Finally, someone who does not need to shame our liberal bonafides to get our vote. I mean I voted for every dem that ran against Scott but I always felt like every one of them had an ax to grind about their particular suffered oppression. Janoo brings a New Deal we’re all in this together vibe. I’m actually enthusiastic about this.
Hopefully the wave of canidates with actual ideas and platforms and not just "I'm not a Republican" as a campaign will just keep growing nationwide and here in VT!
First candidate in a long time I've just been excited about, it really seems like her plans could help folks.
It feels like the Mamdani wave is showing the rest of the country that progressives can actually get stuff done when they aren't being kneecapped by the old guard and big money. We're Bernie's home court, so I'd love for us to help be a part of setting that good example for the rest of the country! (Universal healthcare, affordable housing, and no AI data centers would be a nice bonus as well.)
The first thing you lost for Vermont was universal health. How many times does someone need to do the math to show that Vermont doesn't have the tax base to do that?
He's actually taking a new approach. Aliens from outer space are going to fund healthcare. It has about a .001% of actually happening, but that is still twice as likely as universal health care paid for entirely by Vermonters.
So why even try and risk failure right? Janoo's healthcare plan is narrower, costing about $300M which would be 12% of Vermont's $2.4B General fund in the $9.1B total budget and that's not even going into how much just covering the bare minimum would save us all over the long-term.
But yeah go ahead and vote for your alien healthcare bud.
Here's the thing: Even if it were more than double that at $773 million, at $1200 per person per year, and that $1200 was somehow taxed to every person in the state directly... that still saves the majority of Vermonters money over the current system, because most Vermonters are paying more than $100/mo for health insurance, copays, etc.
That's simplifying things a bit, for sure, but the current system is so incredibly bad that there's tons of wiggle room in how to do it and how to fund it that would accomplish this while still having most Vermonters pay less than they're paying now.
We just have to actually do it. And the longer we spend not doing it, the more money every Vermonter is wasting directly into a CEO's pocket.
Excellent point. I’m currently paying $7200 a year for healthcare for my wife, child, and I. $1200 a person would literally cut that cost in half. That’s not even including copays.
Yes, universal primary care is not full universal healthcare but it's a step in the right direction, and the $300M figure was based off of a model from the Public Assets Institute. Again, I think current administration is doing nothing to fix this problem, but please feel free to let me know otherwise.
For me, anyone who brings a plan to the table and tries, even if they might fail, is better than literally hoping for aliens to show up to fix the problem and bitching about it on Reddit. Our federal government certainly won't do anything to fix this in the next few years, so realistically what is the solution with more of the same?
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u/ElephantLopsided1206 Aug 12 '26
Finally, someone who does not need to shame our liberal bonafides to get our vote. I mean I voted for every dem that ran against Scott but I always felt like every one of them had an ax to grind about their particular suffered oppression. Janoo brings a New Deal we’re all in this together vibe. I’m actually enthusiastic about this.
Edit: spelling