Excellent post.
You offering to pay higher prices for goods and services is just plain backwards. You’re placing the burden of lifting the working poor on the shoulders of the low and middle class.
What needs to happen is to raise taxes to pre-Reagan levels and eliminate tax subsides to thriving industries. The tax child credit should also be eliminated for a savings of 52 billion dollars. That money could be used to feed the hungry and help give a hand up to those in need. Incentives for off-shoring need to be removed.
I managed to stay out of that rumble, but couldn't stop myself on this one.
And I also apologize for any assholiness on my part. I just get steamed when the victims are always being blamed for problems over which they have no possible control. I was brought up by, and around, poor but very hard-working people. I know for a fact it's not their fault. Blaming them for their condition is like blaming the rape victim.
I despise rapists.