Progressive Solutions: Preparation, Prevention, and Protection!
What’s with all the ISSUES?
Don’t be overwhelmed by all the issues I have listed! It’s just that so much has been neglected, for so long, and so much has been ignored or denied, there is just a lot to address. Realistically, it could take a few decades… However, well thought out solutions and actions would address many overlapping or interrelated issues efficiently.
healthcare
- Medicaid expansion (hopefully to lead to Universal Healthcare)
- Legalize medical cannabis
- Block for-profit Medical corporate consolidation without rural medical expansion
- Develop community based solutions to the issue of nutrition deserts
- INCREASE funding of Planned Parenthood to provide pre- and post-natal care until Universal Healthcare is a reality
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education
- Provide rational, sustainable financing of public education
- Increase teacher pay
- Increase the number of teacher aides
- Stop the “first to cut, last to increase” philosophy for funding
- Stop charter funding without providing for accountability
- Expand trade & technical training
- Expand apprentice programs
- Provide every child access to broadband internet for school-related activities
Legal/Criminal Justice
- Reform cash bail bonding
- End Civil forfeiture without a conviction
- Decriminalize use of cannabis — issue a ticket for low level infractions
- Address school-to-jail pipeline — provide more counselors, less police
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ECONOMIC Justice
- Require affordable housing provisions in all new developments or major renovations
- Establish living wage minimums — require in all government contracts
- Protect the rights of workers to organize
- Encourage Community banking/USPS banking
- Establish family leave policies
- Lower limits on Pay Day Lender interest rates
Gun safety
- Implement red flag laws — temporary removal of firearms from dangerous individuals
- Close the Charleston Loophole — no gun purchases until background check clears
- Equate gun ownership to responsible automobile ownership: training, testing, and liability insurance requirements
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Sustainable energy
- Promote private/public partnerships for regional level recycling
- Provide solar, wind, and tidal energy incentives until ALL coal plants are shutdown
- Provide incentives for building a network of recharging/refueling stations
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support small business
- Review regulations with an eye to reduce burdens on SMBs
- Properly fund regulatory oversight of large companies
- Make penalties proportional to the size of the company violating the rules
- Discourage monopolistic practices at the State level
sustainable economic growth
- Allow home rule on impact fees
- Base tax incentives on how rural the area is to be developed
- Base tax incentives on how impoverished an area is to be developed
- Require internet providers to either offer broadband EVERYWHERE or provide infrastructure to other organizations to use
environmental justice
- Protect communities from air and ground pollution
- Ensure community Clean Water
- Permit home rule on local environmental rules
- Forbid South Carolina offshore drilling!!!!!!!!
Police Reform/REFOCUS
- Increase funding for social services first responders
- End Qualified Immunity
- Prohibit Taxpayer’s money being used to pay settlements
- Must include a national database of police abuse
- Must include zero tolerance policy
- Implement revised use of force/rules of engagement
- Require dash and body cams come on the instant the officer leaves his/her vehicle
- Create joint civilian/elected official review boards
- Demilitarize the police — That is what the State National Guard is for
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Misc
- Change county administrative offices to non-partisan races using competency-based criteria
- Minimize gerrymandering — establish non-partisan district mapping commissions
- Properly support first responders/essential workers/military with benefits & retirement
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