The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservations Can Love
by Matthew Miller /
2003 / English / EPUB
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A revolutionary program for fixing America 's most serious domestic
problems for just two cents on the national dollar -while we still
can. Suppose someone told you that for just two cents on the
national dollar we could have a country where everyone had health
insurance, full-time workers earned a living wage, poor children
had great teachers in fixed-up schools, and politicians no longer
had to grovel to wealthy donors. And suppose that when we were
done, government would still be smaller than it was when Ronald
Reagan was president. If you're like most people, you'd probably
think that for two cents on the dollar this sounds like an
intriguing deal. But 2 percent of America's GDP is more than $200
billion a year -way beyond what politicians in Washington think is
possible. Between our proper intuition that 2 percent is a small
amount, and the Washington consensus that a 2 percent shift in
priorities is beyond imagining, lies the opportunity to transform
American politics. In this agenda-setting book, Matthew Miller
challenges our country (and those who would lead it) to change the
way we think about our public responsibilities before the baby
boomers' retirement siphons all the money out of the system. The
Two Percent Solution is a call to arms that no serious candidate,
Republican or Democrat, can afford to ignore.
A revolutionary program for fixing America 's most serious domestic
problems for just two cents on the national dollar -while we still
can. Suppose someone told you that for just two cents on the
national dollar we could have a country where everyone had health
insurance, full-time workers earned a living wage, poor children
had great teachers in fixed-up schools, and politicians no longer
had to grovel to wealthy donors. And suppose that when we were
done, government would still be smaller than it was when Ronald
Reagan was president. If you're like most people, you'd probably
think that for two cents on the dollar this sounds like an
intriguing deal. But 2 percent of America's GDP is more than $200
billion a year -way beyond what politicians in Washington think is
possible. Between our proper intuition that 2 percent is a small
amount, and the Washington consensus that a 2 percent shift in
priorities is beyond imagining, lies the opportunity to transform
American politics. In this agenda-setting book, Matthew Miller
challenges our country (and those who would lead it) to change the
way we think about our public responsibilities before the baby
boomers' retirement siphons all the money out of the system. The
Two Percent Solution is a call to arms that no serious candidate,
Republican or Democrat, can afford to ignore.