{"id":8068,"date":"2018-01-24T10:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=8068"},"modified":"2018-01-24T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T17:50:22","slug":"apparently-pritzker-moderate-among-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2018\/01\/apparently-pritzker-moderate-among-democrats.html","title":{"rendered":"So apparently Pritzker is the moderate among the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I read and wrote about J.B. Pritzker yesterday<\/a>, and, by coincidence, there was a debate among the Democrats last night<\/a>, that brought candidate Daniel Biss to my attention, and led me to look at his website<\/a>.\u00a0 And, holy moly!, does he make Pritzker look like a moderate.<\/p>\n

Biss agrees with Pritzker on a $15 minimum wage and enhanced union bargaining power, as well as on marijuana legalization, protection for illegal immigrants, and all of the usual topics on which there\u2019s a bidding war to see who can be most \u201cprogressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Biss goes much further.<\/p>\n

Biss promises a single-payer healthcare system in Illinois.<\/p>\n

Biss promises free college.<\/p>\n

Biss promises heavily-subsidized childcare (10% of income capped at $500).<\/p>\n

Biss promises a 12-week paid family leave program.<\/p>\n

Biss promises \u201cuniversal long-term care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biss promises that he will include transgender transitioning procedures as covered benefits in his universal healthcare plan, and that he\u2019ll appoint an LG+ cabinet member specifically to advocate for the \u201c+\u201d causes, and that he\u2019ll change Illinois birth certificates to replace \u201cmother\u201d and \u201cfather\u201d with \u201cparent 1\u201d and \u201cparent 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biss promises to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030.<\/p>\n

And so on.<\/p>\n

And he funds all this (except, to be fair, the family leave program, which would be an added payroll tax) through tax hikes, including the constitutional-amendment-requiring graduated income tax, and a tax he calls the \u201cLaSalle Street tax<\/a>.\u201d Biss offers no specifics about the income tax hike but the\u00a0latter tax, he claims, would bring in $10 \u2013 $12 billion in FREE MONEY! by taxing Chicago Board of Trade and Merc transactions.\u00a0 It\u2019s similar to Bernie Sanders\u2019 plan, except that when Bernie planned to tax Wall Street, he at least planned to share the largesse with the entire country, so, really, it\u2019s as if Cuomo decided to tax all Stock Exchange transactions to the benefit of New Yorkers.\u00a0 As a bonus, Biss calls this a \u201cloophole\u201d because we ordinary folks pay our 6.25% state sales tax on our purchases, so it\u2019s unfair that the fat cats don\u2019t.\u00a0 (Never mind that we ordinary folk don\u2019t pay a sales tax when we\u00a0buy our houses, or when we deposit money into a 401(k), for instance.)<\/p>\n

So, wow.\u00a0 Certainly seems like the question is not whether, but when we get our own moving truck.<\/p>\n

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Image:\u00a0 https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ADaniel_Biss_2012.jpg; By Tim (Rep. Daniel Biss) [CC BY 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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