CREATING AN ECONOMY THAT PUTS PEOPLE OVER PROFITS

• We’ve never tolerated having a king rule our democracy, so why should we tolerate any ruling our economy. We must fight for a future where the value of our lives isn’t measured by a company’s profit margins, nor our humanity by the size of our bank account. We must fight for a future where all people, regardless of race, religion, gender, place of origin, income or wealth, can live dignified and fulfilling lives. Below is my brief platform — though not perfect — I believe will lead us in that direction.

“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.”

— Nelson Mandela.

• Universal Healthcare

  • Health care for everyone with no premiums, no co-pays, and no deductibles.

  • Covers primary care, hospitals, mental health, reproductive care, and gender-affirming care.

  • Publicly financed so one illness can’t ruin a family’s finances.

• Housing as an Economic Right

  • Universal rent protections to keep homes affordable and stable for renters.

  • Right to a lawyer for anyone facing eviction.

  • No credit checks or application fees to rent; cap screening at 2× income.

  • Big public investment in mixed-income, non-market housing owned by community or public entities.

  • End exclusionary single-family zoning; prioritize walkable, transit-oriented neighborhoods.

  • Use public land for housing near transit and repeal rules that block building more homes.

• Jobs & Work (Economic Backbone)

  • Federal Job Guarantee: paid public jobs with benefits in green infrastructure, care, construction, and community services.

  • 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay or benefits.

  • If you work full-time you can afford a home: tie minimum wage to local housing costs, inflation, and productivity so rent stays below 30% of full-time pay.

  • Phase things in to support small businesses and keep local economies healthy.

• Retiring with Dignity

  • Fully fund Social Security: remove the payroll cap on high incomes and add progressive contributions so benefits stay solid without squeezing workers.

  • No tax on Social Security income for most people (exclude the top 10% of earners).

  • Lower full retirement age to 64 and increase benefit levels.

  • Expand senior supports like nationwide Meals on Wheels and community service options.

  • Create Guaranteed Minimum Retirement Assets — universal accounts topped up by progressive contributions and public matching for low-income workers.

  • Ban private equity from tapping pension funds.

“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”

— Louis Brandeis

• Close the loopholes. End special breaks for carried interest, golden parachutes, and other tricks that let the ultra-rich and corporations dodge taxes.

• Tax real wealth, not just paycheck income. Put a modest wealth tax (1% over $2.5 million up to 10% over $10 million) and a tax on unrealized gains so fortunes can’t grow tax-free forever — no more “buy, borrow, die.”

• Put key infrastructure in community hands. Shift ownership of energy, transit, and major logistics to worker & community ownership with democratic boards — public benefit, not private profit.

• Back workers with real capital. Create public banks and low-cost public capital so worker co-ops, municipal projects, and affordable housing can thrive.

• Stop private equity from ripping off the public. Block speculative funds from extracting value out of public services and infrastructure.

• Invest in people, not austerity. Prioritize public spending on jobs, care, housing, and climate over corporate subsidies. Protect Medicare and Medicaid and reject austerity cuts like the SAVE Act.

• Modernize K–16 (Invest in our future)

  • Rebuild our schools for the 21st century with big, sustained investments.

  • Put teachers first: better pay, smaller classes, and real support so every kid gets the best education possible.

  • Follow what works: more equity, less high-stakes testing, and learning that builds curious, capable people.

  • Make public college free — tuition, fees, and room & board covered at community colleges and state schools.

  • Cancel federal and state student loan debt and create a public refinancing option to ease private loan burdens.

  • Stop sending public K–12 dollars to private school vouchers — fund public schools so every child can thrive.

  • Expand career and trade pathways, apprenticeships, and lifelong learning so every worker can keep up with change.

• End the attacks on our health

  • Treat addiction as health care — expand treatment, harm reduction, and recovery services so people get help, not punishment.

  • Invest massively in mental health so care is available when and where people need it.

  • Use a precautionary approach: remove or restrict chemicals and products that threaten public health until they’re proven safe.

