hiremein2026

Author: hiremein2026

  • Protect people from being exploited by corporations

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    Corporations are only accountable to their shareholders. One could say that they’re also accountable to state and federal laws, but it’s tough to argue that since they finance elections and even help draft legislation. The people that they are not accountable to are private citizens, who can do very little to influence corporate policy. The…

  • Immigration Reform

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    We are a country of immigrants. Immigrants have built and will continue to build this country. Restricting immigration not only denies the country from benefiting from the millions of people who want to live their lives here, it also enriches the network of human traffickers and “coyotes” who bring people in illegally at exorbitant prices.

  • Eliminate financial benefit of stock buybacks

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    Until 1982, stock buybacks were actually illegal, considered a form of market manipulation, as companies could use cash on their balance sheets to support their stock price. Today, buybacks are viewed as a “tax-efficient method of returning value to shareholders”. Stock buybacks are nothing but financial engineering meant to return value to shareholders without causing…

  • Make individual loans secured by company stock taxable

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  • Make Corporations finance the cost of paying their employees subsistence wages

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    Too many corporations are able to operate without paying for the true cost of the labor they employ. They pay their workers peanuts or strategically schedule them for just enough hours to remain below the full-time threshold, and therefore exempt from benefits. This behavior is awful for the employees who may need to work multiple…

  • Protection of Children

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    Federal laws to strengthen the protection of minors from sexual predators. Legal requirement to reach 18 years of age before consenting to marriage, unless the minor has become legally emancipated from their parents Until a minor reaches 18 years of age, they may only be able to provide legal sexual consent to a partner who…

  • Address Social Security Solvency

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    The Problem: The Social Security Trust Fund is projected to run out of money in the not to distant future. The current policy suggestions for preserving the fund solvency include two ideas: A third option has never been discussed or explored: Remove the cap on social security taxable income. Currently, employees contribute 6.2% of their…

  • Sanctity of Marriage

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    Define marriage as a legal union between two consenting adults. No person, business, or government should be able to dictate who gets married. Emphasize that because Marriage is an act that affects only the individuals involved, no State shall enact legislation that prevents two consenting adults from marrying, nor allow discrimination against any individual based…

  • End The Drug War:

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    The prohibition against drugs, and the resulting War on Drugs have been abject failures, leading to the deaths of over 1.1 million Americans between 2003 and 2023, countless arrests, millions imprisoned, at enormous economic cost, while resulting in enormous cash flows to the criminal and terrorist organization that dominate the drug trade. Something has to…

  • Medical Freedom

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    All citizens should have the freedom to receive medical treatment regardless of income level, genetic predisposition or other factors, without fear or financial ruin. When people obtain health insurance, they believe they are entering into a sacred pact, where they pay money into the system with the expectation that the insurance company will take care…