The last coal mine in the US closes.
The EPA becomes the Department of the Environment with adequate funding and staff.
2022
The Economic Democracy Act moves US social democracy several steps closer to socialism. It's features include:
" Full employment: Living wages for all jobs (federal government as employer of last resort)
" Worker ownership/management
" Nationalization of the commanding heights (including banks, railroads/airlines, auto manufacturers, oil and gas companies, utilities including telecom providers, defense contractors, insurance companies)
" All workers, public and private, represented by labor unions
" Real, guaranteed pensions for all
" Basic Annual Income to replace shredded safety net
" Tax reform/closure of havens, carried interest deduction and other loopholes for plutocrats
--End to corporate inversions
--Closure of domestic tax havens through the absorption of Delaware by Maryland
--Enactment of Tobin tax on stock trades, ban on futures trading, derivatives and other financial weapons of mass destruction
--Confiscatory estate tax to reduce oligarchy
--a return to Eisenhower era tax levels on the wealthy and corporations
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