1geGNXP.