The Texas energy nightmare is a warning sign of what could happen nationwide, unless working people actively begin the fight for a different society. Capitalism has failed to address climate disaster & created an infrastructure nightmare for most of us & profits for a few.
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After having subjected millions of ordinary people to the misery of days of freezing temperatures & having caused deaths, the millionaires & billionaires are shameless enough to demand that working people pay massive electricity bills.
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We need a democratically planned economy, a socialist economy.
And we need to fight:
- For immediate emergency funding for working people in Texas, paid for by the for-profit utility corporations who created this crisis
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- Cancel all utility bills for working people, struggling small businesses.
- Take these energy companies into democratic public ownership.
- For criminal charges against the energy execs who caused untold misery through profit-driven recklessness
- Ted Cruz must resign
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During the time that Washington state has grown to have the most unequal tax structure in the nation, providing a tax haven to big business and billionaires while instituting and repeatedly renewing and extending hundreds of corporate tax breaks,
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while also doubling down on regressive taxes likes sales, use, property, and vehicle taxes, which disproportionately fall on working people and people living on fixed incomes:
- Democrats have controlled the governor’s mansion 30 out of 30 years
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- Democrats have controlled the Senate 20 out of 30 years
- Democrats have controlled the House 23 out of 30 years
- Democrats have controlled all three centers of government power (“trifectas”) for 15 of those 30 years