What I Am For...

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT POLICIES:

• Treat Gobal Warming as big a threat as an attack on the country.
• Campaign Finance Reform.
• Spending our tax dollars on improving our country's infrastructure.
• Balanced federal budget.
• A government that supports our Veterans better.
• All elected federal officials and federal gov't. workers paying into Social Security as their only retirement plan. Stop offering any other government retirement plan.
• Strong regulations for clean air, clean water and land use.
• Strong gun control.
• Raising the Minimum Wage to $15.00 per hour.
• Immigration Reform.
• Laws guaranteeing women the right to any type of birth control they want.
• Laws guaranteeing women the right to an abortion and ready access to clinics.

HEALTHCARE:

• A Healthcare System like Medicare for everyone (single payer system).

TAX POLICIES:

• Tax incentives for Renewable Energy, and no tax breaks for non-renewable energy companies.
• Raise taxes for everyone back to level when Clinton was President.
• A corporate tax system that sets a minimum of 20% rate on companys' federal tax bill.

MISC.:

• A government that does not start wars.
• A Congress that works in Washington at least 80% of all weekdays.
• A Congress made up of at least 40% women.
• Elected leaders who believe in science based knowledge:

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

John J. Kennedy

Commencement Address, Yale Univ., 1962