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Please rate the following policies on a scale of 0-5, with 0 being terrible and 5 being great:
- Represent the people, not special interest group lobbyists; represent Main Street, not Wall Street.
- Implement a revenue-neutral carbon tax and plant a trillion trees to address environmental concerns and promote sustainable practices.
- Ensure that all Americans have access to affordable healthcare and drive down the cost of healthcare through a public option, increased competition, efficiency measures, and subsidies for the neediest.
- Significantly reduce the cost of prescription drugs by negotiating most favored nation drug prices with pharmaceutical companies for all Americans.
- Address inflation by reducing the federal deficit through tax code reform, ensuring that the super wealthy pay a higher average income tax rate than less wealthy Americans, and auditing the federal government for waste.
- Re-establish the abortion policy of Roe v. Wade.
- Drastically reduce the actual cost of college by streamlining the approval process for 100% virtual accredited universities, like Newlane University, where students can earn credits for $39 per month that transfer to other schools, and obtain a bachelor’s degree for only $3,000.
- Dramatically reduce poverty in America and improve the labor force by emphasizing workfare over welfare.
- Address the humanitarian crisis at the border, expand the economy, and increase the tax base by making it much easier for properly screened immigrants to legally work in America and pay taxes.
- Ensure that regulations intended to prevent abuses by big corporations do not negatively impact small businesses.
- Decrease the influence of money in politics through campaign finance reform, including stricter regulations on campaign contributions, spending limits, and disclosure requirements.
- Reduce corruption and promote accountability by implementing term limits for Congress and prohibiting members of Congress and high-level government officials from becoming lobbyists for at least 5 years after leaving office.
- Reduce division in the country and make elections more democratic by reforming the current election system, implementing ranked-choice voting, nonpartisan open primaries, and ending gerrymandering.
- Improve interactions between the police and the public by funding body cameras for use by police to record all interactions between officers and the public.
- Reduce gun violence through common-sense gun legislation, including enacting red flag laws, requiring universal background checks, and implementing a 30-day waiting period on all gun purchases.
What other issues and policies are important to you?