Electoral landslide for whoever is opposing Computer09, 469-69.
Closest states are Rhode Island (48.99% vs 48.71%), California (49.02% vs 48.42%), and Vermont (49.41% vs 47.99%).
My viewpoints:
Economic and Fiscal- Keep corporate tax rates as they are, and give tax break incentives to corporations who go above and beyond to ensure utmost worker satisfaction.
- Ensure the free market is free, but with many reasonable regulations and rules in place.
- Provide extra tax incentives to businesses who go above and beyond in attempting to institute the most environmentally friendly policies that they can.
- People earning below a certain amount of money should receive a fixed income from the government in the form of a negative income tax, thereby giving all people a minimum income.
- Step in to reduce college tuition rates and thereby the amount of student loan's needed to be taken out. Expand government funding for students whose parents may not be able to afford college education for their children for all income brackets up to $250,000 a year, to be adjusted for inflation in the future.
- Expand upon the PACA.
- Drastically reduce the defense budget. Allocate the excess to the other, more deserving areas: Healthcare, Welfare, and Education, amongst others.
- Give government assistance to families struggling with their mortgage, including middle-class or upper-middle class families.
- Tie the Federal Minimum Wage to inflation.
- Raise income tax on the top 1% of Americans by a percentage to be negotiated with Congress.
- Promote Free Trade over Protectionism, ensuring the best possible prices for consumers.
Social and Cultural- Seek to pass the Respect for Marriage Act.
- Protect abortion at the federal and state levels. It's a woman's right to choose. In addition, all women should have the right to free and available access to birth control.
- Leave the issue of gun control to the states.
- Seek to curtail the Death Penalty in all but the most extraneous of cases, but do not outlaw it completely. Treason is not one of these extraneous cases.
- Repeal the Patriot Act.
- Americans have a right to privacy, and this not only means that the Government should stay out of everybody's private life, but unwarranted surveillance needs to end as well. That being said, there are individuals who should be monitored without warrants.
Foreign Policy- Put more pressure on Israel to withdraw from Palestine, but do not unilaterally cease to support them.
- Seek to negotiate with Iran.
- Put our foot down and make it clear that aggression towards our allies will not be tolerated, no matter who the instigator is.
- Seek to make legal immigration to the United States easier and safer, but deport illegal aliens who are not A.) Working in the United States, B.) Educating themselves to work in the United States, or C.) Serving in the military or seeking to do so. Individual cases can be reviewed in the case of war refugees.
