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News. See: News sources. Facebook: GCM-420. Social media: Tags. Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. It is not socialist. It is Common Sense. (search for "poor" among Thomas Paine quotes). See: List of minimum wages by country. And: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist either. See: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [16]. Racist Republican state governments in 28 states passed laws to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage. Far-right talk radio helps Republicans do this. Republicans block cheap municipal broadband in 26 states. Vote!  2020 Global Cannabis March and 420 Map. Crowd photo from Mexico City, May 4, 2019.  Ever-increasing US household debt under Trump, and his huge tax breaks for the rich, but not for the middle class who need it the most. Huge medical and student debt. Low minimum wages in many Republican states. See map. [1]. 22 Jan 2020: Legal pot ‘peddlers’ should be allowed to sell at farmer’s markets, on street corners, black activists say.  Minimum wage by state 12 Dec: 2020 US State Minimum Wage Rates. Plus map showing lower minimum wages in Republican states. [28][29].  Wikipedia: John Sinclair (poet).  27 Nov: Poopy lettuce strikes again, sickening 67 with E. coli-tainted romaine. 25 Nov: Our food is tainted with E. coli, yet Trump's FDA is rolling back safety rules.
 Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.
Do not buy most most cannabis stocks. There is a huge inventory of unsold cannabis: 17 Oct: Democrat Governors Of Northeastern States Adopt Coordinated Marijuana Legalization Plan. 9 Oct: Pennsylvania. Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed steps on marijuana legalization. 
 Chart from: 16 July 2019: Scotland has highest drug death rate in EU. [44]. BBC News. Data is latest available at article publication. 218 deaths per million for Scotland in 2018. 217 for US in 2017. Return to top. Or: Table top. Or: News. Or: Home.
 9 Oct: America's richest 400 families now pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. CBS News. Return to top. Or: Table top. Or: News. Or: Home.  7 Aug: Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise possession, sale, and production of cannabis. Coalition of Liberals, Social Democrats, Greens. [54][55][56].  Return to top. Or: Table top. Or: News. Or: Home. Global Cannabis March and 420.  President Vladimir Putin. Screwing up elections at home and abroad. Wikipedia: 2019 Moscow City Duma election. And: Wikipedia: 2019 Moscow protests. And: Moscow Mitch blocks election security bills in the US Senate, and nearly all cannabis reform legislation!
Return to top. Or: Table top. Or: News. Or: Home. 22 Jul 2019: Philippine march for cannabis. Quezon City, part of Metro Manila. [58][59][60].
US Republican leaders are out of touch with mainstream Americans and Canadians. 21 Jul: Canada. THC slushies, pirate radio, and cannabis-driven boom in a Mohawk community.
19 Jul 2019: Texas Republican Leaders Want You to Know They Really, Really Hate Marijuana. [63][64][65][66]. 18 Jul: Texas Republican Lawmaker Lies about Pot & Veteran Suicides to Block Medical Access. [67][68].  17 Jul: Republicans Want a White Republic. They'll Destroy America to Get It. Time magazine. Return to top. Or: Table top. Or: News. Or: Home. Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. See also: Trump approval hits new low (35%) in CNN poll. 32% in AP–NORC poll. Lowest in history for a first-year President. [71]. Bring back democracy: Remove Presidential veto power. And: Senate 60% rule.   See: More News. And: Cannabis is safer. And: Cannabis polls. Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out. Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool - Ballotpedia. Enter address. Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [72][73][74]. Timeline. Trump's staggeringly low approval ratings compared to other presidents. Scroll down. Run mouse cursor over Presidential charts. Updated continuously.
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News: If Bernie would stop calling himself a democratic SOCIALIST he could win. He is actually an old-time progressive democrat who wants universal healthcare and progressive taxation. Like Roosevelt and Truman. Truman, a Democrat, followed by Eisenhower, a Republican, had steep progressive taxation where the middle class had less taxes, and prospered the most they ever have in US history. Truman and Eisenhower both increased the minimum wage, which inevitably pushes up middle class wages.
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- Share link: polls. This article was written by Timeshifter. See also: Vote out most Republicans.
