By Billy Badour
This is the second part of a weekly series highlighting the Democratic presidential candidates for the 2020 race.
Bernie Sanders is in favor of:
- Abolishing capital punishment, ending cash bail, and eliminating private prisons.
- Paper ballots to ensure election security.
- Medicare for all, a single-payer national health insurance program.
- An “extreme wealth tax” on the highest-income Americans, as well as raising taxes on businesses where a CEO makes 50 times what a median worker does.
- Increasing the capital gains tax rate and eliminating tax breaks on businesses offshoring jobs.
- Raising federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and requiring paid leave for all employees.
- Waiving college tuition, cancelling student debt and boosting teacher pay to a minimum of $60,000.
- Banning unlimited spending in politics, eliminating the electoral college and allowing incarcerated felons to vote.
- The Green New Deal, closing down existing nuclear power reactors, banning fracking and imposing government restrictions on carbon emissions.
- Voluntary firearm buyback program and universal background checks.
- Legalizing marijuana and erasing past convictions.
- Breaking up tech giants like Amazon and Google.
- Universal free meals in school.
