10 policies I'd pursue if elected President

[BushKerry04]

What would you do if elected President? Here is what I'd do:

1. Enact H.R. 25, the Fair Tax Act: This law would repeal taxes on income, payroll, and capital gains in exchange for a 23% consumption tax on new goods and services. To ensure people aren’t taxed for necessities, people would receive a tax prebate (as opposed to a rebate) based on family size up to the poverty level each month. While the Fair Tax is designed to be revenue-neutral, it would undoubtedly lead to more savings, investment, productivity, and job creation.

2. Reverse the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate & return to the gold standard: In the 1970s, the U.S. abandoned the gold standard and Congress increased the Federal Reserve’s power by giving the central bank a mandate to minimize both inflation and unemployment. The 1970s and the past two decades have seen the failures of such policies. I would encourage Congress to repeal the Fed's dual mandate and return the U.S. to the gold standard in the interest of promoting a stronger dollar, sustained economic growth, and reducing wealth inequality.

3. End foreign policy adventurism & support our troops and veterans: It’s time to end undeclared foreign entanglements, bring our troops home, and use the financial savings to do more to support our troops, veterans, and their families as well as reduce government spending. That includes increasing troop pay, increasing veteran’s health care choice, and doing more to provide for mental health services.

4. Cut spending: In addition to what I mentioned in #3, it’s time for serious entitlement reform and to dramatically reduce government spending. I'd work to increase the Medicare eligibility age for healthy adults from 65 to 70, raise the social security retirement age by five years, means test social security, and give block-grant Medicaid to states.

5. Immigration reform: I would push for immigration reform that increases the number of legal immigrants we welcome into the U.S. each year based partially on family unification, but also on how many foreign workers American companies want to hire, allows 110,000 individuals with legitimate asylum claims to be granted asylum in our country each year, establishes a temporary guest worker program, allows undocumented immigrants already in our country who haven't committed a crime to apply for a pathway to legal status so long as they pay a fine, deports undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes once they served their prison sentence, and allows people who were brought to our country as undocumented immigrants while minors to apply for citizenship. All of these things would be subject to background checks, and I would continue to support border security though not a wall.

6. Improve our infrastructure: I would push for a $500 billion infrastructure bill that would focus on improving our roads and pipes in an environmentally conscious way. I'd pay for this proposal by cutting spending as opposed to increasing taxes or through deficits.

7. Strengthen civil rights: I would increase penalties for those who violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act of 1963. Additionally, I would support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

8. Repeal all laws and directives that increase executive power beyond what is stated in the U.S. constitution.

9. Appoint judges who strictly interpret the constitution regardless of their political party

10. Repeal Dodd/Frank

[Schiff for Senate]

THE PRESIDENT'S 6 POINTS OF REFORM & REGULATION FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE NATION:

Seriously combat gun violence. With Republican Party politicians who are the minions & slaves of the National Rifle Association, nothing but "thoughts and prayers" have been offered to reduce the gigantic number of deaths caused by constant mass shootings across the country. Now it is time for sweeping gun control measures to ensure a decrease in gun violence: a complete, total and permanent ban on assault weapons; national red flag laws; background checks for guns, including at gun shows; a waiting period of one week; a national register of all guns purchased and to whom; a significant tax on guns; ban on semi-automatic and automatic rifles; the disallowing of anyone with a criminal record or who is on the terrorist watch list from ever purchasing a gun; a limit on the guns that can be purchased by one person; a national register of all gun shops (any gun shop not nationally registered will be shut down and fined, with all firearms confiscated, and gun trafficking will be heavily investigated by the FBI). Any person or shop found to be noncompliant with any of the above regulations will (if it is a person) be banned from purchasing any more guns and the government will confiscate all their firearms, or (if it is a shop) be shut down and heavily fined or even prosecuted. All semi-automatic or automatic rifles currently owned will be confiscated. Anyone found to be in possesion of either of the aforementioned firearms will be killed via lethal injection. There will also be regulations on the sale or purchase of bullets - no one person will be allowed to purchase more than 10 bullets at any one time. Any adult found to be allowing minors to be using any firearms will be arrested and will never be allowed to get firearms again, with all firearms confiscated. Malls, restaurants, schools, and shops must require all customers/students/anyone else entering to pass a detector to find any firearms. Concealed carry will be federally banned and anyone carrying a concealed firearm will be fined or arrested (on a case-by-case basis) and, in some cases, prohibited from purchasing any more firearms, with current firearms being confiscated. In order to prevent obstructionism from NRA-owned legislators, all above laws, rules, requirements, restrictions and regulations will be passed on a national basis, by executive order.

Significant steps will be taken to combat a great threat to our nation and the world - climate change. Again, the Republican legislators are largely owned by oil and coal executives. With many Republicans questioning the legitmacy of multiple scientific findings and much evidence and proof, and refusing to accept even the premise of climate change, it is time for national laws on this issue. For starters, the United States will be entering all current and future multinational agreements and groups to internationally combat climate change. It will self-impose both a national carbon cap, and a cap on carbon emmissions on a state-by-state basis, that will be auto-renewed every six months. Any state found to have not met its carbon caps will be forced to miss out on the next national perk (for example, if there is a bill on infrastructure, and the states of Wyoming and West Virginia did not meet their carbon requirements, they will be excluded from all perks decreed by that bill, while the other 48 states will be included). The nation as a whole will invest greatly in solar and wind power, and will commit to have at least 70% of its energy be renewable by the year 2050. Corporations that emit greenhouse gases will be facing additional taxes and fines, based on the scale and nature of the offense.  Similar to a Green New Deal - the government will employ people (with a salary of $20 an hour) to plant trees and go diving in the nation's lakes and rivers to extricate trash and/or plastic. Polluting will be heavily frowned upon and regulated. Plainclothes government officials will be monitoring areas to see pollution, and violators of the regulations will pay a fine of $100 on the first offense, $250 on the second offense, and $500 and working for the government (for free) for 48 hours to plant trees and extricate trash and plastic from the ground and water. Hunting any endangered species currently alive in the United States will be banned, and violaters will be forced to pay anywhere from $3000-$10000 for their first offense and anywhere from $10000 and $15000 and anywhere from a week to a month in jail, for future offenses. More land will be nationally preserved, with more parks created, wherein all hunting will be banned. Brutal treatment of animals being slaughtered and then eaten will be regulated as well. Any company releasing any carbon emmissions will have to pay a fine, depending on the scale of carbon emmission.