Polls before and after the first Global Marijuana March in May 1999. Global marches, rallies, and medical cannabis activism overcame the propaganda that massively escalated with
Reagan's war on cannabis.
It is sometimes difficult to get national and international media to cover the Global Marijuana March. But there is a lot of media coverage locally in many cities, including TV coverage. Many times even with just a few marchers. It really matters because it normalizes cannabis users in people's minds. "Oh, it is those yearly marijuana marchers again. No big deal." So more and more people get used to the idea, and go to the next steps of passive and active decriminalization. Such as looking the other way, limited legalization of possession, and eventually full legalization in some places. Kind of like how laws against interracial couples and marriage were ignored. Osmosis. See the large crowd shots worldwide.
Register and vote for cannabis.
2019
19 Apr 2019: Support for marijuana legalization hits new high (65%), CBS News poll finds.
2018
22 Oct 2018: 2 in 3 Americans (66%) Support Legalizing Recreational Marijuana. [75]. By Gallup Poll.
26 Apr 2018: Poll: Support for legal marijuana hits all-time high (63%). By Max Greenwood. The Hill. Quinnipiac University poll. "Support for legalization hit 63 percent in the survey — the highest level of support recorded by a Quinnipiac poll".
2017
As of late 2017 polling even Republicans support recreational marijuana legalization. [76]. But not Republican politicians. CannabisVoter.info - Click on your state to determine which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out of office.
| From early 2017: There’s Only One Demographic That Still Thinks Marijuana Should Be Illegal. Republicans. See: Quinnipiac poll done Feb. 16-21, 2017. And: Pew Research poll results from September 2016. |
- March 29, 2017 article: Public support for marijuana legalization surged in 2016. By Christopher Ingraham. Washington Post. Timeline of polling from 1973 to 2016 by General Social Survey, the gold standard for public opinion research. Note the surge of support for legalization starting around 2005. Denver voted to legalize in 2005, the first major US city to legalize small amounts of marijuana.
- Pro-pot arguments fly higher with likely voters. March 8, 2017 Science Daily. More info: [77] [78].
- Quinnipiac poll: 71% oppose enforcing federal marijuana laws in states where the drug is legal. February 25, 2017 article.
2016
For the first time more Australians support legalizing pot than oppose.
- Surge in support to decriminalise marijuana, multi-decade survey finds. By Heath Aston. December 25 2016. The Sydney Morning Herald.
The polls that matter the most are elections.
US states that have legalized as of the Nov. 8, 2016 election:
| States that have legalized. |
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| Current medical marijuana states, with map. And: Clickable MPP map. And: Clickable NORML map. |
2015
See Reagan's war on cannabis. Above timeline is adapted from one of the charts in this article:
| Latest Gallup Poll Shows Only 2-in-5 Americans Oppose Marijuana Legalization. By Russ Belville. October 21, 2015. |
- See also: inmystride.blogspot.com and Canadian opinion poll results.
2014
- U.S.: New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization. 28 Jan 2014. Hemp News. From the article:
Americans ages 18 to 34 favor marijuana legalization by a huge 49-point margin -- almost three of every four in this age group expressed support. Among those aged 35 to 49, just more than half said they support legalization, compared to 49 percent of those 50 to 64, reports Rebecca Ballhaus at the Wall Street Journal. Those over 65 oppose it, 59 percent to 38 percent.
2013
- In U.S., 38% Have Tried Marijuana, Little Changed Since '80s. 2 Aug 2013, by Lydia Saad. Gallup Politics.
2012 May. U.S. adults
- Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana: New Poll - Toke of the Town.
- Americans Decry War on Drugs, Support Legalizing Marijuana. Angus Reid Public Opinion.
"Across the country, 52 per cent of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, while 44 per cent oppose it. Majorities of men (60%), Independents (57%) and Democrats (54%) would like to see marijuana legalized. Women (45%), respondents over the age of 55 (48%) and Republicans (43%) are not as supportive of legalization. In four nationwide surveys conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion on the topic of marijuana legalization since 2009, support has always surpassed the 50 per cent mark in the United States, and opposition has not reached 45 per cent."
