Continued subsidies for billion-dollar oil companies, Trump's push for more coal power, relaxing EPA standards on fuel efficiency...
It's more than just police presence, it's building codes, zoning that prevents heavy industry from moving in next to your house, regulations on chemical disposal - all of which have been pushed by the left and fairly consistently are opposed by the right because it undercuts profits.
Those are mostly bad policies*
*I don't agree with CAFE regulations, the market and move into electrification can decide fuel efficiency not government.
Blind_Io]Flint would like a word. EPA's own numbers show that over the last decade nearly 20% of Americans were exposed to unsafe water.[/quote]
Flint is a failing of a local (democratic IIRC) government
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Here's your bill, please sell everything you own and declare bankruptcy. Medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US.
That doesn't make healthcare inaccessibly, merely not affordable. However we are in this mess mostly because we moved from cash based transactions to private insurance. Going single payer, which is what I assume you are talking about, won't fix this, we would just end up footing those massive bills via taxes instead of money from our paychecks.
Blind_Io said:
Under DeVos, who has been very clear about her intentions to turn education into a for-profit business and remove any regulations that require states to provide anything based on actual evidence - instead we should be teaching what the Bible says.
We have gender studies in major accredited universities, nothing to do with science or DeVos... Education system is completely fucked up in general. This is a topic I can talk about for hours on end, but TL;DR is that school funding is tied to property taxes and test scores. That in turn ensures that there is a massive disparity in quality of schools depending on how expensive the area is and that schools don't teach anything aside from passing the test.
Blind_Io said:
You don't think that people with enough money don't have the same problems with the law as poor people?
There are a ton of white collar criminals behind bars, not to mention all the recent high profile sexual cases. Sure if you have money for lawyers you are likely to be better of than someone dealing with an overworked public defendant but there is always inherent imbalance in any human system. I'd also suspect that people with better income don't break laws as much or at least not in as obvious a way.
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Try living on minimum wage some time. Four out of five American workers still live paycheck to paycheck.
You are making a common mistake of confusing minimum wage with living wage. Minimum wage was never meant to be a living wage, it's unskilled labor that allows people to enter the workforce and get some experience. Also I have lived on min wage, it sucked. I'm one of those workers, which is largely my own fault but working on changing it.
Here is a Mike Row post on minimum wage
https://www.facebook.com/TheRealMik...-and-hour-a-lot-of-people-th/938376616172482/