No one in this country should go bankrupt because they can’t afford basic care. Medicare for All will allow us to offer full vision, dental, and mental health benefits to every American. We can ensure that we are investing in preventative care without having the burden of skyrocketing co-pays, premiums, and deductibles. It is time we join almost every other developed nation in the world, and value patients over profits.

I would support Unions with job training and apprenticeship programs, and I would expand rural broadband to keep farmers connected to the markets. I would increase the earned income tax credit, ensure equal pay for equal work, and invest in environmentally friendly infrastructure to make certain anyone with a full time job is able to live a healthy, productive life.

I would rollback this legislation and implement an increase to the top marginal tax rate. Income over 10 million dollars would be taxed at a rate of 70%. People have called this plan radical, but simply look to the 1950’s. At this time, the top marginal tax rate was around 90%. A perfect example of increased taxes on the super rich, which lead to a high growth period in American history.

In 1965, the average in-state tuition at a four-year public university was just $243, adjusted for inflation, students now pay 9 times that amount to attend those very same schools.​ I believe in debt-free College, Community College and Trade Schools, an expansion of the College debt forgiveness program, and an increase in need-based grants at the state and federal level.

I would make it illegal for our representatives to take political donations from companies that they are tasked to regulate. I support overturning, through a constitutional amendment, the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections. This drowns out the concerns of everyday Americans in favor of corporate interests. I support moving towards proportional representation, ending gerrymandering and publicly funded elections.

We need to re-establish the Dream Act, have a clear path to citizenship, and protect the rights of families to remain together. We need to invest in our immigration court system, reform the Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agency, and treat all people with dignity and respect, regardless of citizenship.

We must do more to help heal the wounds of returning service members, by investing in mental health programs to treat instances such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and traumatic brain injuries. Quality health care is critical as veterans return to their communities, and we must put forth every effort to ease that transition back into civilian life.

It seems every other time you turn on the news there is a story about gun violence. Shootings at our schools, work places, places of worship and in our neighborhoods. In fact in America, gun violence is occurring at a rate 10 times higher than in any other high-income country. This has to stop. Common-sense gun legislation is necessary and essential for any politician who claims to care about the lives of their constituents. I believe in Universal and Improved Background Checks for firearm purchases. Currently, our federal background check system has a dangerous loophole in which felons and domestic abusers can purchase firearms off of the internet or at gun shows without going through a proper process. I also believe in the banning of Assault Weapons and High-Capacity Magazines. These are weapons of war, designed to cause maximum harm, and have no place on our streets or in our hunting grounds.

While the United States is home to nearly 5% of the world’s population, we sadly contain nearly 25% of all incarcerated individuals worldwide. This statistic is made even more staggering when you look at the breakdown of our prison population based on race. Though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately 32% of the US population, they comprise 56% of all incarcerated people. We need to end the practice of mass incarceration, funding towards for-profit prisons and detention centers, and ensure the release of individuals incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenses.

I will stand up to the opioid manufacturers and make certain they pay for their crimes against our communities. I will work with States’ Attorneys General to form a national legislative settlement agreement against the most egregious contributors to the opioid crisis, ensuring the payouts from this action would go right back into the neighborhoods most affected.

I support raising the cap on taxable income so that everyone who makes over $250,000 a year pays the same percentage of their income into Social Security as middle class and working families.