"Methodology: From May 29 to May 30, 2012, Angus Reid Public Opinion conducted an online survey among 1,017 American adults who are Springboard America panelists. The margin of error—which measures sampling variability—is +/- 3.1%. The results have been statistically weighted according to the most current education, age, gender and region Census data to ensure a sample representative of the entire adult population of the United States. Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding."
2012 May. Likely U.S. voters
- 56% Favor Legalizing, Regulating Marijuana - Rasmussen Reports. From the article: "A new national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 56% favor legalizing and regulating marijuana in a similar manner to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are regulated. Thirty-six percent (36%) are opposed to such a legalizing and regulating pot."
2010 July. U.S. adults
Rasmussen poll. Source. 43% say marijuana should be legalized, and 42% disagree. While half of Democrats (51%) support legalizing marijuana, 62% of Republicans are opposed. Voters not affiliated with either major political party lean toward legalization by a 48% to 35% margin. The survey of 1,000 adults was conducted on July 21-22, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. They were simply asked whether or not they believed marijuana should be legalized.
2009 December. U.S. voters
A December 2009 poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion finds that 53% of Americans support legalizing marijuana, 43% oppose, and 4% are not sure. See: Most Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana. Poll question was "Do you support or oppose the legalization of each of the following drugs?" Methodology: "Online interviews with 1,004 American voters, conducted on Dec. 3 and Dec. 4, 2009. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent."
2009 April. U.S. adults
"It’s not just a California poll. A WashingtonPost/ABC survey, also released last week, revealed that 46 percent of Americans support legalization of small amounts of marijuana for personal use — that’s double the support it had a decade ago." - May 6, 2009. Christian Science Monitor. Article titled "Legalize marijuana? Schwarzenegger says let’s debate it." Actual poll: "Washington Post-ABC News Poll". Poll conducted April 21-24, 2009 of a random national sample of adults. The Washington Post. ABC News.
2008 US presidential election
"The Zogby poll, commissioned by the conservative-leaning O'Leary Report, surveyed 3,937 voters and found 52 percent in favor of legalization. Only 37 percent opposed." - May 6, 2009. "Majority Of Americans Want Pot Legalized: Zogby Poll". The Huffington Post. See also: "New Poll: 52% Say Marijuana Should Be Legal, Taxed, Regulated." May 06, 2009. Salem-News.com. "Is marijuana tax the next revenue stream?", by Michael B. Farrell. May 11, 2009. Chicago Sun-Times.
- *3,937 voters weighted to match the 2008 presidential outcome -- 54 percent Obama voters and 46 percent McCain supporters.
Voters were asked: "Scarce law enforcement and prison resources, a desire to neutralize drug cartels and the need for new sources of revenue have resurrected the topic of legalizing marijuana. Proponents say it makes sense to tax and regulate the drug while opponents say that legalization would lead marijuana users to use other illegal drugs. Would you favor or oppose the government's effort to legalize marijuana?"
Cannabis is safer
Return to top. See article: Cannabis is safer.
16 Dec 2019: Majority Of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization, Two More New Polls Show. "Voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 election expressed greater opposition to the policy than Republicans and Republican-leaning independents as a whole."
| 2 May 2019: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposes Cannabis Legalization. He opposed latest 3 bills for veterans’ access to medical cannabis. |
23 Feb 2019: Trump Continues to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.
Share link: Obama.
- Obama correctly said that cannabis is safer than alcohol. See: Cannabis is safer. He also said marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. And: Obama signals support for legalizing medical marijuana. [79]. See video.
- USA. 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults are alcohol-related (disease, overdose, car crashes, falls, violence, etc). 87,798 per year, 2006 to 2010. [80][81][82][83][84].
See longer article: Cannabis is safer.
- Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.
- Obama on marijuana legalization. [85]. "My suspicion is that you’re gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.
Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [86][87][88].
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [89]. December 2015.
 Obama helped turn around the Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration. See: US incarceration peaked in 2008. |
- Holder's Legacy: Steering Away From the Drug War and Mass Incarceration. [90]. Attorney General Eric Holder (2009-2015) under President Obama. 25 Sep 2014.
