1. Citizen Affluence and Public Policy
Political Polarization and The Battle of the Budget

2. The Battle of the Budget

7. Vladimir Lenin: “What is to be Done?” Timothy Noah

8. Reregulate Wall Street and break up the “Too Big to Fail Banks”
Soak the Rich! Income and Estate Taxes.
Universal Preschool

9. 4. Impose Price Controls on Colleges and Universities
5. Revive the Labor Movement – Repeal Taft-Hartley and Raise the Minimum Wage
6. Single Payer Healthcare
7. Elect Democratic Presidents!

10. Vladimir Lenin: “What is to be Done?” Joseph Stiglitz

11. What is to be Done??? – Stiglitz
“A real economic reform agenda would simultaneously increase economic efficiency, fairness, and opportunity” (p. 336).
Curb the Financial Sector
Force more competition in various industries. 

12. 6. End Corporate Welfare and Government Giveaways
4. Limit CEO pay and power – Better Corporate Governance
5. Make Bankruptcy Law better for Student Loans and underwater mortgages
6. End Corporate Welfare and Government Giveaways
7. Legal Reform!?!?!?!?
8. Tax Reform – Higher taxes on the Rich, Fewer Loopholes, higher estate taxes
9. Get rid of for profit schools!

13. 10. HEALTH CARE FOR ALL
11. Curb Asymmetric globalization – currently favorable to capital and not labor
12. Use Fiscal and Monetary Policy to Maintain Full Employment
13. End Trade Imbalances
14. Increase Unionization

14. 15. More Affirmative Action
16. END CORPORATE CONTROL OF CONGRESS – Require everyone to vote!