Issues

The Environment

"If the environment were a bank it would have been saved already"

-Bernie Sanders

• Fight Climate Change
  • Subsidize renewable sources of energy
  • Implement a carbon tax
  • Incentivize citizen adoption of green technologies
• Protect our Environment
  • Fund cleanups of our rivers, forests, and farmlands
  • Increase fines for pollution

Healthcare

"The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."

-Pearl Buck

• Everyone Has a Right to Healthcare
  • Medicare For All
• Addiction is a Disease, Not a Crime
  • Fight the addiction epidemic with rehabilitation, not jail
• Protect a Woman's Right to Choose

Technology

"ISPs should not be able to engage in any sort of fuckery that limits or manipulates the choices you make online."

-John Oliver

• Restore Net Neutrality
  • A free and open Internet has been essential to the technological explosion
  • Ensure small businesses can compete with massive corporations
• Expand Rural Broadband Access
  • A fast and reliable Internet connection is essential for modern life
  • Allow municipal broadband networks
  • Incentivize mobile carriers for better service

Education

"Education is the most powerful investment in our future."

-UNICEF

• Support our Public Schools
  • Provide greater funding for academics
  • Provide greater funding for sports, the arts, and other activities, all of which have been proven to promote academic growth
• Expand the Excelsior Scholarship
  • Remove the arbitrary income cap
  • Stop restricting post-graduation movement
  • Include room and board

Balancing Firearm Safety and Rights

"Everyone is in favor of gun control. The debate is to what extent."

-Unknown

• Protect the Rights of Hunters and Farmers to Feed their Families and Guard their Livelihood
• Ensure People can Adequately Defend Themselves and their Families
• Reform the NY SAFE ACT
  • Require background checks for all firearm transfers, public and private
  • Ensure only people who are mentally fit can have access to firearms
  • Introduce a mandatory 3-day waiting period on all firearm and ammunition sales

Political Reform

"The present system has clearly broken down. The results produced are not fair to any party, nor to any section of the community."

-Winston Churchill

• Fight Corruption in Albany
  • Limit campaign contributions from lobbyists and Super PACS
  • 5 year moratorium on lobbying after leaving office
• Ensure Fair Elections
  • Provide public funding to all candidates
  • Open party primaries to all registered voters
  • Expand early and absentee voting
  • Allow same-day registration
  • Implement ranked choice voting