USA. The state of the nation
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There were 70,200 overdose deaths in 2017 in the US under the Republican-led drug war under Trump. Multiple drugs were involved in many of the deaths.
Vote out most Republicans
Return to top. Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.
Prosperity for all is not sustainable without universal healthcare, progressive taxation, higher taxes on the rich, lower taxes on the middle class, a high minimum wage, and a sustainable population. Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. It is not socialist. It is Common Sense. (search for "poor" among Thomas Paine quotes). See: List of minimum wages by country. And: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist either. See: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [91]. Racist Republican state governments in 28 states passed laws to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage. Far-right talk radio helps Republicans do this. Republicans block cheap municipal broadband in 26 states. Vote!
Money wasted on health insurance companies, drug wars, and most ground wars, helps no one.
Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.
US Republican cannabis war
Return to top. See also: Cannabis is safer.
Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
| Legal Marijuana Advocates Rank The Best And Worst Governors On Cannabis. 2.. By Tom Angell, Jan 16, 2019. From the article (emphasis added): |
| Of the governors who received passing grades in the new scorecard, 22 are Democrats and only five are Republicans. Meanwhile, 100 percent of those who got A grades are Democrats. On the other end of the scale, the 15 who got D grades and the four who received an F are all GOP governors. No Democrat got less than a C. |
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Register and vote for cannabis.
CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out.
Trump vetoes democracy. He does so via the threat of presidential vetos requiring a 2/3rds vote of Congress to override. No European democracy has such authoritarian executive vetos. Their kings, presidents, and prime ministers were stripped of such power.
USA. Life for Pot. Under Trump
GOP Senate blocks cannabis. The Republican US Senate is a pseudo-democracy. A minority of Republicans block federal rescheduling or descheduling of cannabis. They block many bills that have majority public support. They do so via a radically expanded filibuster rule that requires 60% votes to pass anything, thus allowing a minority of 40% to rule.
See Wikipedia: Nuclear Option. It can bring back "50% plus 1" democracy to the US Senate. Stop the:
Republican Senate filibuster against rescheduling or descheduling of cannabis. Still true.
| 16 July 2018: Republican Congressional Committee Blocks Marijuana Votes (Again). |
| 10 July 2018: Republican Congress Has Blocked Dozens Of Marijuana Amendments. |
Republican mass incarceration
- US still has the world's highest incarceration rate. The Republican-led drug war and Republican/NRA-led implementation of mandatory sentencing caused it.
| The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world due to the Republican-led drug war, and the Republican/NRA-led campaign for mandatory minimum sentencing. 29 Mar 2019: Republican history of support for the Bail Bond Industry, and cash bail for people accused, but not convicted, of nonviolent crimes. 2.3.4. 30 April 2019: How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits. |
Incarceration rates compared
OECD (developed democracies). Incarceration rates in chart below. See source info. And: Wikipedia:List of countries by incarceration rate. And: Wikipedia: Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries.
We need to look at Portugal!
Return to top. See: Portugal. Cannabis-related links. Also has links about Portugal's drug decriminalization.
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.
USA had 185 overdose deaths per million people. From 2016 chart in article. Also, see chart below.
Portugal had 6 overdose deaths per million people.
Chart of the day: Drug overdose deaths per million persons. Can the US learn something from Portugal? • AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas. By Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry - July 9, 2017. See chart:
How Europe's heroin capital solved its overdose crisis. By Chris Brown. Apr 25, 2017. CBC.ca. "Goulao says 90 per cent of public money spent fighting drugs in Portugal is channeled toward those health-care goals — just 10 per cent is spent on police enforcement."
Cannabis versus cigarettes
Return to top. See: Cannabis is safer.
Chart is for regular marijuana and cigarette use by 12th graders in the USA in the past 30 days. For cigarettes actual daily use is measured. For marijuana it is for use on 20 or more occasions in the past 30 days. Green line is for marijuana. Dark blue/purple line is for cigarettes. Percent of 12th graders using over the years. Note the drastic and welcome drop in cigarette use. Marijuana use has stayed relatively low and steady.
