These are a few of my favorite things:
====General==== * True separation of church and state. Take the religion label off of churches, organizations, and people. Base tax-exempt status on being a charitable organization. Base laws on non-religious grounds (no more religious exemptions). Allowing religious exclusions is making laws regarding religion.
* Universal healthcare. The right to decent medical care should not be dependent on what state a person lives in.
* Gun safety and sane gun laws. No more BS about one untrained person being a militia (state national guards are militias).
* Adjustment of payroll taxes and salary caps to fully fund Social Security (used to be routine) with no more raising retirement ages and cutting benefits. It should be illegal to claim that fixing federal deficits and National Debt requires Social Security reform.
* Fair taxation (stop shifting the burden of taxation onto the middle class and the poor).
====Government====
* 60 vote minimum for confirmations (with at least 1 vote from the other party?) and with the right to bring nomination confirmations to a floor vote (no more McConnellisms).
* Free (or affordable) education. Part-time work used to be sufficient to secure higher education at most colleges.
* No more for-profit prisons.
* No more for-profit courts and modern debtors' prisons.
* No voter suppression, especially suppression under the guise of election integrity.
* No gerrymandering.
* No Electoral College (which is winner-take-all in some states and votes in some states worth more).
* Required standards for implementation of any election integrity laws, secure (tamperproof?) election machines and mandatory counting with time limitations of absentee ballots, military ballots, and provisional verified ballots.
* Reimplementation and updating of the Voting Rights Act.
* An implementation of truth in advertising laws for elections.
* Campaign finance reform.
* No undisclosed or "delayed" revelations of names of donors to campaign funding.
====Economic====
* An end to corporations as people except for economic purposes.
* Simplified contracts and agreements, no arbitration clauses, no unfair hidden clauses.
* No hiding profits off-shore. If a company makes a profit in this country, that profit should be taxable, and it should not matter what country a company is headquartered in. What happens in the U.S. should be taxable in the U.S.
* An end to corporate subsidies and corporate welfare.
* An end to corporations relying on public assistance for underpaid employees (a form of corporate welfare). In other words, livable wages.
* CEO's and governing boards to be civilly and criminally liable for corporate misbehavior (shared responsibility - not immunity).
* An end to vulture capitalism (or much greater regulatory control and oversight) with its theft of company assets and pawning off of pensions to underfunded government agencies.
====FDR Version====
Implementation of FDR's second bill of rights or a modern version of it:
* The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
* The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
* The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
* The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
* The right of every family to a decent home;
* The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
* The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
* The right to a good education.
Article I, Section 8, United States Constitution:
"The Congress shall have power to...provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States."
Combine the two and we have the progressive view.
====General==== * True separation of church and state. Take the religion label off of churches, organizations, and people. Base tax-exempt status on being a charitable organization. Base laws on non-religious grounds (no more religious exemptions). Allowing religious exclusions is making laws regarding religion.
* Universal healthcare. The right to decent medical care should not be dependent on what state a person lives in.
* Gun safety and sane gun laws. No more BS about one untrained person being a militia (state national guards are militias).
* Adjustment of payroll taxes and salary caps to fully fund Social Security (used to be routine) with no more raising retirement ages and cutting benefits. It should be illegal to claim that fixing federal deficits and National Debt requires Social Security reform.
* Fair taxation (stop shifting the burden of taxation onto the middle class and the poor).
====Government====
* 60 vote minimum for confirmations (with at least 1 vote from the other party?) and with the right to bring nomination confirmations to a floor vote (no more McConnellisms).
* Free (or affordable) education. Part-time work used to be sufficient to secure higher education at most colleges.
* No more for-profit prisons.
* No more for-profit courts and modern debtors' prisons.
* No voter suppression, especially suppression under the guise of election integrity.
* No gerrymandering.
* No Electoral College (which is winner-take-all in some states and votes in some states worth more).
* Required standards for implementation of any election integrity laws, secure (tamperproof?) election machines and mandatory counting with time limitations of absentee ballots, military ballots, and provisional verified ballots.
* Reimplementation and updating of the Voting Rights Act.
* An implementation of truth in advertising laws for elections.
* Campaign finance reform.
* No undisclosed or "delayed" revelations of names of donors to campaign funding.
====Economic====
* An end to corporations as people except for economic purposes.
* Simplified contracts and agreements, no arbitration clauses, no unfair hidden clauses.
* No hiding profits off-shore. If a company makes a profit in this country, that profit should be taxable, and it should not matter what country a company is headquartered in. What happens in the U.S. should be taxable in the U.S.
* An end to corporate subsidies and corporate welfare.
* An end to corporations relying on public assistance for underpaid employees (a form of corporate welfare). In other words, livable wages.
* CEO's and governing boards to be civilly and criminally liable for corporate misbehavior (shared responsibility - not immunity).
* An end to vulture capitalism (or much greater regulatory control and oversight) with its theft of company assets and pawning off of pensions to underfunded government agencies.
====FDR Version====
Implementation of FDR's second bill of rights or a modern version of it:
* The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
* The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
* The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
* The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
* The right of every family to a decent home;
* The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
* The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
* The right to a good education.
Article I, Section 8, United States Constitution:
"The Congress shall have power to...provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States."
Combine the two and we have the progressive view.
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