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These are incredibly complex laws and the devil will be in the details. If they’re written poorly, they will fail. And the fact that you’re willing to take time away from the others to do UBI, which delivered less of a benefit than *any* of the others, is troublesome.
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Not one of these laws is likely to be finished in three months. Not the Green New Deal, not Medicare for All. Taking a pledge to work on it, and to be ready to work on it, does not constrain us from working on anything else. For myself, I prefer an ambitious agenda to dithering.
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That’s not the pledge, Liam. Surely you read the pledge you took, didn’t you?
Here it is again:
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(2/2) The pledge calls for the introduction of legislation in the first quarter -- legislation that CAN be passed, meaning, is not an empty resolution. And "introduced" does not mean a bill is in its final form, and I would hope that was clear already.
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Legislation can’t be passed unless it’s complete, Liam. Which means they asked you to pledge to get the legislation done—finished and ready to be voted on and signed into law—by March of your first year in office, should you win.
That required you prioritize it above the others.
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If that is how you read it, okay. That honestly makes no sense to me, but I can agree to disagree on what it means.
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How I read it?! There aren’t multiple ways to read English, dude! It’s clear!
JFC!
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To both and - this is not how we win elections. I challenge both of you to find an issue that you both agree on and think of how we can get it passed. #M4A is an obvious choice, we agree on a lot of issues and cooperation is the only way to win.
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I understand that we all have disagreements on UBI and FJG, but we can still work together on other issues.
It's hard to see where we even have that disagreement, since I'm all for FJG as well. I don't really understand what happened here. :-(
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