  • Grow our health workforce — remove needless caps and red tape on medical training and certification so more clinicians can care for patients.

  • Lower costs by expanding public options, improving prevention, and making prices transparent.

“The true measure of any society is how it treats its most vulnerable members.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

• Free, public childcare (ages 0–12), pre-K, eldercare, and disability supports — run locally and paid caregivers get good wages.

• Generous, job-protected paid parental leave for everyone (modeled after Sweden), so families can bond without losing income.

• A national literacy drive to end functional illiteracy and boost job skills for adults and kids.

• Free afterschool programs, teen centers, and youth services, with a nationwide buildout of safe “third places” for young adults to learn, work, and connect.

• Require supermarkets to donate all unsold, safe-to-eat food to people in need.

• A National Lifetime Opportunity Account for every newborn — a federal seed deposit that grows into a career & wealth account for school, a home (shared-equity), a business start-up, or retirement; matched credits help families with the least.

• Replace secret, profit-driven credit scoring with fair rules: ban scores from deciding housing, utilities, or basic services; create public, non-profit lending; cap interest and fees; make approvals simple and explainable; and auto-repair credit after real hardship.

• Lower monthly bills by putting essential services like water, electricity, and internet into public hands — cutting out the profit motive and any middlemen, reinvesting savings into better service and lower costs.

• Move quickly off fossil fuels by building a clean energy economy that creates good local jobs.

• Lead with renewables like solar, wind, and storage — the fastest, cheapest energy we have — while using modern nuclear power responsibly as a steady, carbon-free backup where needed.

• Upgrade our energy system for the 21st century: bury vulnerable power lines, modernize the grid, add green roofs, shade, and storm-resilient infrastructure.

• Make where people live and where they need to go the shortest distance possible by building cities around people, not cars — safer streets, better transit, cleaner air, and healthier neighborhoods.

• Protect our land and water by giving ecosystems legal protection and letting local and Indigenous stewards help care for them.

• Prepare for extreme weather by investing in stronger early-warning systems and specialized region specific infrastructure so disasters don’t become catastrophes.

• Protect the right to organize and make it easier and safer for workers to form unions without fear of retaliation.

• Strengthen the National Labor Relations Board and require public projects to use fair wages, local hiring, and strong labor standards.

• Make sure workers share in the success they create — when companies do well, employees earn profit-sharing, not just executives.

• Provide real support for workers who lose a job, modeled on countries that help people retrain and get back to work quickly instead of punishing them.

• Create a National Portable Benefits System so health coverage, paid leave, retirement savings, and training benefits follow workers from job to job — including freelancers and gig workers.

• Establish a Worker Bill of Rights guaranteeing basics no matter where you work: paid sick leave, predictable schedules, fair pay, protection from retaliation, and time to care for family.

• Create public home insurance and reinsurance so families aren’t priced out or abandoned after wildfires, floods, or climate disasters.

• Ban predatory business practices — no surprise fees, no junk charges, no price gouging, and no products designed to break early just to force you to buy more.

• Require products to be repairable, durable, and clearly labeled so people can fix what they own instead of constantly replacing it.

• End stock buybacks that inflate executive pay instead of investing in workers, innovation, or lower prices.

• Set clear rules for powerful tech companies so new technologies help people instead of destabilizing the economy or exploiting users.

• Restore strong financial safeguards so everyday savings aren’t used to gamble on Wall Street — keeping banks focused on serving communities, not speculation.

• Make prices honest and upfront: taxes included on price tags, clear bills, and plain-language contracts people can actually understand.

• Establish a Digital Bill of Rights to protect privacy, personal data, and digital identity — including limits on surveillance, data sales, and AI misuse.

• Replace unfair property taxes with a land value system that rewards homeowners, discourages speculation, and helps fund housing and local services.

• Hold accountable all agencies, politicians and corporations complicit in corruption and crimes against humanity and the American people.

• End cash bail and mandatory minimums — treat each case fairly, not by how much money someone has or a one-size sentence.

• Demilitarize the police and cut military-grade gear. Fund community responders for mental health, addiction, and crisis calls.

