Now that it is safe, the Corpocrats do this. They know the Republicorps won't do it. The Corpocrats will give the illusion of doing something for the people but still keep their corporate masters happy.

Don't know if you figured it out or will read this--but Sinclair Lewis wrote "It Can't Happen Here". Of course, it is happening here.

that may be true my friend, but they all have been letting us down time and time again on both sides of the aisle but we the people are to blame for allowing them to get away with everything. We just dont vote, esp where it matters the most like the mid term where we were molly whopped by the republibons. i mean jeez everytime i even try to have a convo with people they get annoyed, dont know anything, or just are not interested in politics, which blows my mind. we all need to at minimum be aware of whats going on, and the majority of the people arent. its so sad, but we cant just give up i do know that, and we most def cant vote for anyone on the right.

Can't you see? This is all bogus theater. The Democrats always talk like progressives when campaigning then govern like Republicans after elected. They're suddenly fearless progressives now because Republicans are in charge and there's no chance of any of this passing - and upsetting their corporate sponsors.

Ralph Nader wrote in his book, Crashing the Party, that in the 2000 Presidential Election, when Al Gore was on TV saying, "I'm gonna fight for you against the big oil companies and big business...etc....." Joe Liebermann was on the phone to those same big oil companies and big businesses assuring them that Gore didn't mean any of it. It's all just to keep the pot boiling and maintain the fiction that there's any substantive difference between Republicans and Democrats.

It's about time!!

We also need to discuss the reasons for the initial implimentation of the inheritance tax and how diminishing or eliminating it contributes so much to greater inequality.

Those who say taxes were already paid on that money ignore the fact that for most large fortunes any tax paid on them was at the much lower rate given capital gains. Workers pay a higher tax rate than passive investors. How does society benefit when those who work for an income pay taxes at a higher rate than those who live off interest or are lucky enough to be bequeathed a fortune?

Seriously?? Too little too late! Sorry, but the Dems have let down their constituencies too many times and only now, after they've been slammed, do they take on real tax reform?

Here's an idea: Term limits based on campaign expenditures. If the winner of an election is also the candidate that spent the most on that election, he's ineligible for a subsequent term.

I think the Bullet Train is a great idea! A long time coming. Not only will it benefit the environment, businesses all across California will benefit from the convenience and speed offered by the train. It is an investment that will pay for itself several times over in the decades to follow. In short time, Californians will wonder how they ever existed without it. Here in the Bay Area, BART (The Bay Area Rapid Transit train system) was an equally ambitious project when I was a kid. There was much doubt that it would ever be a success. Now, thousands of Bay Area residents rely on the infrastructure on a daily bases. Yet, it is safe to say that BART has indirectly affected the lives of all Bay Area residents. BART has affected the value of homes as well as where people have chosen to live and work. Whenever it goes down, everyone on the road sufferers from the increase in traffic. When it is available, everyone benefits from the decrease in traffic. I have every confidence that in the same way the Bullet Train will be a huge success; and, as a Californian, I personally cannot wait till the day the ribbon is cut.

Maybe we could smoke some dope, hold hands and sing protest songs until all the bad karma is gone.

A good start would be to significantly reduce the term of Supreme Court Judges, back when a life time term was established the average lifetime was somewhere around fifty to sixty years. Most members appointed to the court by George W. Bush could still be in office in the forth decade of this century !

Actually this should also apply to members of the Congress. If we can term limit the Executive, who is elected by a majority of all the citizens in this country, then why not term limit members of Congress who are elected to office by a majority of voters in their relatively tiny home districts ?

The point here is that no one should be allowed to stay in national elected office until they become firmly entrenched !

That would be awesome to get rid of a supreme court judge for trustworthyness.

Is that even possible and has it been done before.

If not it should be.

Rather than hoping that we can pass a US Constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision, it would be far more appropriate to simply IMPEACH the five Republican "Justices" who LIED BLATANTLY in order to "justify" that so-called "ruling" which fundamentally amended the US Constituion without going through the amendment process which the US Constitution requires. There is presently NOTHING in the US Constitution that comes even close to justifying their claim that "corporations are people" as far as constitutional rights are concerned. The US Constitution has NOT been so amended. Their ruling was a BOLD-FACED LIE!

Those five "Justices" should be IMPEACHED and removed from office for violating BOTH of the Oaths of Office that they swore to uphold in order to become a Supreme Court Justice! Then the remaining Supreme Court Justices can repair the IMMENSE DAMAGE which those five dishonorable Republican Supreme Court "Justices" have inflicted on the American people.

Bravo to Mark S. -- I like that "imiseration theory" explanation.