Life for Pot. Under Trump
USA. Life for Pot. Under Trump
70,200 deaths in US in 2017
During Trump's drug war.
Return to top. Click charts to enlarge.
There were 70,200 overdose deaths in 2017 in the US under the Republican-led drug war under Trump. Multiple drugs were involved in many of the deaths. See the numbers for the various drugs in the chart just below.
Chart source. Among the more than 70,200 deaths in 2017, the sharpest increase occurred among deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (synthetic opioids) with 28,466 deaths.
Chart source. Total US drug deaths by year. The 2 lines are for male and female numbers.
Trudeau's Canada legalized
Trudeau is not a socialist.
- Wikipedia: Cannabis in Canada. Recreational cannabis is legal in Canada.
Canadian healthcare myths
Return to top. See: Canadian healthcare myths.
| Videos. US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96. Nations with better and healthier quality of life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. |
Single Payer costs less and
Canada is not socialist.
See charts in these articles:
- Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
- Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.
| Medicare-for-all is single-payer, non-socialist, non-government-owned, Canadian-style healthcare. | |
| Charts. USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada got better outcomes, spent half as much per person, and thus has a higher median wealth. So: 55% of Americans support 'Medicare-for-all'. (2.) | Households with handguns: Canada: 3%. USA: 30%.) |
| Country | Median wealth per adult 2018. US dollars | Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2017 | Murder rate per 100,000. 2016 |
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| Canada | $106,342 | $4,826 | 1.7 |
| USA | $61,667 | $10,209 | 5.3 |
| US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare in 2017. Canada spent 10.4%. See: info, charts, videos exposing US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare. (2.) |
| Country | Life expectancy 2016 (2) | Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2017 | Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015 |
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| Canada | 82.8 years | 5.1 | 7.3 |
| USA | 78.5 years | 6.6 | 26.4 |
It has higher minimum wage
A higher minimum wage is also not socialist. Canada has a higher minimum wage than the US. See: Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
It has a lower murder rate,
US; more handgun owners.
See chart in previous section. Canada has a much lower homicide rate, and a much lower rate of handgun ownership. Even clueless Trump pinheads might figure out the connection. It is that simple.
Portugal's drug decrim
Return to top. See: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.
We need to look at Portugal, where their overdose death rate, HIV, and hepatitis rates, were all drastically reduced after decriminalization and a public health, universal healthcare, treatment-for-all approach.
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.
It has now been 18 years since Portuguese decriminalization in 2001.
Healthcare for all costs less
Return to top. Share link: longcanada.
Total healthcare cost per person in Canada and Europe is half of what Americans pay per person in taxes, deductibles, copays, and premiums. This is because health insurance companies have much less to do with healthcare there. Drug prices are negotiated. And universal healthcare is about prevention and keeping people well, and not about continually "treating" them and keeping them profitably sick. See info, charts, and videos in this article:
| Charts. US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare in 2017. - Canada spent 10.4%. See: info, charts, videos exposing Republican myths about Canadian healthcare. (2.) |
| Country | Per capita spending on health. Public and private costs. USD - PPP. 2017 | Healthcare costs as a percent of GDP. 2017 | % of health costs paid by gov't. 2016 |
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| (refs> | 6. | 7. | 8. |
| Australia | $4,543 | 9.1 | 67.8 |
| Canada | $4,826 | 10.4 | 70.3 |
| France | $4,902 | 11.5 | 78.8 |
| Germany | $5,729 | 11.3 | 84.6 |
| Japan | $4,717 | 10.7 | 84.1 |
| Sweden | $5,511 | 10.9 | 83.9 |
| UK | $4,264 | 9.7 | 79.2 |
| USA | $10,209 | 17.2 | 49.1 |
| USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada spent half as much per person, and got better outcomes. 55% of Americans support 'Medicare-for-all'. (2.) |
| Country | Life expectancy (years). 2016 | Under-five mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2016 | Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015 |
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| (refs> | 1. | 2. | 3. 4. 5. |
| Australia | 82.9 | 3.8 | 5.5 |
| Canada | 82.8 | 4.9 | 7.3 |
| France | 82.9 | 3.9 | 7.8 |
| Germany | 81.0 | 3.8 | 9.0 |
| Japan | 84.2 | 2.7 | 6.4 |
| Sweden | 82.4 | 2.9 | 4.4 |
| UK | 81.4 | 4.3 | 9.2 |
| USA | 78.5 | 6.5 | 26.4 |
Drug company price fixing
12 May 2019: Sweeping lawsuit accuses top generic drug companies, executives of fixing prices. On 60 Minutes. CBS news. From article: "But 1,215 generics, many of them the most prescribed drugs, jumped on average more than 400 percent in a single year. ... 90 percent of all prescriptions filled in this country are filled with generic drugs."
