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Government:
-Formation of the "economic council" as a third chamber of the legislature composed of representatives for employers associations, unions, coop workers, professionals, agriculture, education, healthcare, and consumers to serve as an advisory board for economic affairs.
-Allow for "recall elections" in which elected Representatives and Senators can be put on a ballot before their term is up, granted that a 20% signature threshold is reached. The President is exempt.
-Implement ranked-choice voting in which all ballots are granted the ability to rank 3 candidates from most favored to least favored. This is intended to prevent "wasting votes".
-Anti-gerrymandering measures, including mandating independent, non-partisan redistricting commissions; ensuring that county/parish lines are left intact where possible; making it illegal to draw lines to receive a partisan advantage.
-Reduce the salaries of all elected officials and appointed heads of agencies; provide free housing and transportation arrangements within the District of Columbia for elected officials.
-Ban the trading of stocks by individuals in Congress.
-Impose limitations on donations for "Super PACs".
-Overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
-Repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force and restore to Congress their constitutional authority to approve military action.
-Make the presidential election a federal holiday
-The state will enable sectoral bargaining and greater union oversight over economic affairs
-Businesses will be required to have union representation on the board of directors as a means to expand the power of workers in company decision making.
-End right to work laws
-Repeal the Taft-Hartley act
-Implement profit sharing in larger enterprises, entitling workers to a share of business profits as a bonus, encouraging greater motivation and initiative.
-Mandate paid leave and family leave,
-Worker cooperatives will be promoted and given tax benefits that will allow for them to better compete in a market economy.
-Nationalization of certain key industries such as energy.
-Return of the Glass-Steagall Act.
-End of stock buybacks.
-Encourage mutual aid organizations, and credit unions as an alternative, and fight to avoid the predatory lending practices.
-Regulations on anti-consumer practices such as planned obsolescence and complicated subscription cancellations, as well as automated calls. In addition, legislation will be passed to promote the right to repair.
-Investments will be made to expand public transportation as an alternative to expanding roads.
-Further legislation to incentivize using nuclear energy as opposed to fossil fuels.
-Carbon taxes on all companies that burn fossil fuels.
-Implementation of a land value tax, a value-added tax, and grant free tax filing to all, repeal of property taxes will also be implemented to encourage land improvement.
-Restore the Civilian Conservation Corps
-Implement a land value tax and vacancy tax, encourage land owners to use land or sell it to someone who will, and prevent companies from buying buildings with the purpose of letting them decay.
-Fund a large-scale program to produce small, affordable homes, convert abandoned buildings, office sites, malls, etc into apartment complexes with affordable rents.
-Repeal Faircloth Amendment.
-Ban corporate purchases of homes and residential areas.
-Promote the existence of housing cooperatives and special tax privileges as well as generous loans with the intention of creating more as a potential alternative to private landlords, in addition to this encourage local communities to develop community land trust.
-Relax zoning laws and needless regulations on the creation of more housing.
-Promote eco-friendly housing such as green roofs, passive homes, etc.
-Provide funding for public transportation to reduce reliance on cars and the need for car-dependent infrastructure, and open cities up to become walkable.
-Cap yearly immigration to 150,000 a year, with exceptions only for skilled workers and highly educated.
-Temporary halt on all immigration from the border for five years.
-Expand size of immigration courts to increase the speed of the vetting process.
-Require an understanding of English and provide programs to educate individuals on speaking fluently once entering the country.
-Expectation that one should assimilate into the country.
-As opposed to deportation, undocumented migrants who are already here will be offered a path to citizenship. Afterwards, illegal immigration will be met with deportation.
-Raise teacher pay, and forgive loans for individuals pursuing education as a career to ease teacher shortage.
-Use increase in size to create more classrooms and reduce the size of each, allowing for more attentive care to each student.
-Provide greater access to trade jobs, which can be a low cost and easy way to enter into a high paying and valuable job.
-End the war on drugs, legalize marijuana.
-Provide greater funding for programs to assist at-risk youth and more funding to schools of marginalized communities.
-Arable land owned by foreign entities(China), and corporations intended to be broken up, will be seized, and then granted to individuals interested about agriculture, this is specifically intended to encourage greater economic self-sufficiency among these groups.
-Regulate lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.
-Prioritize domestic production and industry as opposed to free trade.
-Ban dual citizenship in the government.
-End private prisons.
-Promote programs that will provide inmates with useful technical skills.
-Promote programs intended to make the transition from prison life to public life easier.
-Focus on rehabilitation rather than punishment, end minimum sentencing.
-Break up media conglomerates.
-Reintroduce the fairness doctrine.
-Protect whistleblowers.
-Mandate free speech even in social media.
-Tax sugar and fat.
-Ban explicitly harmful substances such as red40.
-Tax cigarettes and alcoholic beverages.
-Promote physical health and well-being vocally, encourage a greater role of physical education in schools and promote organizations that emphasize physical development.
-Mandate free school lunches for all schools.
-Provide time limits on medical patents, encourage greater competition to drive down prices.
-Paid family leave for parents
-Free marriage counseling.
-Increase federal protections for pregnant women in the workforce.
-tax benefits and financial assistance for having children.
-Return Roe v Wade as law.
-Mandate ID for all states to consume pornography.
-Provide federal protections and assistance for sex workers leaving the industry.
-Equal pay for equal work..
-Removal of the National Firearms act concerning AOW's, suppressors, short barrels, etc.
-Prohibition of federal enforcement of state laws that infringe on the right to bear arms.
-Repeal the ban on interstate hand gun sales.