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New page: '''Tax Reform''' Prevent large corporations from shifting profits overseas to avoid paying US taxes. Creation of progressive estate tax on the top 0.3 percent of Americans who inherit mo...
'''Tax Reform'''

Prevent large corporations from shifting profits overseas to avoid paying US taxes. Creation of progressive estate tax on the top 0.3 percent of Americans who inherit more than $3.5 million. Increase taxes on capital gains and dividends. Close loopholes on corporate taxes.

'''Jobs and Business Policy'''

Increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 by 2020. Favors the Employee Free Choice Act, a reform that would protect workers' rights to unionize and make it harder for management to threaten unionizing workers. Introduction of legislation to break up big banks that failed in the financial crisis. Clean Energy would create jobs, rebuild america act to create. Proposes harsher regulations on Wall Street

'''Health Policy'''

Guaranteeing healthcare as a right of citizenship by enacting a Medicare for all single-payer healthcare system. Also favors enacting universal childcare and prekindergarten policy. System in which the rich pay more in order to ensure that health care is a right not a privilege. Join the rest of the modern world with universal healthcare. America spends more per person on Healthcare than any other advanced nation in the world, but ends up with less. We must make a morally principled and financially responsible decision to provide universal health care. Creating a plan that would save an estimated $6 trillion over the next decade. Fight to lower prescription drug policies.

'''Drug Policy'''

'''Middle East'''

'''Trade'''

Reversing trade policies like NAFTA, CAFTA, and PNTR that have driven down wages and caused the loss of millions of jobs. Trade policy would focus on restoring jobs to Americans. Stop exports of oil

'''Immigration'''

Dismantle deportation programs and detention centers. Create a way for swift and fair legislative roadmap to citizenship for eleven million undocumented immigrants. Have broad eligibility for citizenship to all non-criminials in the US. In the future establish a reasonable wait for citizenship of 5 years. Regulate the flow of immigrants by modernizing the visa system and rewriting trade agreements. Fight to end for profit prisons that lead to detention of immigrants. Demilitarize the border in order to reduce costs and border deaths. Expand support for refugees.

'''Environmental'''

Seeking to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels by promoting wind and solar energy, placing a tax on carbon pollution. Pursue a nuclear free clean energy policy that will decrease dependence on foreign oil. Ban fossil fuel lobbyists from working in the White House. Ban Arctic oil drilling and offshore oil drilling. Reduce carbon emissions in order to reduce the harmful effects of global warming on the environment.. Opposes the Keystone XL pipeline in favor of banning almost every form of oil or natural gas extraction in America. Believes in 100% clean energy future.
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