Huge cost of deductibles
2 May 2019: Trumpcare: Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills. Los Angeles Times. 26 Mar 2018: Why thousands of Americans Are Risking It and Skipping Health Insurance. Bloomberg News.
Medicare for all costs less
16 Jul 2018: The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care. New York Times.
10 Apr 2019: Medicare For All: Accept No Substitutes. [92][93]. Medicare spends only 1.4% on bureaucracy:
Related charts. See image source on Facebook.
And is not socialist.
US drug war is expensive
Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war.
Cash bail costs taxpayers
Return to top. - Republicans will do almost anything to maintain a high incarceration rate.
| 29 Mar 2019: Republican history of support for the Bail Bond Industry, and cash bail for people accused, but not convicted, of nonviolent crimes. 2.3.4. |
24 Jan 2017: Our Money Bail System Costs U.S. Taxpayers $38 Million A Day. On HuffPost.
Ground wars are costly
$5.9 trillion is the cost of America’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, etc..
Peace-keeping forces are much less expensive in money and lives. They actually prevent US involvement in ground wars for the most part. The US should not be fighting the ground wars of others. If that happens it often means the US is propping up authoritarians, dictatorships, fake democracies, and corporate wars. See: Wars, drug wars, black sites, and dictators on demand.
Pentagon is a money pit.
17 Mar 2019: The Pentagon’s Bottomless Money Pit. By Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. "Despite being the taxpayers’ greatest investment — more than $700 billion a year — the Department of Defense has remained an organizational black box throughout its history. It’s repelled generations of official inquiries, the latest being an audit three decades in the making, mainly by scrambling its accounting into such a mess that it may never be untangled."
Hemp for all
- Google search: The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Jack Herer. Chris Conrad.
| 12 Dec 2018: Veto-proof Farm Bill passed overwhelmingly by Congress. American farmers will be able to plant and harvest hemp. It could spark a boom for the $1 billion marijuana-linked CBD industry. 2. |
Children's Climate Action
Weekly totals for cities/towns worldwide for #FridaysForFuture youth strike for climate.
Facebook video with captions. A teenage climate activist (Greta Thunberg) called out world leaders in December 2018 at age 15. See comments and number of views by clicking on the video after it starts. Another popular version. Her videos have many tens of millions of views. See the full version on Youtube. It has a transcript in the description. There are many versions online. See Wikipedia: 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference. See: Thousands of UK Students Skipped Class to Protest Climate Change. Feb 15, 2019. Many photos.
- Wikipedia: Greta Thunberg. And: Wikipedia: School strike for climate. Many events worldwide.
- Google search: greta climate. Twitter: #FridaysForFuture #SchoolStrike4Climate #ClimateStrike.
- Wikipedia: Voting age. Voting age of 16 in many countries. Youth have more sense than US Republican climate change deniers.
Darwinian evolution turning into US Republican politician evolution:
Green Love. Warming &
Democrat Congresspeople in the US support cannabis reform and the environment much more than Republican leaders. Republican misogyny as represented by Donald Trump is only matched by Republican misogyny for Mother Earth. Partly due to Trump the number of Democrat women in Congress increased in record numbers after the 2018 midterm election. The number of Republican women in Congress declined after the 2018 election. See Wikipedia: 2018 United States elections.
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Nevada 2018. First US state with majority-female legislature.
