- Withdraw all troops from Afghanistan
- Withdraw all troops from Iraq
- Withdraw most troops from South Korea
- Cut Defense Spending by 30%
- Make university education free for all that can maintain a suitable GPA. Say 2.0 for undergrad, 3.0 for Masters level and 3.5 for PhD. Admission to a particular school would still be controlled by the school.
- Make community college/vocational training free for all that can maintain some reasonable standard of progress
- Universal single payer health care.
- Drop corporate income tax to 30%
- Change personal income tax brackets to be 10%, 20% and 30% at $50000, $100000 and $250000 respectively with anyone under $25000 paying no income tax
- Phase out of mortgage interest deduction. Existing mortgages will still have the interest deduction honored but mortgages entered into after election day will have only 5 years of tax deduction at which point the deduction will end.
- Elimination of most, if not all, tax deductions.
- Payroll taxes to be paid on all earned income
- Capital gains to be taxed as ordinary income with a lifetime $2000000 exemption.
- Estate tax of 30% with an exemption of $2000000. This can be added to any of the capital gains exemption that has not been used.
- End of software patents
- End of Business Process patents
- Immigration policies that encourage highly skilled people to come here without dealing with a multi-year process
- Enforcement of laws against hiring people without proper immigration status
- Pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers that have been here for 5 or more years.
- "Unskilled" worker visa.
- Elimination of TSA and DHS
- $150Billion over 10 years for public transportation
- $100Billion over 10 years for
- $50Billion/year for k-12 education to be distributed using a strict per-student formula.
I am sure that I will come up with some more points but this is a start.
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