To increase the federal revenue, cannabis will be legalized but heavily, heavily taxed on a federal basis - so that the non-addicts lay off it or pay a lot of money, and the addicts get what they want but at a big price.

The national minimum wage will be increased slightly, to $8, and will then be increased every third year by another 25 cents.

States will be forced to adopt, on a state-by-state basis, either a single-payer healthcare system (that is, the state insures the population), privatized healthcare but with regulations, or socialized healthcare. Voters will vote for one of the three in each state and whichever system garners a plurality will be adopted statewide.

Affirmative action will be banned at the federal level and colleges/businesses will be asked to adopt a system of colorblindness in evaluating applications.

[progressive85]

1. End the sex-based requirement that all young men in this country register for the military draft.  It's sexist and has absolutely no place in today's world.  It makes literally no sense at all anymore to do that still.  So that would be gone right away.

2. Create a huge series of town halls across the country (not just in cities but in small towns) to talk about what we're going to do to make life more affordable.  How do we get people good paying jobs to compete in this new Gilded Age we're living in?  Does there have to be winners and losers or can we all be winning?

3. Massive government reform - term limits for members of Congress and the federal courts.  Lower the voting age to 16 and get civics and voting drives into every high school.  Gerrymandering is federally outlawed, maybe by constitutional amendment.  Other things too, like tying the congressional salary to the median salary of the representative's district.

4. Voting Rights, once and for all.  Establish a clear right to vote for any person in this country that's of age.  Make it a constitutional right that even the Supreme Court cannot overturn.  Put in place very strict laws that ban states from interfering with voting rights or making it harder for people to vote, especially those in historically marginalized communities.  Just a complete overhaul there.

5. Add sexual orientation and gender identity to every single anti-discrimination law at the federal level and codify both Loving vs. Virginia and Obergefell vs. Hodges into law, banning states from having race or sex based restrictions on the right to obtain a civil marriage license (I'd love for it to be a constitutional amendment).

6. An anti-bullying and suicide prevention law, possibly tied to a comprehensive sex education bill that would provide extra federal funds to school districts that took it upon themselves to actually teach kids how to be safe and protect themselves, moving away from the abstinence-only education and towards a much more realistic 21st century concept.  This would I feel also reduce the abortion rate significantly.

7. The Climate Security Act, framed as a national defense and security law, that fortifies coastal areas and addresses the issue of climate change in a way that can get conservatives on board, especially those representing districts where it is going to definitely be a problem going forward.

8. A jobs training law that pushes forth the idea that not all high school seniors need to go to college and that for those that want solid, good-paying jobs in industries that really do want the workers, such as HVAC or construction or anything to do with science, mechanical things, technology - that they can just go for it and get their training... basically to reduce the number of kids going to college that don't need to go, saving so much in debt that would be taken on for the future generations.  Maybe call it the Blue Collar, Working Class Jobs and Training Youth Act or something.  Promote it heavily in Pennsylvania, Ohio, WV, KY, and throughout all of the Appalachian states and the Midwest.

9. For all the others that would like to go to college not just to get laid and get drunk, but to actually go for the academics - make tuition a publicly funded thing and pay for the damn textbooks, and just give the kids an extra boost in this world because they are going to need it.  The political will can be there for something like that because all of the states, even states like Wyoming and Idaho, have a lot of kids in them that would benefit greatly from making education no longer elitist, but egalitarian.

10. Mandatory Holocaust education in every single school that receives federal funds.  They all need to learn about the rise of Nazi Germany, what produced Hitler in the first place, everything that happened in those concentration camps because it's very important that it be seen and heard.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

1. Universal Health Care (lower costs from the government negotiating prices and less uninsured people driving up premiums. Not to mention this would increase business entrepreneurship and help small businesses in general as companies wouldn't have to take health care costs into the mix).

2. Cut taxes for all Americans making less than $400,000 per year while raising them on those making more than $1,000,000. (This is because cutting taxes for regular people stimulates the economy via increased spending on goods and services while cutting taxes for the rich means the money just goes to offshore bank accounts and tax shelters).

3. Introduce a system where corporations get tax cuts via providing good things for employees, like a $1,000 deduction for granting paid parental leave, for example.

4. Tax small businesses as corporations.

5. Introduction of corporate tax brackets.

6. Introduce a '25% at 10 years' pension for servicemembers.

7. Increase investment in infrastructure at the federal level while giving tax breaks and grants to municipalities that do local investment in infrastructure.

8. Build a wall at the Mexican border to stop the flow of drugs while increasing the number of asylum spots available and increasing the number of immigration judges to expedite claims.

9. Require police officers live near their patrol area along with banning choke holds.

10. Give enlisted members of the military a 10% raise and officers a 5% raise.


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