Democratic Party 2020 Presidential Candidate Positions
By: George Noga – June 23, 2019
The first debates among democratic presidential candidates are this coming week. MLLG has compiled a compendium of 70 positions publicly advocated by declared candidates. It is presented for our readers in no particular order and without editorial comment; sic loquitur pro se, i.e. it speaks for itself. I can’t make this stuff up!
- Payment of reparations for slavery
- New wealth tax of 3% per year on assets
- Late term abortion – up to the moment of birth
- Restoration of voting rights for released felons
- Impeachment of President Trump
- Raising the top personal income tax rate to 70% (from present 37%)
- Refusal to repudiate anti-Semitism by democrat members of Congress
- Free college tuition for all
- Medicare for all (Note: It’s not really Medicare; it’s Medicaid.)
- Raising the corporate tax rate to 35% (from present 21%)
- Abolition of the Electoral College
- Amnesty for illegal aliens
- No gun rights for released felons (Note: See number four supra.)
- Capping interest rates on all credit cards
- Packing the Supreme Court by adding up to four new justices
- Federal jobs guarantee to everyone
- Minimum wage of $15 per hour
- Infanticide: “Make the baby comfortable while deciding whether to kill it.”
- Impeachment of Justice Kavanaugh
- Voting rights for felons still incarcerated (including Dzhokhar Tsarnaev)
- Citizenship (voting rights) for illegal aliens
- Voting for 16-year olds
- Green New Deal including no air travel or cows and one car per family
- Abolish ICE – US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Deep cuts to defense spending
- Abolishing senate filibusters
- Single payer government health care for all
- Federal licensing and control of all large corporations
- Strict new gun control measures including confiscations
- Federalizing all voter registration
- Abolishing or changing the method of representation in the US Senate
- Ending all private health insurance and health insurance companies
- Reinstituting the Iran nuclear deal
- Statehood for DC, PR, VI, Guam: 8 new senators; 14 new electoral votes
- Tearing down existing walls on our southwest border with Mexico
- Raising the estate tax rate to 77% (from present 40%)
- Rejoining the Paris Climate Accord
- Raising the payroll tax by 2.4 points – equivalent to 15%
- Means testing Social Security
- Taxing capital gains as ordinary income
- Removing all caps from the payroll tax
- Taxing unrealized capital gains each year
- Jailing corporate executives for regulatory violations
- Cash distribution of $1,000 per month to everyone (UBI)
- Forgiveness of all student loan debt – $1.5 trillion
- Federal payment to teachers of $315 billion over 10 years
- Outlawing all state right-to-work laws
- Increase fuel economy standards for all cars
- Halt all energy leases on federal land
- Spending $5 trillion (unspecified) to control emissions
- Opposition to nuclear energy (cleanest energy we have)
- Creation of new Americorps – to plant trees on marginal land
- Prohibiting the private practice of medicine (Medicare for America bill)
- Federal licensing of all firearms – must be renewed every 5 years
- Abolition of payday loans – by mandating ultra-low interest rates
- Have the USPS (postal service) make low interest loans to consumers
- Imposition of a VAT – value added tax on the entire US economy
- Added 7% corporate tax on reported income higher than taxable income
- Free government provided health care for all illegal aliens
- Legalization of recreational marijuana throughout the United States
- Require companies to obtain equal pay certificate from the US EEOC
- Dictate national paid leave policy for the entire private sector
- Mandate federal preclearance for states to pass any new abortion laws
- Federal taxpayer funding of abortions (repeal of Hyde Amendment)
- Breakup Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon
- New exit tax of 40% of assets for any American giving up citizenship
- Federal government pays all rent for anyone in excess of 30% of income
- Abolishing all private prison management companies
- Free child care, pre-school, college and 100% student loan forgiveness
- New promises are being added each and every week; it is hard to keep up.