What do you mean by “progressive on economic issues” Parsy?
Tier one: Support social security and medicare. Support wage and hour laws, child labor laws, safety regs, minimum wage laws, unemployment benefits, and workers’ comp. Basic regulations like FDA, FTC.
Tier two,for those who want to walk on the wilder side. Slowly increase minwages to livable wages. Reinstate Glass Stegall. Raise tax rates on wealthy. Regulate derivatives and Wall Street in general.
Tier three, which is where even I start to have fears, stronger tariffs to support American jobs. Increased power for unions. Revise corporate laws to prevent executives from running big companies for their own benefit.
Where I get po’ed at the Libertarian influence is they don’t even want tier one. Tier two, is pretty much a slam dunk IMHO, but I could see discussion there. Tier three would be a big jump that would really have to be done carefully.
FWIW, I also think those who receive welfare should have to work some, period. I also think education spending needs to be cut and education revamped to comport with reality.
parsy, who laid it out.