Affordability

  • Economic Rights

    1. Economic Bill of Rights including protections from economic instability

    2. Create a Democratic Economy with Worker Co-ops and Public Banking

    3. Create Fair and Balanced Tax Structure

  • Healthcare for All

    1. Guarantee every American preventative and life saving medical care

    2. Forgive medical debt

    3. Expand coverage to include naturopathy and chiropractic medicines

  • Higher Education

    1. Double Pell Grants and broaden eligibility requirements

    2. Refinance student loans to 1% interest

    3. Streamline university and college administrative bureaucracy

Fairness

  • 1. Insider Stock Trading Ban! Members of congress cannot use insider information for stock trading nor share with anyone outside of Congress. Members of congress cannot trade stocks while serving in congress and members of congress found in violation will be expelled

    2. Ban lobbying for 10 years after service

    3. Term Limits: House members will be limited to 9 terms total. Senators will be limited to 3 terms.

    4. Age Limits: No person who will reach the age of 80 during the duration of the term for the office they seek, will be eligible to run for that office

  • 1. $1.7M from corporate donors and PACs vs. small dollar donations

    2. Funded by Corporations including: SpaceX, Deloitte, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, HP, Verizon, Raytheon, AT&T, L3Harris, and General Dynamic (The last 3 have contracts with ICE)

    3. Takes money from AIPAC

    4. In office since 1991

    5. 20th Century thinking for 21st Century Problems

    6. No action on Special Ed funding that is draining city budgets

  • 1. Trump has committed multiple impeachable offenses including usurping Congressional Power, violating court orders, unauthorized military strikes, deploying military against American civilians, human trafficking, violating the Emoluments Clause, and the list goes on and on

    2. Congress must hold Trump accountable through their power of impeachment

Taking on the Political Class

  • 1. Work with the United Nations to solve global challenges

    2. End NATO role in intervention and promote peace keeping practices

    3. End Free Trade agreements and replace with Fair Trade agreements that benefit America’s Working Class

    4. End Proxy wars with Russian Federation and China, and work towards cooperation and lasting Peace

  • 1. End military intervention abroad

    2. Bring troops home from 750 military bases across the globe

    3. AUDIT the Pentagon

    4. Fully fund Veteran Affairs with imperial war budget savings

    5. Focus military for defensive purposes only

  • 1. Denouncing a Genocide is a moral imperative

    2. We shouldn’t be funding foreign governments that commit genocide

    3. Ending this conflict means more money for our own struggling citizens

    4. Israelis get universal healthcare and education while our citizens suffer

    5. One State solution of a unified Holy Land with equality for all

    6. Nuremberg Trials for Netanyahu Government

Ending the Overseas Empire

  • 1. Publicly funded, good quality, childcare facilities

    2. Excess profit tax on private care facilities 

    3. 6 months parental leave for both parents

  • 1. Every American deserves the minimum amount of housing, water, food, and electricity needed to survive.

    2. Invest in dorm style facilities to create access to housing quickly.

    3. Repossess abandoned homes and properties and subsidize to help people move out of housing dorms

  • 1. End income cap on Social Security (earnings above $184,500 are not taxed)

    2. Tie Social Security benefits to index that guarantees adjustment fully covers the rising costs many seniors face, especially for medical care and housing.

    3. Publicly owned elder care facilities including at home services

Caring for the Vulnerable

Protecting Our Rights As Citizens

  • 1. Codify protections for transgender and gender affirming healthcare 

    2. Codify protections in federal law for healthcare, jobs, rentals, etc

    3. Ban book bans nation wide and establish book ratings similar to ratings for movies to MPAA

    4. Allow trans women in sports

    5. Ban conversion therapy nation wide

  • 1. Rent increase control to yearly inflation

    2. New leases cannot exceed 10% previous lease

    3. Make Rental payments tax deductible

    4. Additional tax on sale of property to investment firms and LLCs

    5. Limit number of rental homes in area owned by single entity

  • 1. Overturn Citizens United and policy that money is speech (Buckley vs Valeo)

    2. Federal Legislation to transition all voting to Ranked Choice Voting

    3. Automatic registration for U.S. citizens upon age 18

    4. No excuse absentee voting

  • 1. Codify Roe vs. Wade

    2. Increase federal funding for abuse and crisis centers

    3. Increase funding to reduce rape kit backlog

    4. Revive efforts to Pass ERA

  • 1. Legislation to abolish private prisons

    2. Legalization of cannabis, decriminalization of other drug possession

    3. Expungement of criminal possession drug records

    4. Reparations and jobs programs for victims of War of Drugs

  • 1. Assault weapons ban

    2. Ending federal ban of gun research

    3. Robust Mental Health services for schools and universities

  • 1. Abolish ICE. Replace with INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services)

    2. Increased funding for immigration judges

    3. Non-intervention policy in Latin America, preventing migrant crises and overwhelming immigration surges

    4. End Imperial and CIA operations in other countries that destabilize countries contributing to increased immigration and conflict

  • 1. Block Police funding from being used to purchase military style equipment

    2. National database of police abuse

    3. End qualified immunity

    4. Crisis Counselors with police escort

Implementing Needed Reforms

  • 1. Aggressively pursue net zero carbon emissions and lead global efforts.

    2.  Strengthen pollution laws (clean air/water).

    3. Prioritize environmental restoration in hardest hit communities

    4. Task force on microplastics and potential solutions.

    5. Refund research in climate and environment.

  • 1. High Speed Rail connecting New London, Hartford, and New Haven to Boston and NYC

    2. Increase funding for city and rural bus routes

    3. Update the electric grid

    4. Update water infrastructure

  • 1. Pay Connecticut Teachers 75k starting salary

    2. Special Federal income tax breaks for public school teachers

    3. Hire enough teachers to keep classroom sizes below 20 students (below 11 for special education classrooms)

    4. Upgrade school infrastructure with modern equipment

  • 1. Increase NIH Budget by 25%

    2. Increase NSF Budget by 25%

    3. Restructure Peer Review process and grant process to increase transparency and access to all publicly funded data

    4. Fees on private industry using federally funded university research data

Funding Needed Investments

Creating a Fair and Modern Workplace

  • 1. 40 hour work week was designed for nuclear family

    2. Return productivity gains of the computer/internet revolutions to the workers

    3. Make all Federal positions 30 hours a week with no loss in pay

    4. Tax incentives for companies that transition to 30 hour work week

  • 1. Jobs trainings programs for individuals who experience job loss caused by new legislation

    2. Enhanced unemployment benefits to individuals who experience job loss caused by new legislation

    3. Ensuring legislation for equitable treatment of small business compared to large business

  • 1. Make all applicable federal positions Work From Home

    2. Tax incentives for companies that have Work From Home positions

    3. Tax incentives for individuals that move to rural areas

Protecting Societal Well-Being

  • 1. Break up all large media companies

    2. Break up all large telecommunications companies

    3. Break up all large corporate conglomerates

  • 1. Regulations to ensure human consumption of water prioritized over AI facilities

    2. Research into affects of AI and Social Media on developing brains

    3. Productivity gains from AI returned to workforce in further work hour reductions or profit sharing

    4. Cancel all federal contracts with Palantir

  • 1. Codify the Fairness Doctrine

    2. Limit for-profit news market and make news a public utility