1. Return to Progressive Income Tax Structure of 1950s

2. New Progressive Tax on Investments, Corporations, and Capital Gains

3. Limit CEO pay to 31x lowest paid employee

4. New Progressive Taxes on Luxury Items (Super Yachts)

1. Aggressively pursue net zero GHG emissions and re-enter/lead global efforts.

2.  Strengthen pollution laws (clean air/water).

3. Prioritize environmental justice communities for benefits to ensure equal distribution.

4. Refund research in climate and environment. Task force on microplastics and potential solutions.

1. Progressive Taxes on Private Education Tuitions

2. Pay Connecticut Teachers 85k starting salary

3. Federal income tax breaks for public school teachers

4. Hire enough teachers to keep classroom sizes below 20 students

5. Upgrade school infrastructure with modern equipment

1. Denouncing a Genocide is a moral imperative

2. Returning the land to its native people is the best way forward

3. Ending this conflict is more money for our own struggling citizens

1. Medicare for All

2. Medicare for All is net cost saving

3. No longer forced to stay at a job for health care coverage

1. Reparations for slave descendants

2. Federal Education Reparations for schools disadvantaged by Red Lining

3. Reparations and Criminal Expungements for non-violent people targeted by War on Drugs

4. Ending genocide in Congo, Sudan, and Yemen

5. Reparations for Indigenous people and tribal sovereignty

1. Rent increase control to 1.5x yearly inflation

2. New Leases cannot exceed 10% previous lease

3. Make Rental payments tax deductible

4. Taxes on sale of property to investment firms

5. Limit number of rental homes in area owned by single entity

1. Every American deserves the minimum amount of housing, water, food, and electricity needed to survive.

2. Invest in dorm style facilities to create access to housing quickly.

3. Repossess homes from Investment Firms and subsidize to help people move out of housing dorms

1. Abolish ICE

2. Increased funding for immigration judges

3. 21st Century Marshall Plan for South America

4. Cease CIA operations in other countries beyond intelligence gathering with allies

1. 40 hour work week was designed for nuclear family

2. Return productivity gains of the computer/internet revolutions to the workers

3. Make all Federal positions 30 hours a week with no loss in pay

4. Make all applicable federal positions Work From Home with income tax breaks for those that move to rural areas

1. Federal Legislation to transition all voting to Ranked Choice Voting

2. Automatic registration for U.S. citizens upon age 18

3. No excuse absentee voting

4. Overturn Citizens United

1. Block Police funding from being used to purchase military style equipment

2. National database of police abuse

3. End qualified immunity

4. Crisis Counselors with police escort

1. Legislation to abolish private prisons

2. Legalization of cannabis, decriminalization of other drug possession

3. Expungement of criminal drug records

4. Reparations and jobs programs for victims of War of Drugs

1. Assault weapons ban

2. Ending federal ban of gun research

3. Robust Mental Health services for schools and universities

1. Codify protections for transgender and gender affirming healthcare 

2. Codify protections in federal law for healthcare, jobs, rentals, etc

3. Ban book bans nation wide

4. Allow transgender women in sports

5. Ban conversion therapy nation wide

1. Codify Roe vs. Wade

2. Increase federal funding for abuse and crisis centers

3. Increase funding to reduce rape kit backlog

4. Revive efforts to Pass ERA

1. Publicly funded, good quality, childcare facilities

2. Progressive tax on private care facilities 

3. 6 months parental leave for both parents

1. High Speed Rail connecting New London, Hartford, and New Haven to Boston and NYC

2. Increase funding for city and rural bus routes

3. Update the electric grid

1. Jobs trainings programs for individuals who experience job loss to new legislation

2. Enhanced unemployment benefits to individuals who experience job loss to new legislation

3. Ensuring legislation targets large corporations and not small business

1. Increase NIH Budget by 25%

2. Increase NSF Budget by 25%

3. Restructure Peer Review process and grant process to increase transparency and access to all publicly funded data

4. New tax on private industry using federal funding university research data

1. Implement a universal free public college program, including certified trade schools and community colleges.

2. Vocational training for those for whom college isn’t for them but technical training would increase their salary/prospects.

3. Progressive Tax on Private School Tuition to fund Public Universities

4. All current federal student loans refinanced at near 0 interest rates and discharged in bankruptcy

1. End all military intervention abroad

2. Replace foreign military base staff with sovereign nations’ army

3. AUDIT the Pentagon

4. 2nd GI Bill

5. Current enlisted remain as reserves for National Defense

1. End income cap on Social Security

2. Tie Social Security benefits to inflation

3. Investment in elder care facilities

1. Regulations to ensure human consumption of water prioritized over AI facilities

2. Research into affects of AI on developing brains

3. Productivity gains from AI returned to workforce in further work hour reductions

4. Cancel all federal contracts with Palantir

1. Break up all large media companies

2. Break up all large telecommunications companies

3. Break up all large corporate conglomerates

1. Codify the Fairness Doctrine

2. Regulations as to what can be called news versus opinion or entertainment

1. $1.7M 50% from PACs vs. 5% from small donors

2. Funded by Corporations including: SpaceX, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, HP, Verizon, and AT&T

3. Takes money from AIPAC

4. In office since 1991

5. 20th Century thinking for 21st Century Problems