Policies
Voting Reform
Abolish plurality voting - also known as first past the post. Use any system that chooses the head-to-head winner or maximizes voter preference.
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Tax Reform
Progressive tax on excessive wealth. Phase out income tax in favor of payroll taxes. Vice taxes. Everyone pays taxes, including churches. Uniform taxpayer credit for citizens.
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Justice Reform
Abolish for-profit prisons. If I get paid when you go to prison, guess what! You go to prison.
Abolish the unconstitutional and unconscionable practice of civil asset forfeitures.
Focus on restitution and rehabilitation.
Separate the police force into safety officers who contact the public; and force warriors who neutralize violent threats to the public.
Justices have term limits. Use the Federal Reserve as a model.​
Drug misuse is a health issue, not a crime.
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Gun Management
People may carry any type of weapon they wish. Misuse of a firearm is a capital offense. Establish very clear behavior rules that distinguish a good guy with a gun from a bad guy with a gun. Primarily this will be separation between finger and trigger.
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Health Care
European style health care free at point of service. Funded by payroll taxes. You get to see a doctor. Treatments are cost effective.
Can be augmented by private insurance. You get to see your doctor. You get a private hospital room.
Drug misuse is a health issue, not a crime.​
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Social Security
Phase it out in favor of the Uniform taxpayer credit.
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Welfare
Phase out cash payments in favor of the taxpayer credit. Food kitchens - no questions asked. Minimal housing for the cost of keeping it clean and not having more children.
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Immigration
The deal for immigrants is perceived to be too sweet. Sour it.
There are no illegal people. There are only citizens, permanent residents (e.g. granted asylum), future citizens, probationary residents (seeking asylum or non-citizen residents in good standing), and visitors (including guest workers). People other than citizens and permanent residents may be deported for criminal behavior.
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Immigration
The deal for immigrants is perceived to be too sweet. Sour it.
There are no illegal people. There are only citizens, permanent residents (e.g. granted asylum), future citizens, probationary residents (seeking asylum or non-citizen residents in good standing), and visitors (including guest workers). People other than citizens and permanent residents may be deported for criminal behavior.
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Free Speech
Restore and update the fair-and-balance doctrine. War on fake news. Crack down on hate speech.
Categorize speech: news (facts), opinion (valid interpretation of facts), entertainment and religion, and harmful speech (punishable).
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Reproduction
Contraceptives are part of health care.
As long as an in-womb person (fetus, embryo) is dependent on their host (mother) for survival, the host (mother) may terminate the pregnancy for any reason without ostricization from society.
A pregnancy is a living human inside of and properly attached to the uterus of another living human with every expectation both with thrive postpartum. Any state not satisfying those criteria is not a pregnancy. It is a medial condition. It is embarrassing we need to explicitly say this.
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Rule of Law
Everyone has equal protection and equal binding under the law. It is embarrassing this has to be a stated policy.
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International Units
It is ridiculous to claim exceptionalism when we're using archaic units to measure our greatness.
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Foreign Policy
To the degree it's feasible, restore America's favored trade status and our soft power.
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Energy
Focus on renewables and nuclear power. To do otherwise is foolhearty.
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Education
Pay teachers more than we pay prison guards. Subsidize public education. Subsidize merit based higher education.
Promote fact based policies, science, technology, and research.
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