Bernie wants to overhaul our corrupt political system. Representatives and Senators are bought by corporate donors. Bernie wants to repeal the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited donations into campaign funding and move instead into public funding of campaigns so that anyone can run for office.
Bernie wants to regulate corrupt corporations. Corporations often pay no taxes, move jobs overseas to low paying countries, hide their profits offshore and lobby Congress while paying into political campaigns as a result of Citizens United. Bernie wants to close the corporate tax loopholes, raise corporate taxes and compel corporations to bring jobs back to the country by repealing free trade agreements that currently allow corporations…show more content… Powerful brokers gamble with the stock market by making thousands of micro-transactions an hour that increase speculative risk. Bernie wants to put a tax on these micro-transactions to put towards free public college education.
Bernie wants to regulate our corrupt law enforcement and judicial system. People are being put in jail for marijuana possession and police are disproportionately targeting non-white people, especially black people. Bernie wants to make the police accountable for unjustifiable asset seizure, brutality and homicide, de-schedule marijuana from the federal illegal narcotics list and abolish the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment.
Bernie wants to improve the quality of life for struggling poor and low-income Americans. The middle class is shrinking as a result of diminishing wages, expensive healthcare and education, too little family time and too little savings for retirement. Bernie wants to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, expand Medicare to all citizens, make public college tuition free, give three months paid maternal and paternal leave and lift the cap on Social Security so that wealthier people pay more into it than they currently do. The increased wages will also help the economy grow when more people have disposable