• Close private prisons and stop federal incentives that encourage incarceration. Reinvest verified savings into housing, jobs, treatment, and community programs.

• Shift from mass incarceration to transformative and restorative justice that holds people accountable while repairing harm (think Norway’s approach).

• Close the school-to-prison pipeline by fully funding youth services, afterschool programs, job pathways, and anti-poverty supports.

• Commit to full reparations and targeted investments for communities harmed by systemic racial and economic exclusion.

• End civil asset forfeiture without a conviction and restore basic property-rights protections.

• Ban child marriage and strengthen anti-trafficking laws. Require survivor-centered investigations and independent oversight — hold anyone who abuses power accountable, regardless of position.

• Create independent civilian oversight boards and strengthen whistleblower protections so abuse is investigated fairly and transparently.

• Freedom of movement: regularize migration pathways, end deportations

• Immediate and full amnesty with full labor & social service access for undocumented Americans.

• Abolish ICE — use the money saved to document everyone and reinvest savings into repairing communites.

• Universal, Free High-Quality Public Transit Network — free transit in metros and rural shuttles funded by progressive taxes and operated as public service with worker co-op depots. Convert highways into high speed rail and city streets into easy access and fast public transit.

• Cut all wasteful military spending and redirect that money to schools, healthcare, jobs, and climate resilience.

• Bring troops home and close unnecessary overseas bases. Focus on helping communities at home, not nation-building abroad.

• Repeal the open-ended 2001 AUMF and require Congress to approve any overseas military action with clear limits and sunsets.

• Put diplomacy, aid, and conflict prevention first — build relationships, not enemies. Fund peacebuilding, mediators, and reconstruction led by local people.

  • (Gen Z & Gen Alpha have no enemies, I will refuse to send the children of this nation to fight the children of other nations. Any war should have those who would profit from it be the first to be drafted (the bankers, the president, politicians, CEO’s, etc.).

• Stop unconditional military and economic support for Israel and any other nation or company that violate human rights. Tie aid to real human-rights benchmarks and immediate humanitarian relief.

• End sweeping sanctions that hurt ordinary people; use targeted measures and diplomacy to avoid humanitarian crises.

• Lead a global push for total denuclearization — reduce nuclear arsenals and never treat the planet as expendable.

• Make war decisions and defense contractors accountable. No special exemptions: those who design and profit from war should face the same obligations and oversight as everyone else.

• Replace forever-war thinking with policies that protect people: community safety programs, diplomacy, and smart international cooperation.

• Universal suffrage: restore voting for people with convictions, extend voting to permanent residents, and make D.C. a state.

• Replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote.

• Set the voting age to 16.

• Implement a constitutional amendment to make housing, healthcare (including abortion), childcare, parental leave, human centric cities, education, clean food & water, electricity, internet, a healthy environment and a living wage job constitutional rights.

• Limit Supreme Court power over judicial review. Defund and Pack the court.

• Tie congressional pay to the median American’s income. Remove all special privileges. Have our congresspersons make legislation from the lived experience of everyday Americans.

  • Remove pensions, tax loopholes, and other perks that separate representatives from ordinary life; require public disclosure of outside income.

• Implement a lottery-style (sortition) system for electing our representatives (just like we do for jury duty), paired with multi-member districts and proportional representation to ensure all voices are represented and make it harder for the rich to manipulate/corrupt our democracy.

  • Guardrails:

    • Robust civic training and paid preparation for randomly selected citizens.

    • Strong recall mechanisms and short, non-renewable terms to prevent entrenchment.

    • Transparent deliberative procedures, public disclosure rules, and strict rotation to stop capture.

    • Public financing and protections against private influence (no outside gifts, lobbying bans during service).

• Expand the number of seats in the House of Representatives (ex. Wyoming rule) and end the Senate filibuster.

• Allow those who would fight to have democratic say over declarations of war.

• Overturn Citizens v. United and remove the ultra-wealthy ability to further manipulate politics; Pass a constitutional amendment declaring that money is not speech and corporations are not people.