mike.editor@midpush.com, updated 190714
Kirsten Gillibrand – Senator from New York.
- Health Care – In 2017 she supported Bernie Sanders Medicare for All bill.
She said in a statement, “Under the health care system we have now, too many insurance companies continue to value their profits more than they value the people they are supposed to be helping. It’s time for something better.” - Immigration Reform – Supports expanding Social Security to those in the country illegally. In Iowa in March/2019 she stated, “First, we need comprehensive immigration reform, If you are in this country now you must have the right to pay into Social Security, to pay your taxes, to pay into the local school system and to have a pathway to citizenship. That must happen.”
- If this were true, and other laws not changed, then the Social Security Administration would become a sanctuary agency. Anybody could get a social security number. It might be fairer. But is this the right way to go?
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- Financial – In the summer of 2018, she stated she supports a tax on financial transactions in the stock market.
- The editor, me, has for years thought this would be a way to calm the markets, and limit day trading, which has no value to our society. A very small tax added to each sell transaction, less then one week old, could help limit useless computer trading that occurs.