Economic Policy
Alcohol / Cigarette Taxes: Greatly increase.
Balanced Budget: Position unknown.
Capital Gains/Inheritance/Dividends/Estate Taxes: Greatly increase capital gains taxes.
Campaign Finance Reform: Supports taxpayer funding for candidates who comply with spending limits; wants to raise spending limits for candidates who receive matching funds; wants to ban PACs, soft money and 529s. Wants Election Day to be a national holiday.
Charity/Child/Earned Income/Student Loan/Medical/Mortgage Tax Credits: Slightly increase Earned Income Tax.
Corporate Taxes: A fundamental reappraisal of our tax laws should start with a principle that taxes should apply first to behavior and conditions we favor least and pinch basic necessities least. Under this approach we would tax the clearly addictive industries (alcohol and tobacco), pollution, stock speculation, gambling, extreme luxuries, taxing work or instead of food, furniture, clothing or books.
Energy Independance: Invest in a diversified energy policy including renewable energy like wind and other forms of solar power, more efficient automobiles, homes and businesses -- one that breaks our addiction to oil, coal and atomic power.
Federal Income Tax: supports a fair tax where the wealthiest and corporations pay their Share --- tax wealth more than work; tax activities we dislike more than necessities.
Gasoline Tax: No position recorded.
Free Trade: Human and worker rights records should effect our trade with nations and trade agreements should be written to protect worker's rights.
Job Creation: No position recorded.
North American Free Trade Agreement: Does not support.
World Trade Organization: Does not support.
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Foreign Policy
Afghanistan: United States should increase aid to Afghanistan.
Cuba: United States should end the embargo on Cuba.
Foreign Aid: Increase foreign aid. Send aid to countries where disasters threaten human lives and when it is the security interest of the US to do so.
Intelligence Funding: No answer recorded.
Iraq War: Phase out US troops in Iraq and phase in UN troops.
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: United States should play a leading role and should support the creation of a Palestinian state.
Missile Defense: Eliminate funding.
Military Funding: Increase pay for active duty personal, but shift funding for the military to funding infrastructure, transit and other public works, schools, clinics, libraries, forests, parks, sustainable energy and pollution controls.
North Korea: United States should use diplomatic pressure against North Korea's nuclear program.
United Nations: Supports having the UN take over in Iraq.
Use Of Military Power: Withdraw from Iraq and greatly reduce military funding.
War On Terror: No position recorded.
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Social Policy
Abortion: Supports the principals of Roe v. Wade.
Affirmative Action: After more than 300 years of affirmative action to benefit white males, we definitely need affirmative action for people of color and women to offset enduring historic wrongs as well as present-day inequalities. Affirmative-action programs should not be based on quotas, and race and gender should not be the predominant factor in choosing qualified applicants. A good affirmative- action program uses a variety of methods to achieve the goal of increasing diversity, including using race and gender as one of many factors, including experience and civic skills, in evaluating the suitability of an applicant.
Crime: Eliminate the death penalty; train convicts with job skills and help them find jobs once released; provide convicts with drug and alchol treatment; reduce prison sentences for non-violent crimes; impose stricter penalties for white collar crimes.
Drugs: Legalize medical marijuana; legalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. Expand funding for drug treatment programs. End the War On Drugs.
Education: Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any public school; increase funding for school improvements; supports increases in funding for Pell grants and Stafford loans; supports affirmative action in college admissions.
Environment: Strengthen Clean Water and Clean Air Acts; strengthen emissions control and fuel efficency standards; re-enter the Kyoto treaty on Global Warming.
Gay Marriage: Allow homosexuals to marry.
Guns: Renew assault weapons ban; strengthen the enforcement existing gun laws; require child safety locks on guns.
Health Care: Establish universal Health Care for all AmericansThe state of health care in the United States is a disgrace. For millions of Americans it is a struggle between life, health and money. The Nader Campaign supports a single-payer health care plan that replaces for-profit, investor-owned health care and removes the private health insurance industry (full Medicare for all).
Immigration: Immigrant workers, even if they are undocumented, should be given all the fair-labor standards and all the rights and benefits of American workers. In addition they should be be allowed to get a drivers license in order to reduce hazards on the highway and allow them to function in our culture.
Internet Regulation: Position not recorded.
Patriot Act & Privacy: Admantly opposed to the Patriot Act and the erosion of privacy and civil liberties in the name of National Security.
Social Security: In recent years, hundreds of large companies have broken long-standing pension and health insurance promises to their loyal, longtime employees and retirees. These unfair practices are accelerating, rather than diminishing, and are undercutting the retirement security of millions of people.
Welfare: As the wealthiest country in the world, with high productivity per capita, a country that produces an abundance of capital, credit, technology and food, we can end poverty. We must make ending poverty a priority and weave that goal into a network of policies: Living Wages for All Workers; Truly Progressive Taxation; An End to huge Corporate Subsidies and Military Budget Waste; Job Creation in Public Works on Infrastructure; Equal Pay for Women; Child-Care; and Restore the critical Social Safety Net.
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