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Really the last three are the only issues, amd there are ways to specifically address them,
Wage gap, for every twentieth multiple of the median of household incomes in the bottom quintile of all incomes, put a percent increase on the nominal tax rate for income above that 20th multiple, and just keep doing that for every 20th after that, also, start counting loans collateralized on capital assets (sans primary home mortgages, primary vehicle car loans and other socially advanceable loans) as salary income for tax purposes, either in all cases or specifically for loans with interest rates significantly lower than the market sustainable rates for loans for everyone else. That or just ban loans with interest rates below the rate of inflation as "failing fiduciary responsibility by literally throwing money away."
Cost of Living, the nordics have a good model here, not price caps, but caps on how much you're allowed to raise the price annually. I'd say tie it to the federal interest rate, because it'll be a solid limit on price jacking, and it'll also put a pretty intense counterbalance of class interests against the typical instinct to keep rates low forever because house price go up.
If anything, the fact that these problems can be tackled so simply almost makes them more infuriating, it's taking the active effort of knowingly malicious actors to keep these affronts to our rights to a respectable standard of living in place.
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