Long story short: tell our government to break up United Health, force corporations to disclose stock buybacks, and stop putting would-be immigrants in solitary confinement. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
Demand Progress helps you tell our Justice Department to break up United Health, which now owns so many surgery centers and doctors’ practices that one might almost think they’re trying to gain control over all of health care! And we have laws against that, even if the Biden Administration is the first Administration to enforce them in almost 50 years. If United Health gets enough power, they’ll be able to jack up health care prices on everyone, and no corporation should have such power. Did I mention that United Health faces accusations of overbilling Medicare? Another way of putting that would be “stealing from the taxpayer,” i.e., you.
Take On Wall Street helps you tell our Securities and Exchange Commission (or SEC) to propose a vigorous stock buyback disclosure rule, so that everyone can see which big corporations are actually investing in their products and which are just concentrating power in fewer and richer hands. Our SEC has already proposed such a rule, but our Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals – the one overrun with Trumpholes – struck it down. Still, why should our SEC give up? Surely we can enact a rule that protects good Americans and passes muster with appeals courts. We’re the can-do country, after all. Or we’d better be.
Finally, Win Without War helps you tell the Biden Administration to end solitary confinement in ICE detention centers. Mr. Biden has actually ratcheted up solitary for would-be immigrants, and why? To prove he’s “tougher on immigration” than Donald Trump? How many times must I tell these pimps! Right-wingers will never reward liberals for appeasing them! And treating people like human beings always strengthens a civilization, no matter how many isolated anecdotes about “taking advantage of the system” right-wingers advance. Civilization had better be more than a sum of outrage-inducing anecdotes.
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