[1]Charles Booker
You might have missed it, but last week in Kentucky, GOP legislators
considered a bill that would defund local communities and school districts
in order to pay for a tax cut on private planes.
I wish I was joking:
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Let me tell you why this is striking. It’s not just because it shows how
out of touch these lawmakers are (though it does do that very clearly).
It’s because this is yet another example of how poverty becomes a policy
choice.
Every time politicians decide to give tax breaks to their rich donors, the
rest of us pay for it.
We pay for it in overcrowded classrooms. We pay for it in broken axles
from the potholes in our roads. We pay for it in cuts to Medicaid, social
security, and food stamps. I am sick and tired of working people being
told to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps when we have no boots to begin
with.
Our elected leaders should be investing in solutions that we know would
lift millions out of poverty: fully funded public schools, affordable
prescription drugs, and a guaranteed universal basic income.
Ending poverty is also a policy choice. We just need leaders with the
conviction to do it. This is why I’m running for the Senate. And it’s why
I’m asking if you’d join me.
[ [link removed] ]Please chip in $5 or whatever you can today to our
campaign, and help me replace Rand Paul in the Senate so we can end
poverty once and for all.
[ [link removed] ]Contribute $5
Together, we can usher in the representation we deserve from our Senate.
But I can’t do this alone: [ [link removed] ]If you’re with me, I hope you can chip
in $5 or anything you can right now to support our
grassroots-funded movement.
Together,
Charles
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