Bernie Sanders has proposed a federal program to offer a job to every citizen that wants one.

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The question of whether this is the "most targeted use" of the money it will cost is a confusion, because the task to be done is primarily to give poor Americans more money. Different methods can have advantages and disadvantages, but the only way one can cost substantially less is by doing less of the job.

Rather, the challenge is to make sure that these jobs end up contributing useful results to society.

Streaming now gives Big Music Copyright as much money as it got before internet sharing, but musicians are poorer than ever.

What can you do?

* Don't use streaming disservices. Insist on having your own local digital copy, with no DRM, for any music you are going to listen to.

* Campaign to legalize sharing (noncommercial redistribution of exact copies) of all published works.

if the byproduct is to wipe out the major music-owners, so much the better! As parasites on musicians and oppressors of those that listen and share, they are enemies of music.

Redesigning the estate tax could eliminate the irrational stigma and collect more money from the rich.

Mulvaney, saboteur of the CFPB, wants to delete the database of consumer complaints. That's part of the general plutocratist policy of favoring business over the public, and the rich over the rest.

In this case, the excuse is that publishing the complaints isn't perfectly fair to the businesses. That is true, but failing to publish the complaints makes the customers more vulnerable to unfairness by businesses. So the question is, which imperfection is more important?

Under plutocratic rule, the answer is simple: the businesses are more important, and bigger businesses are more important than smaller ones.

It turns out that fraud by voters is as rare in Britain as in the US.