| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Budget & Economy
Top 1% have benefited much more than average worker.
Stakeholder economics: Balance for everyone’s benefit.
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Civil Rights
Christian Coalition’s intolerance has no place in politics.
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Corporations
Code of conduct for US businesses empowers workers.
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Education
More teachers, more classrooms, more federal funding.
Opposes vouchers on equity & civic grounds.
Longer school day and longer school year.
More federal help for college; outraged at rising costs.
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Environment
Base trade on shared environmental values.
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Families & Children
Parental involvement with school & kids solves social woes.
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Free Trade
China: no positive economic relations with totalitarians.
Gephardt Amendment: results-oriented trade penalties.
Rejected NAFTA: needed more for labor & environment.
Trade will not bring about change in China.
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Government Reform
Disturbed by cynical attitude that government is the problem.
Limit campaign spending, by Const. amendment if needed.
Voting reform: easier registration, weekend voting.
Citizen participation solves crisis of faith in democracy.
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Gun Control
NRA opposes gun rules that vast majority support.
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Health Care
Federal tax breaks for small business health coverage.
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Immigration
Nothing wrong with immigrants, but Americans in jobs better.
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Jobs
Workers need to be paid a living wage.
Employees must “think like owners” to compete globally.
Require companies to invest 1% of payroll in worker training.
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Principles & Values
No more demands for perfect morality.
Politics is a substitute for violence.
Foundation of liberalism is community activism.
Citizen participation will get us to “an even better place”.
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Social Security
Social Security stands between many retirees & poverty.
Social Security is most successful peacetime program.
Treat Social Security like insurance; no stock market.
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Tax Reform
10% Tax Plan: end loopholes, lower rates.
Require national referendum to raise federal income tax.
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Technology
Supports R&D funding for medical and health research.
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War & Peace
Congressional authority united country for Kuwait invasion.
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