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Enough Division; Let’s Unite and Fight
It’s Time for a Change
We need to get money out of politics and the working families need a fair shot at the American dream!
MY Platform - Working Class families Deserve a Fair Shot at the American Dream
Working Families Bill of Rights - 7 Guarantees:
Personal Healthcare for All
Because nobody should be indebted to their employer just to stay alive; medical bankruptcies shouldn’t exist at all and should not be the number one leading cause of bankruptcy. No one should get between your doctor and your health, especially not politicians in Washington D.C.
Security in American Elections
To secure American elections for American Working Families we need to get money out of politics! We need to institute strict spending caps; stop unlimited corporate spending; get lobbyist money out of D.C.; stop congressional stock trading; and make it illegal to profit from being an elected representative of the people.
Accessible Childcare
Because working parents shouldn’t have to choose between their income and their children. It’s too expensive to raise a child in America, especially places with higher costs of living like in IL-08.
the right to an education
Because a fair economy and good paying jobs starts with accessible education. We have a shortage of experienced tradespeople and blue-collar jobs used to be the number one way into the middle-class, now over 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck; many of us are just struggling to survive, let alone go to school.
Dignity in Work
If you put in a full days work, you should get a fair day’s wage. Work should pay enough to live. If poverty was adjusted for inflation a $15 minimum wage would be below the poverty line – it’s time American workers finally got their fair shot at the American dream.
Affordable Housing For All
We need to build more housing and faster; corporate landlords should not be able to own multiple properties; American houses should belong to the families that live in them.
Safeguarding Our Future Environment
Kids in asthma-alley don’t get a second set of lungs. We need a hard clean-power deadline, affordable electric cars, and a New Civilian Conservation Corps to tear pollution down while building families up - we’ll be launching hundreds of thousands of environmental-focused union jobs. We refuse to hand our children a burning planet and call it “freedom.
How to Pay for it
NO NEW TAXES ON THE WORKING CLASS, THE MIDDLE CLASS, OR SMALL BUSINESSES
Make the 1% pay their fair share - a wealth tax on the top 1%, progressive taxes on those making over $50M
Make Wall Street pay their fair share - Speculation tax on high-dollar trades, tax corporate stock buybacks
Legalize Cannabis - Fully legalize and tax cannabis at the federal level
Automate Debt Ceiling - Stop letting politicians lower America’s credit score by shutting down government