Middle Class Tax Cuts

Middle Class America is feeling the pinch of high inflation and low wages. We have to find ways to deliver more tax relief directly to middle and working class families.

Immigration Reform

Legal immigration helped build this country and is critical to our economy. We need comprehensive immigration reform that creates a path to citizenship in the fields where we need workers. Immigrants should not live in fear. We want to allow them to pay, and benefit, from taxes like all Americans.

Protecting Social Security

Social Security must be there for our seniors. Social Security must keep up with the rising cost of housing, healthcare, and prescription costs. Americans worked for decades to earn those benefits. We have a duty to make sure that money is there for our seniors in retirement.

Support Veterans

Many Veterans have to wait for months to access their earned benefits. We must fund the Veterans Administration and provide the resources they need to help our Veterans get timely access to their earned benefits. We have to streamline and modernize the delivery of services. We must support Veterans as they transition into the civilian workforce.  We need to protect them, they risked their lives to protect us. 

Living Wages 

We should work to create as many living wage jobs as possible in America. When we put more money in the hands of the people who are most likely to spend it we stimulate growth in our economy and reduce welfare payments.

End Prohibition on Cannabis 

Americans have been clear they want cannabis legalized. We must legalize the industry, regulate it for safety, tax it for revenue. Legalization will generate billions of dollars of economic activity and allow for the expansion of the cannabis industry.

Strong Public Schools

America needs strong public schools because they educate our workforce. We should pay our teachers and support staff living wages, give them reasonable class sizes, provide safe schools, and feed the kids so they can focus on learning instead of worrying about when they might eat again. 

We need to strengthen support for our trade schools and community colleges. Find ways to reduce and relieve student loan debts for the millions of Americans who acquired those debts trying to improve their economic conditions only to find wages haven’t grown as quickly as inflation. Let’s not shame them for trying to climb the economic ladder, let’s solve the problem. 

Grow the Economy

Americans are working harder and longer and they are struggling to make ends meet. We want what we’ve always wanted, a decent job that allows us to provide for our families. Let’s focus on delivering an economic environment that creates those opportunities for more Americans. 

Let’s define an “independent contractor” to stop the misclassification of employees as contractors to deny them unions or benefits. We must enforce labor law.

American workers need paid time off.  We need to be able to take a few days off work when we have the flu or a baby. Men need family leave too. 

Develop incentives that help strengthen small and mid size businesses to enable them to provide benefits to their employees. 

Respect Privacy – Let Women Choose

Women must have the right to choose. Americans should have the freedom to make medical decisions for themselves. We have a right to demand privacy from the government.  No American should be denied the care they need because of an intrusive government.

Reforming Democracy

Require news broadcasters to report both sides of controversial issues. There was a time this was required and politics were far less partisan. When people see all sides of the issue we are more likely to focus on how to fix problems instead of who is to blame for them.

Create a 90-day window for filling Supreme Court vacancies to reduce opportunities for partisan shenanigans. 

Establish concrete dates and conditions for redistricting in every state for federal maps. No more gerrymandering for partisan advantage.

Eliminate the electoral college. Change to a popular vote for president.

Define a limited election period where candidates can advertise to voters to reduce voter fatigue. End Citizens United.

Establish a mandatory retirement for Senate, Congress, and Presidency. 

Healthcare

Americans need us to aggressively target waste, fraud, and abuse in the healthcare system. We also need to provide a public option or Medicare for All for every American. This relieves burdens on employers, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth. Employers who want to continue to offer existing plans can do it.

American doctors, nurses, and hospitals need us to solve Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues, streamline processing, and generally make it easier for them to focus on patient care. 

Emerging Technologies

Innovation is essential to America’s future. Technologies like blockchain are rapidly evolving, with the potential to drive economic growth, create jobs, level the playing field for everyday Americans, and strengthen America’s leadership in financial technology. At the same time, artificial intelligence is opening a new frontier in how we work, learn, and solve complex problems. The coming years are filled with promise and opportunity that, with the right leadership, can mean better lives for all Americans.

But without clear rules, bad actors can exploit these technologies and harm consumers. We must support innovation while putting in place commonsense safeguards that ensure these tools are used ethically and responsibly. Technologies like blockchain offer the potential to increase trust, transparency, and efficiency. America must lead the world in artificial intelligence and we need to keep our entrepreneurs in this space at home.

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