18 Dec 2018: Nevada becomes first US state with majority-female legislature. This was partly due to voters dumping the Trump morons (Republican leaders) who opposed recreational cannabis. Nevada legalized recreational cannabis in 2016.
Overpopulation
Overpopulation is the main driver of global warming. Free birth control is part of the solution. The Little Ice Age is believed to have been partly due to the reforestation that occurred during the hundreds of years of lower human population caused by the Black Plague worldwide.
Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success. Free birth control. July 5, 2015. New York Times.
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7 July 2015: As with cannabis legalization Colorado led the way.. More info. 2.3..
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Wikipedia: Population milestone babies.
- 9 June 2015: Abortion Rates Dropped Sharply. What Caused It? "According to a survey released by the Associated Press on Monday, abortions have dropped by 12 percent nationwide since 2010. ... the correlation between increased access to contraception and a decrease in unplanned pregnancy has been significantly documented over the last two decades. Teen pregnancy rates have been dropping to historic lows, a trend that has been connected to the change in social norms surrounding contraception and increased birth control availability."
- ObamaCare Birth Control - Obamacare Facts. Free birth control.
Flood insurance
Return to top. More socialism for the rich.
Taxpayers Get Soaked by Government's Flood Insurance for Risky Beachfront Property of the Rich. It's really a subsidy for rich banks to cover their mortgage risk. And it's not just money for rebuilding homes in risky places being overrun by ever-increasing high water from global warming. It's money for neverending dredging, too. "Up and down the coast, the Army Corps of Engineers dumped sand on hundreds of beaches."
Green energy costs less
Oil subsidies are socialist.
15 Aug 2019: Renewable energy can generate billions of dollars in health benefits, study finds.
8 May 2019: Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending. By Tim Dickinson. Rolling Stone. From the article (emphasis added):
| It accounts for the “differences between actual consumer fuel prices and how much consumers would pay if prices fully reflected supply costs plus the taxes needed to reflect environmental costs” and other damage, including premature deaths from air pollution. |
9 Sep 2019: EU countries still giving breaks to fossil fuel industries, new study says.
President Eisenhower was
A progressive Republican.
He wasn't a socialist. His
- They tried to call FDR and the New Deal 'socialist' too. Here's how he responded. By Michael Hiltzik. Feb 13, 2019. Los Angeles Times.
91% top marginal tax rate
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hires Former Marijuana Lobbyist As Senior Advisor. By Kyle Jaeger. January 7, 2019. Marijuana Moment. From the article: "Both believe that marijuana should be legalized at the federal level".
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal.
7 Jan 2018: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70 percent top tax rate — here’s the research that backs her up. And: Haters. And: Dancegate.
Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
Make America Progressive and Prosperous for More Again. 
As Poll Shows Majority Back 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Ocasio-Cortez's "Radical" Proposal Proves Extremely Mainstream. [94][95].
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Median wealth per adult. Credit Suisse. 2019 report. Country links are to Wikipedia articles. Click red column headers to sort. Link.
Country Median wealth
per adult.
US dollars1 Switzerland 227,891 2 Australia 181,361 3 Iceland 165,961 4 Hong Kong 146,887 5 Luxembourg 139,789 6 Belgium 117,093 7 New Zealand 116,433 8 Japan 110,408 9 Canada 107,004 10 Ireland 104,842 11 France 101,942 12 United Kingdom 97,452 13 Singapore 96,967 14 Spain 95,360 15 Austria 94,070 16 Italy 91,889 17 Malta 76,016 18 South Korea 72,198 19 Norway 70,627 20 Taiwan 70,191 21 Qatar 69,671 22 United States 65,904 23 Denmark 58,784 -
& lower middle-class taxes
Overall taxes on the middle class in the US were lower in the 1950s
Equaled prosperity for more
Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
- Viral meme says 1956 Republican platform was pretty liberal. Article by PolitiFact says it is mostly true. See Wikipedia: PolitiFact.
