What progressive policies would you like to see made law?

[craigmatic]

Personally I'd like to see us get free education all the way to grad school. I'd also like to see the government end homelessness. In a country as rich as ours there is no excuse for that to still exist. Please add some of your own ideas.

[Sherman A1]

1. Living wage

would be at the top of the list, campaign finance would be another.

[onethatcares]

2. single payer healthcare

protected retirement plans/funds, demilitarization of the police, enforcement of clean water/air regulations, money out of politics, I'm sure I can go on but it's early.

One more; No family dynasties in our government.

[lovemydog]

3. Income for all.

Free health care for all.

Public education through grad school.

[Festivito]

4. automatic progressive tax based on disparity and poverty.

the greater the disparity the higher the income tax rate.
The greater the poverty the higher the percentage and the lower point at which it starts.

[Festivito]

5. automatic holidays depending on unemployment.

when unemployment goes up we all get another holiday or we reduce the number of hours worked each week for the same pay and benefits.

[vive la commune]

6. We only want the earth

1.) Basic Income/Citizen's Dividend
2.) Universal Free Healthcare
3.) Universal Free Housing
4.) Universal Free Education, Kindergarten through Graduate School
5.) Democratic common ownership and control of all land and workplaces (and all robots, because massive automation is totally coming down the pike, sooner than you might think.) Ownership and control not by corporations or by state bureaucracy, but true democratic ownership and control of the economy by citizens themselves. A mix of public ownership, worker-owned cooperatives, and small businesses. Guaranteed right of access to the commons and all basic goods needed for life. Free beer and free speech.

For starters.

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. # 1 - remove money from politics - at least as much as possible -

[RiverLover]

10. +1 End private campaign $$$ & use portion of defense budget to publicly fund campaigns

Severely restrict lobbyists access to lawmakers
Illegal for lobbyists to pen our legislation
No one in public office can become a lobbyist once out of office

[B Calm]

8. Legalize marijuana nation wide!

[HeiressofBickworth]

9. Elimination of tax breaks for moving businesses off-shore.

If businesses did not get favorable tax breaks for their expenses of moving manufacturing and production off-shore, they would have to think twice about the actual benefits of moving and taking American jobs out of the country.

It was the one thing that Candidate Obama said that convinced me to vote for him and not Hilary -- that he would eliminate the off-shore tax advantages. He has 2 years left -- and I don't believe this is even penciled in on the agenda.

[B Calm]

11. Obama campaigned for that.

[RiverLover]

15. And now he wants a specialist in moving companies off-shore to avoid taxes

to help run our treasury dept.

Al Franken joins Elizabeth Warren in the Obama opposition
12/30/14

...The Minnesota Democrat restated his opposition on Sunday, sending supporters an email with a link to a petition asking Obama to withdraw Weiss’s nomination. “More than six years after the crash, the American economy is still recovering,” Franken wrote. “We got into that mess because we were willing to let Wall Street police itself. Foxes make poor guards of henhouses. We know that through bitter experience, and I’m not willing to let it happen again.”

Franken joins Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren in opposing Weiss. A Warren adviser said in mid-November that Warren “is a no on Weiss.” Like Franken, Warren considers Weiss’s work on corporate inversions a disqualification, as is his insider status on Wall Street....

http://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/al-franken-joins-elizabeth-warren-in-the-obama-opposition-32599/

[meow2u3]

14. Tax PENALTY for moving businesses off shore

The penalty would be twice the domestic corporate tax, which would amount to three times the stateside corporate tax or 90%, whichever is greater. For instance, if the corporate tax stateside is 20%, the offshore tax penalty would be 40%, making the total tax rate 60% for companies who offshore their operations.

[pampango]

12. Repeal Taft-Hartley, restore progressive taxation, decrease military/increase safety net spending

and tighten corporate regulation.

Progressive countries do not have 'right-to-work' states and empower unions rather than seek to weaken them. They do have high and progressive taxes, a much better emphasis on social rather than military spending and more effectively regulate how corporations operate.

[RiverLover]

13. "Progressives: Big Ideas Will Win Us 2016" - Vote/Submit ideas HERE http://thinkbig.us/

Progressives: Big Ideas Will Win Us 2016
12/10/14

The 2014 election was a wipeout, progressives say, because Democrats lacked a bold economic message to inspire voters. Now they have a new plan to win—with or without Hillary Clinton.

For progressives, the waning days of 2014 should be as dark a moment as their movement has faced since 2004.

...“Democrats lost in 2014 because they failed to have a big, bold economic message that tangibly impacts people’s lives,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “People didn’t wake up on Election Day with a reason to vote.”

To remedy that, Green and the PCCC are launching a new initiative designed to grab the agenda and drag the party leftward in the run-up to the 2016 election. On Wednesday morning, the group is announcing a plan to solicit what it is calling its “Big Ideas Project” with a new website, ThinkBig.Us, that will invite elected officials, policy experts, and the general public to submit and vote on the ideas they want to see the Democratic Party take control of next.

Thirty members of Congress, including Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, have agreed to review the proposals once they are complete.

“There is a hunger for big ideas,” said Green. “The last election, hundreds of millions of dollars were spent saying, ‘Vote against Republicans because they will do something bad,’ as opposed to offering any governing vision on what we do.”...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/10/progressives-big-ideas-will-win-us-2016.html

http://thinkbig.us/

[Freddie]

16. Remove the FICA cap

I'm a payroll professional and it pisses me off every year when the highly-paid get an even bigger check because they go over the cap. A privilege for the already privileged.
Single payer healthcare for all, paid for in part by the over-cap $$.

[Orsino]

17. Several needed.

Ban private campaign donations; public financing of elections.
Tax wealth at higher rates than work.
Restore the social safety net, to include a Citizen's wage.
Severely limit the consolidation of media ownership.
ERA!
Amend the Constitution, if necessary, to revoke corporate personhood.
Put the burden of proof back on the government that tries to revoke voting rights.
Ban lobbyists, except those employed by non-profits.
Reduce subsidies to industries with net profits.
Fully finance public education, perhaps to include college.

I suspect that if we could accomplish the items at the top of the list, those at the bottom would tend to take care of themselves.

[newfie11]

18. Free health care, legalize Pot. Nt

[femmocrat]

19. I agree.

Sounds good to me.

Also free child care up to kindergarten age.

[oberliner]

20. Repeal Hyde Amendment

One would think that could actually get enough support.