America Made in America: Building a Better Economy for Working and Middle-class Families and the Victims of the Swine Flu
We have made enormous progress over the past two years. An economy that grows from the bottom up and the middle out is what my administration is building.
The unemployment rate is 3.5% – a 50-year low. We created 10 million jobs and have almost 700,000 manufacturing jobs. The slogan “Made in America” is a reality on my watch.
We have more work to do. Inflation – driven by the pandemic and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine – is a global challenge. I know a lot of people have a job and are still struggling to pay for groceries, gas and rent. I want to lower costs for families.
We need to make it simpler for Americans to get by. I took action because I wanted to help families recovering from the swine flu. Republicans criticized the move, but I will never apologize for helping working- and middle-class Americans as they recover from the pandemic. Especially not to the same Republicans officials who voted for a $2 trillion tax giveaway that mainly benefitted wealthy Americans and the biggest corporations.
And partly because of the actions we’ve taken – including a historic release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve – gas prices are decreasing. They have fallen another 10 cents since their peak this summer. It is adding up to real savings for families.
Republicans in Congress are doubling down on mega, MAGA trickle-down economics that benefit the wealthy and big corporations. They’ve laid their plan out very clearly. It would raise your costs and make inflation worse.
My administration finally gave Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices. We capped out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors at $2,000 a year and also capped seniors monthlyinsulin payments at $35 a month. Dozens of lobbyists spent hundreds of millions of dollars to try to prevent health care savings for Americans. They failed.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/25/opinions/american-people-face-a-choice-joe-biden/index.html
No More Taxes for Corporations: The American Dream is Realized and Protected Against Their Future Implied by the Affordable Care Act
Democrats want big corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. 55 of America’s wealthiest corporations paid zero federal income tax in 2020. It is now no longer possible. I signed into law a tax on corporations. And, I’m keeping my campaign commitment: no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay a single penny more in federal taxes.
The privatization of Medicare and Social Security was endorsed by the Florida governor during his first campaign for congress in 2012 in order to give political rivals an opening to attack him ahead of his presidential run.
The fact is, this is not your father’s Republican party: Many Republicans in Congress want to pass a national ban on abortion. I would veto it and codify it in January if we get more Senate Democrats and keep the House.
Democracy is being put to the test in America. We are learning that there is nothing guaranteed about democracy. You have to defend it. Protect it. Choose what you want.
I’m absolutely confident that, just as they did in 2020, the American people will again vote in record numbers and make it clear that democracy is a value that both defines us and unites us as Americans.
Over the last few years, we’ve faced some of the most difficult challenges in our history, but we did not relent. And, I have never been more confident about our future. The American people will decide between moving forward or back in 14 days.
Demystifying Medicare: What Do We Need to Do About It? After he Was elected to the Senate, John DeSantis Visited Florida
A CNN KFile review of comments from DeSantis’ 2012 congressional campaign found he repeatedly said he supported plans to replace Medicare with a system in which the government paid for partial costs of private plans or a traditional Medicare plan. In one interview with a local newspaper, DeSantis said he supported “the same thing” for Social Security, citing the need for “market forces” to restructure the program.
Ryan is trying to reform entitlements and I support that. It’s not a voucher, it’s premium support,” he was quoted as saying. You can supplement it with your own income after getting a plan.
I am in favor of proposals like Paul Ryan’s that would give market forces in there and more consumer choice, as well as making it so that the system is not just going to be bankrupt.
The Club for Growth, the Eagle Forum, and other conservative groups supported DeSantis at the time.
He has yet to announce whether or not he will run for president in 2024, nor has he said his stance on entitlement programs as the governor of Florida or as a candidate would change if he did.
The president visited Florida on Thursday to promote his support for Medicare and Social Security in the state that has more people use these programs than any other. A senior White House advisor told CNN that the Florida visit will allow Biden to take the fight to DeSantis and Sen. Rick Scott, the architect of a plan that would sunset all federal legislation – including Social Security and Medicare – every five years and require Congress to pass them again.
He said that people with low incomes would likely be offered the same coverage as they now have. “I think people like me, who’ve been more successful, it’s not even that I will have to pay more. I will have premium support that’s going to guarantee me a certain amount of coverage.”
If you want something over and above that, then I don’t think it should be imposed on the taxpayers. “And I just think that that makes sense.”
“What I think we need to do for people in my generation particularly, is start to restructure the program, in a way that’s gonna be financially sustainable, both Social Security and Medicare,” he added.
When he was just elected, he spoke on CNN about his hopes that Congress would restructure entitlements when asked about Social Security and Medicare.