Vs Republican Party today:
GOP kleptocracy, drug war,
| Republican Party. Greed, ground wars, drug wars, and mass incarceration. |
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Source. 22 Jan 2019: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A system that allows billionaires to exist alongside extreme poverty is immoral. -
Wage slave waking up -
See: map source. U.S. Dept. of Labor. Map of states with higher minimum wage than the federal minimum wage. Note that slavery still exists in the Republican South. Wage slaves. -
Wikipedia: Minimum wage in the United States. Wikipedia: Fight for $15. -
That illegal smile Republican leaders don't like.
US Republican war on poor,
Return to top. Income inequality and drug war.
Record US income inequality,
26 Sep 2019: Income inequality in America is at its highest level in more than 50 years.
| Stock owned by richest 10%. | |
| 2016 | 84% |
| 2013 | 81% |
| 2001 | 71% |
The Richest 10% of Americans Now Own 84% of All Stocks. Dec. 19, 2017. Time (magazine). "The top 10% of American households, as defined by total wealth, now own 84% of all stocks in 2016, according to a recent paper by NYU economist Edward N. Wolff."
Rich get richer; while middle class wages are flat (inflation-adjusted), and the federal minimum wage (inflation-adjusted) has declined.
USA. Since 2001, labor’s share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.
See chart. [5]. And source article.
Rich pay less taxes than you,
9 Oct 2019: America's richest 400 families now pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. CBS News.
8 Oct: For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class. The Washington Post. From the article: "The top 400 families have more wealth than the bottom 60 percent of households, while the top 0.1 percent own as much as the bottom 80 percent. ... the tipping point came in 2017, with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The legislation, championed by President Trump and then-House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), was a windfall for the wealthy: It lowered the top income tax bracket".
6 Oct: The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You. New York Times.
Flat inflation-adjusted wages,
Return to top. See: Under Trump, inflation-adjusted real wages are flat.
Chart. Homelessness is increasing under Trump. And: Inflation-adjusted wages are flat.
The top line in the chart below is for hourly wages adjusted for inflation: Bottom of chart below says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
And lower minimum wage.
USA. Inflation-adjusted federal minimum wage over the years. US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [96].
"The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation." See: Charts. See Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
Massive US student debt
Facebook video: $1.5 trillion in student debt. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. Read the heartbreaking comments. 10 Dec 2018: People Are Living With An Incredible Amount Of Debt From Student Loans And Credit Cards. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.
= Republican loansharking
See Wikipedia: Student debt. Roughly 1 in 4 adults. No bankruptcy rights. Much higher interest rates. Lifetime debt. Modern loansharking and predatory lending, approved by Republicans.
College at 16 is cheaper.
Return to top. See: Wikipedia: Age of majority (by country). Wikipedia: Voting age. Voting age of 16 in many countries.
Scotland: Adult at age 16. Prolonged forced adolescence is a waste of time and money. Increased agency is better. Public high school in the USA costs an average of $12,509 a year per student in taxes. The money now spent for high school between the ages of 16 to 18 could be set aside for 2 years of college tuition, room, and board. See: Scotland. What can I do at my age? See: Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991. See: Wikipedia: Education in Scotland: "In 2014, research by the Office for National Statistics found that Scotland was the most highly educated country in Europe".
Massive US medical debt,
This doesn't happen in Canada, due to single-payer universal healthcare.
17 Jan 2019: US. 34 Devastating Stories About How People Are Still Crushed By Medical Debt. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.
Massive US household debt,
Return to top. See Wikipedia: Household debt.
US household debt at all time high. Chart is in the PDF linked from that page.
Total household debt timeline.
Total Household Debt by Type:
Click to enlarge. Timeline is by quarters.
Polls support legalization
Return to top. See: Cannabis polls.
23 Oct 2019: 66% of Americans support legalizing adult use of marijuana. By Gallup Poll. 19 April 2019: CBS poll at 65% for legalization. This is after decades of activism such as cannabis marches, events, education, referendums, and more. See: cannabis polls and activism.
The majority of US Republicans now support full cannabis legalization, but many Republican leaders do not. We march until all the anti-cannabis US Republican leaders are removed from office.
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![[5]](https://cannabis.wikia.org/wiki/File:Labor%27s_share_of_national_income_as_a_percentage.png){kind=link}
