Fixing America - 14 Solutions for our 21st Century
1. Public Campaign Financing. Buy the politicians or someone else will, such as big business. Right now the constituents of the politicians are big business interests. We need that to change.
2. Tax reform = Increase Revenues. U.S revenues at record lows not seen since 1950's, at 14% of GDP. Higher revenues, lower debt, and more public goods.
3. Defense spending tripled from 1997, needs to be lowered. End wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen.
4. 2008 financial collapse solution = Taxing speculators and taxing Derivatives markets. Reintroduce Glass-Stiegal and other regulations cut in the 90's.
5. FIX HEALTH CARE = 17% of GDP, completely unacceptably high cost. Enact Universal Healthcare.
6. Get rid of Judicial review as it's unconstitutional. If unable, hold Justices more accountable to public.
7. Drug war is a failure, end it. Criminalizing drugs creates black markets.
8. Invest in Jobs and Public infrastructure. Nearly 1 trillion dollars needed to fix existing American infrastructure issues.
9. Foreign Policy: Pressure Israel to create a framework for peace since they seem to be holding back not accepting Obama's 1967 borders with swaps.
10. Immigration: Allow children of Illegal immigrants that were brought here and do well, to have a path to citizenship. Overall immigration reform is also needed.
11. Invest in Renewable Energy solutions aiming for 70%(~2/3) of America's energy to be renewable by 2033.
12. Reform Education and provide Higher education beyond K-12 for all citizens.
13. Prison industrial complex: Make privatization of prisons illegal. Privatized prison systems lead to corruption and the only way to increase profits and lobby to gate more inmates.
14. Re-evaluate trade policies so as not to entice businesses to go overseas. Try to keep a robust trade policy that discourages large trade deficits.
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