How would you fix the Republican Party?

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1. Support a $15 an hour minimum wage. What's more conservative than opposing government handouts to businesses that pay their employees so little that they have to take advantage of food stamps and other government programs in order to make ends meet?

2. Support the right to organize and repeal anti-union legislation. If the Republican Party really wants to avoid state-mandated redistribution of wealth, why shouldn't it support free individuals entering into agreements with one another and then bargaining collectively over wages, hours, and working conditions?

3. Support a universal basic income program. Again, if the Republicans want to get serious about slimming down the size of the state, why not implement a universal basic income program in lieu of traditional welfare programs? Send everyone a check every week and get rid of the counterproductive and often wasteful bureaucratic behemoths that deliver inadequate services and waste public money. As an added bonus, such a program would allow mothers to spend more time with their children (thus strengthening the family unit the GOP cares so much about!) rather than being swept up into the labor force after child birth.

4. Support paid parental leave and other family-friendly additions to the welfare state. Again, what's more conservative than allowing mothers time to take off work and provide for their children? What might strengthen the family unit more than allowing families more time off from work and more time with their children in the most critical years of their lives?

5. Support comparable worth laws for women. Pretty self-explanatory. If you want strong families, you should at least support paying women the same wages that men are paid, rather than put them in a situation whereby they are unable to provide for their families in the event that something tragic happens and the father is no longer around, no?