Ok so yes you are a fundamentalist socialist. Just go ahead and say it.
So 2nd bull of rights has largely gone unanswered to. Pretty much across the board. Where we stand the government only guarantees an education up thru high school, has interfered in our free market healthcare which provides innovation that the whole world benefits from, and only provides income and healthcare for the elderly via compulsory pension and health insurance programs which im not a fan of.
I believe the government should be minimized to the smallest extent possible and only provide the common defense and basic utilities while completely staying out of economic guarantees. They can only remove obstacles but not guarantee even basic outcomes. I am responsible for my outcome and the outcome of my family. I am not responsible for guaranteeing any body else’s outcome however if I choose to participate in anybody else’s outcome it will be by my own choosing via charity of my choice.
Sell me on FDR’s 2nd bill of rights since you are in the selling position.
I’ll summarize it in terms of impacts, in most cases it is just an expansion of rights:
right to a job = no need for unemployment insurance; work programs like TVA, ORNL, conservation corpse, etc were the first steps of being able to guarantee people work. It doesn’t mean you are prescribed a job, it just means there is always something to fall back on if you need it
living wage = when combined with a job guarantee this means broadening the tax base and increasing the GDP, if you then also team this with population growth a lot more opportunities open up for our country, more people means everyone gets richer. Welfare can be eliminated, and in turn people who have medical conditions due to malnourishment, poor hygiene, and insufficient living conditions would drop precipitously
A decent home = We have more homes in this country then we do people, so this wouldn’t be hard, and like previous points - if all homes are occupied there is more taxable revenue. Everyone benefits. Homes sitting empty don’t provide the revenue that occupied homes do. This eliminates homelessness and the need for spending on affordable housing which admittedly is currently one of the most exploited and corrupt programs
medical care = Medicare for all, essentially. its no secret that our country is one of the least healthy in the world, which is the main reason we spend so much as compared to other countries- if everyone was covered under Medicare, price gouging could be eliminated and we could save tons of money on healthcare expenditures
Economic protection = essentially we return to companies providing pension plans and continue (as we already currently do) covering employees who can’t work because of accidents or health issues
education = the goalpost has moved here, K-12 used to be enough to guarantee a good paying job, this would just expand to include years 13-17. rather than spending money on interest payments, people could be spending money on better living conditions, which grows taxable income, spending contributes more to the economy instead of private loan companies
