Interactive: You are elected POTUS. What is your agenda for America?

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Strengthen unions, raise wages, reduce the workweek, implement an industrial policy, expand the welfare state.

Those would be my primary goals.

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Since everyone is being rather specific...

1. Repeal Taft-Hartley, Landrum-Griffin, and the Hatch Act in quick succession. Enact significant labor law reform recognizing public, domestic, and agricultural workers' right to organize and collectively bargain, pass the Employee Free Choice Act, establish a contract continuity rule upon the sale of companies, ban the use of strikebreakers ('scabs') during a strike, establish guidelines for industry wide collective bargaining, force companies to comply with a threat of expropriation if they refuse.

2. Double the minimum wage by the end of my second term in office and eliminate all sub-minimum wages. Index growth in the minimum wage to growth in inflation and growth in worker productivity from thereon out. Crack down on wage theft, unequal pay based on sex, unpaid overtime, and the like, while also significantly expanding the reach of laws dealing with those.

3. Reduce the workweek to 32 hours by giving everyone Fridays off with no loss in pay. Readjust the overtime compensation law to provide more overtime pay for time worked, plus require holiday pay across the board.

4. Establish a system of national industrial planning, wherein workers (who would bargain collectively with the industry as a whole) have half the seats on industrial corporate boards and have a lot of decision-making responsibility. Invest heavily in advanced manufacturing, with a bias towards labor-saving devices and 3D printing, i.e. production for use, rather than profit. Withdraw from or force the renegotiation of trade pacts that negatively impact the United States.

5. Implement paid sick leave, paid parental leave, paid vacations, national health insurance, national education (plus equivalent funding for trade schools), and a universal basic income policy. Seek to expand the welfare state, reduce its redundancies, and improve overall quality. Reduce the retirement age to 54 over a period of time and make Social Security benefits more generous. Establish a universal child care program and make mass transit use completely free.

6. Dismantle the New Jim Crow by ending the war on drugs and implementing rehabilitation-based criminal justice procedures and programs. End the death penalty (and life without parole), end prison time for drug users and non-violent offenders, legalize soft drugs, re-evaluate most of the statutes concerning crime already on the books, and seek to reduce recidivism by establishing education and job training programs in prisons.

7. Increase progressivity of the tax code ideally to pre-Reagan levels (or even more ideally to Eisenhower levels), indexed to inflation.

8. Reduce military spending by cutting out wasteful contracting out of services that can be done by military personnel already, cut into the officer corps, automate wherever possible, and increase the pay of rank-and-file soldiers. Reduce the overall military budget to pre-9/11 levels, close foreign military bases and bring our soldiers home, end the War on Terror.

9. Repeal most of the post-9/11 "anti-terrorism" legislation including the PATRIOT Act, the indefinite detention provision of the 2011 NDAA, end the PRISM program, ban the use of torture, and close Guantanamo Bay prison once and for all.

10. Wage an all out war on wealth insofar as possible. Affirmative Action only on the basis of class, nationalize the Ivy Leagues, integrate the rich with the rest of us, and tax the hell out of them. Basically do everything in my power to destroy plutocracy and restore the midcentury 'Blue Collar Republic' that was the United States of America.