Despite my high index score, I am not a partisan hack, I think for myself, I criticize both parties (as evidenced by the previous page), and I am willing to compromise. This is a list of important issues I believe both parties can find common ground on.
Read through them, then take the survey below it (if your index score is below 70) to let me know what issues you agreed and didn't agree with! Let's get a lot done! We can do better with taxpayers' time than only producing a farmer's appreciation bill.
- Getting money out of politics
- Immigration reform (pathway to citizenship)
- Ending the War on Drugs
- Breaking up the too-big-to-fail-banks (to eliminate monopolies and increase competition)
- Protecting net neutrality
- Rebuilding our infrastructure
- Raise the minimum wage
- Ending gerrymandering
- Increase the government's cyber security
- Cut taxes for the middle/lower class
- Reduce nuclear stockpiles globally
- Change or eliminate the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) which gave broad and unlimited powers to the Executive to fight terrorism
- Ban arming the worst human rights violators (like Saudi Arabia)
- Stop assisting Saudi Arabia in their bombing of Yemeni civilians and Houthi rebels
- Legislation to stop currency manipulation
- Improve the transparency/process of our drone program
- Make incentives for NATO members to pay their fair share in defense
- Abolish the TSA, let private companies do all the security again
- Lowering college debt
- Carbon pollution tax
- Stop the NSA from spying on citizens without a warrant
- Ending civil forfeiture
- Strong protections from payday lenders and for-profit universities
- Universal background checks for guns
- Ending for-profit Prisons
- Increase funding for mental health facilities
- Presidential Primary Election reform (to end front loading, increase turnout to give candidates who are not extreme a better chance, to let all states have a say instead of mainly Iowa and New Hampshire)
- Ranked Choice Voting (voters can rank the candidates in order of preference. Ballots are initially counted for each elector's top choice. If a candidate secures more than half of these votes, that candidate wins. Otherwise, the candidate in last place is eliminated and removed from consideration. The top remaining choices on all the ballots are then counted again. This process repeats until one candidate is the top remaining choice of a majority of the voters)
- Multi-winner districts instead of single-winner districts (This would result in: Larger and more populous districts; Districts contested by multiple parties and candidates; Legislatures that more proportionately reflect voters' political preferences (like moderates and 3rd parties); Governing by a coalition of parties rather than one single majority party)
- Replacing the ACA with a Medicare-for-all health plan which would provide insurance to all Americans
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