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I condensed this from Bernie Sanders website. I tried to list everything that appeared to be a somewhat specific proposal & left out the rhetoric.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
- Demand wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share in taxes
- Stop corporations from shifting profits and jobs overseas to avoid paying U.S. income taxes.
- Create a progressive estate tax on the top 0.3 percent of Americans who inherit more than $3.5 million
- Enact a tax on Wall Street speculators
- Increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2020.
- Increase the tipped minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023
- $1 trillion over five years rebuilding our crumbling roads, bridges, railways, airports, public transit systems, ports, dams, wastewater plants, and other infrastructure needs
- Reverse NAFTA, CAFTA, and PNTR
- $5.5 billion for a youth jobs program
- Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act (women’s pay)
- Tuition free public colleges and universities
- Lift the Social Security earnings cap on taxable income above $250,000
- Enact Medicare for all single-payer healthcare system.
- Require employers to provide at least 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave; two weeks of paid vacation; and 7 days of paid sick days
- Enact a universal childcare and prekindergarten program
- Pass the Employee Free Choice Act (unions)
- Break up large financial institutions (introduced the “Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act,” which would break up the big banks and would prohibit any too-big-to-fail institutions from accessing the Federal Reserve’s discount facilities or using insured deposits for risky activities.)
- End practice of paying big bonuses to bank executives who take senior-level government jobs.
- cap credit card interest rates at 15 percent
- audit the Federal Reserve
- limit the ability of bankers to get rich from taxpayer bailouts of their institutions
- Democracy Is for People constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
- Voted for the DISCLOSE Act (dark money in political campaigns)
- “Citizens United” litmus test for Supreme Court nominees
- Demilitarize police
- Funding for community policing
- Increase civilian oversight of police departments.
- Police forces that reflect the diversity of our communities.
- Establish a new Federal model police training program
- Include activists and leaders from organizations like Black Lives Matter to reinvent how we police America.
- Federally fund and require body cameras for law enforcement officers
- Justice Department to aggressively investigate and prosecute police officers
- Require police departments and states to provide public reports on all police shootings and deaths that take place while in police custody.
- Establish new rules on the allowable use of force by police.
- States and localities that make progress in this area should get more federal justice grant money. Those that do not should get their funding slashed.
- Federal resources to crack down on the illegal activities of hate groups.
- Re-enfranchise voting rights for persons with felony conviction.
- Restore the Voting Rights Act’s “pre-clearance” provision.
- Expand the scope of the Voting Rights Act
- Make Election Day a federal holiday
- Make early voting an option for people who work & students
- Make no-fault absentee ballots an option
- Every American over 18 registered to vote automatically,
- End discriminatory laws and the purging of minority-community names from voting rolls
- Make sure that there are sufficient polling places and poll workers to prevent long lines from forming at the polls anywhere.
- Ban for-profit prisons
- Eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing
- Fund drug courts and medical and mental health interventions for people with substance abuse problems,
- Boost funding for programs that help people who have gone to jail rebuild their lives with education and job training.
- Prevent employers from discriminating against applicants based on criminal history.
- expand, funding for Planned Parenthood, the Title X family planning program, and other initiatives that protect women’s health, access to contraception, and the availability of a safe and legal abortion.
- litmus test for Supreme Court nominees regarding Roe v. Wade & rights of women to have access to family planning services.
- Expand the WIC program for pregnant mothers and infants.
- Expand Social Security benefits by an average of $65 a month; increase cost-of-living-adjustments; and expand the minimum Social Security benefit
- Pass comprehensive immigration reform (no details what this would consist of)
- Oppose tying immigration reform to the building of a border fence.
- Sign the DREAM Act into law
- Expand Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to include the parents of citizens, parents of legal permanent residents, and the parents of DREAMERs
- Authorize and substantially increase funding for the Legal Services Corporation to provide legal representation to guest workers
- Increase prevailing wages that employers are required to pay temporary guest workers
- Rewrite trade policies to end the race to the bottom and lift the living standards of workers in this country and our trading partners
- Climate change (no specific proposals on website but carbon & methane emission taxes, and opposition XL pipeline are mentioned)
