Constructing Equity

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We don't need affordable healthcare. We need </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>universal</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> healthcare. We don't need access to education. We need tuition-free college and vocational training. Let's erase the weasel words and get right to the point. The only way any of us can live in a safe healthy society is if we all do.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Freedom and equity aren't free. Neither is a stable society. We must reduce the extraordinary amount we spend on the military and demand that the ultra-wealthy and corporations pay their fair share toward the public good.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>The alternative is to live in a country filled with poverty homelessness division and unrest.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Every worker needs a living wage. But more than that we need a thriving wage and Universal Basic Income is a practical starting point.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We also need universal taxpayer-funded childcare and pre-k education fare-free public transportation automatic voter registration elimination of the Electoral College ranked choice voting plus nationwide vote-by-mail as well as in-person voting.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We must provide training and new job opportunities for workers who will be displaced from fossil fuel industries as we confront an ever-worsening climate crisis. Because leaving them to fend for themselves only guarantees failure.</span></p><p> We pay for our choices one way or another. Let's use our resources wisely. </p>