Banning medical debt from credit reports.
Cracking down on junk fees.
Banning non-competes.
Capping credit card fees.
Negotiating drug prices.
Expanding OT pay.
These Biden policies don't make headlines, but this is what it looks like when government works for the people.
I really really wish these claims were true or at least not misleading.
- medical debt _for single instances under $500_ and _presuming you have insurance_, and this was voluntarily implemented by the godawful credit unions ahead of any government action
- overtime pay is still avoided by the 39.999 hour loophole, and salary
- ticketmaster simply reincorporated junk fees into the main price
- 'negotiating' a price that does not result in a changed price is not a win
/1
- banning noncompetes -- I'm at the intersection of two industries most affected by this, and I'm curious to see if it works once it lands in a court somewhere. In the meantime everyone I know is acting like noncompetes still count. We are all terrified of having to be the person who has that fight in court, potentially on the hook for legal fees and needing the time/savings to _somehow not remain employed_ during and after the fight
/2
@rbreich I'm sorry to get so frustrated by this. I am having a tough time reconciling your history of work in and around government and my understanding of your sensibilities with the posts you make here that seem to be carrying water :(
/fin
@level2wizard @rbreich nobody thinks there are zero caveats or loopholes.
Criticizing policies that haven't even taken effect yet is especially misleading!
Saying you know those outcomes is a bald faced lie.
Ticketmaster can't incorporate the fees into the main ticket price, it's illegal.
That's why the tickets remained the same price and they added fees.
It's called ticket scalping & it's been illegal for decades.
Actually care about people
@Ultraverified @rbreich If you look at #joebiden he has clearly had a long, long, very long time to have done something, anything at all that was meaningful. You really think #joebiden is gonna hit it out of the park next term? Like honestly, type in that keyboard, I believe #joebiden 's best term of his career will be his next term.
I wanna see someone actually say that. Then I'll know what a treasonous leftist clown will look like for the next time.
not much of a Biden fanboy, but I was unaware of this list.
I was already giving him massive props for pardoning the folks who were kicked out of the military for being homosexual.
That’s one of those “it’s about damn time” things, but Biden is the first president with the cojones to actually *do* it.
@rbreich Would be better if they made harsh punishments that fully eliminate junk fees altogether (full repayment of fees plus extra in government fines), removed all unnecessary credit card fees (the APY is enough already), forcibly took & made public domain the patents for the drugs our tax dollars funded the development of instead of allowing corporations to keep profiteering, socialized healthcare instead of just changing reporting, fixed OT loopholes, etc.
It's a lot, but it's not enough.
@rbreich
Q: are these Biden policies or Democrat policies?
Can't the democrats do this, and more, with a younger, more vigorous, more coherent, leader?
stopping genocide?
They dont make headlines because billionaires want to end democracy.
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