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Things I would like to see enacted by the new US Congress Senate
Healthcare :
ban certificate of need laws
Price transparency reform
Environnement
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Cap and trade system
Cut ev subsidies for people living in areas covered by public transit.
Social :
You need an ID to vote everywhere
Marijuanna decriminalization
@louiscouture I set my sights much lower. I'd be quite pleased with all budgets getting passed before the start of the fiscal year ;)
@louiscouture the only cities covered by public transportation are NYC, Washington DC, and Chicago. And the ones who can afford living there and own a car at the same time are already ineligible for EV subsidy
@louiscouture expanding more on this point, it also further discourages people from living in areas with public transportation
@daeyoung I wasn't aware there were limits in USA
@louiscouture oh yeah, there are lots of restrictions on the EV tax credit. Single households earning over 150k are ineligible for EV tax credit and new battery EVs that cost more than 55k are also out.
Also, I think it’s important to mention EV tax credit is not designed to be poverty relief. To optimize on the environmental effect, we need to boost those who can actually afford EVs, which inevitably concentrated on people who aren’t terribly poor but also not rich enough to purchase one on their own. From a policy perspective, I think the IRA is one of the exceptionally well designed bills
@louiscouture Some of this i disagree with, but i agree with more of it than not I'd say. Good list :)