S Tier

  • Medicare, Medicaid - (omg what if we stopped letting poor people and old people and old poor people didn't just die because they can't afford healthcare
  • Social Security - classic consumption smoothing, loved by economists and everyone who's ever worked alike

A Tier

  • The Sherman Antitrust Act (original form) - i s2g the worst excesses of capitalism occur when corporations wield state power and this says no thanks (has since been neutered by the judges)
  • SNAP - everyone should have food. no work restrictions PLEASE. being included in farm bills in perpetuity is genius
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 - everyone should be able to vote
  • Obergefell v. Hodges - and have the option to be gay

B Tier

  • The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) - good expansion of medicaid in blue states, but no individual mandate. outlawed preexisting conditions!
  • Pure Food and Drug Act - the FDA is pretty neat but we're still all being poisoned
  • Hart-Cellar immigration reform - YAY immigrants but why only highly educated ones (i suspect i know why)
  • C Tier
  • Obama's 2009 Bailout of the Banks - TOO BIG TO FAIL more like too rigged to JAIL
  • Don't Ask, Don't Tell - probably where we get closeted from, maybe
  • Peace Corps - stop

F Tier

  • PATRIOT Act - please stop reading this fbi :(
  • Section 230 of communications decency act - facebook sucks, twitter sucks. the internet is actually a cesspool
  • Regressive tax cuts - IT NEVER WORKS
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