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LeonelBrizola
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« on: December 27, 2021, 03:42:47 PM » |
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« edited: December 27, 2021, 04:53:34 PM by LeonelBrizola »
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Todd Edwards, Senator for Iowa since 2014.
His campaign platform:
- A two-tier universal healthcare system without an individual mandate.
- Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, while allowing small businesses to opt out of it.
- Giving tax breaks for Americans starting new Businesses.
- Decriminalizing marjiuana, but discouraging its use and requiring treatment to pay for healthcare.
- Increasing protection for American manufacturing. Continuing the agressive stance against China.
- Free preschool and community college, and focusing the American education system on trade schools, younger teachers and extracurricular activities.
- Creating a wealth tax on fortunes greater than $500 million.
- Expanding the Earned Income and Child Tax credits.
- Working with Congress to write and pass a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill.
- An orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- Ending late-term abortions and maintaining the Hyde Amendment, while implementing comprehensive sex ed on public schools.
- Gun rights with background checks and keeping guns away from the mentally ill.
- Regulating Wall Street, and closing corporate tax loopholes.
- Fighting climate change through investment in nuclear, wind, solar and geothermal energy, and electric cars, to reach net zero by 2050.
- Banning private prisons and racial profiling.
- Repealing the Taft-Hartley Act.
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