A living wage for all. Tax justice requires a levy on financial transactions, wealth and pollution, so that taxes can be reduced on work and families.
Abortion:
The decision should be left up to the woman with no government interference. "We should work toward preventing the necessity of abortion."
Health care:
Universal single-payer healthcare on the Canadian model.
Workers rights:
Revoke Taft-Hartley Act, strengthen rights of workers to form unions without company interference.
Social Security / Pensions:
No privatization of SSA. Real control by workers over their pension moneys.
Families:
Paid leaves for infant care and family illnesses, a national daycare system like in Europe, a Marshall Plan for poor children.
Logging / Mining:
End all logging on national forests and other federal lands. Revoke 1872 Mining Act.
Elections:
Easier voter registration, state-level binding initiatives and referendum, public financing of campaigns, free TV and radio time for qualified candidates, term limits not to exceed 12 years.
Military spending / Nuclear weapons:
Cut the budget by $100 billion, demobilize our troops in Europe and East Asia. Supports the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and prompt phase-out of nuclear power, opposes the dumping of nuclear waste.
Industrial hemp:
Full legalization.
Federal Reserve:
Replace Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan with a central banker who would aggressively represent the interests of workers.
Native Americans:
Full tribal sovereignty and settlement of land claims, clemency for Native American Leonard Peltier, protection of Native intellectual and other property rights.
Public schools:
"They are the public responsibility. You cannot mix public functions with commercial functions. All these so-called donations come with a price, a restraint." He supports the removal of all corporate-sponsored aid to public schools Ð including donated computers.
Standardized testing of students:
"It leads to standardized thinking, to standardized curriculum, to standardized expectations, and they don't test the real important things about students: their judgement, their creativity."
Lesbian / Gay rights:
"[They] should have full civil rightsÉ" including the right of civil union.
Transportation:
"Bold new investments are needed to create a modern mass transit system conducive to livable cities, Éwhich will Écombat the momentum toward sprawlÉ."
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