Howie Hawkins

Presidential Candidate: Green Party

Running Mate: Angela Walker

ECONOMIC PLANS

Expand worker cooperatives
Public ownership of big banks and industries
Limit production of goods based upon the ecological capabilities of the environment
End Social Security tax cap on high incomes
End fossil fuel subsidies
Raise minimum wage to $20
Guarantee jobs for every citizen
Lifelong free public education (pre-k through college)
Double social security benefits
Provide relief for student and medical debt

Utilize Medicare for All to cover COVID-19 testing and treatment
Use the Defense Protection Act to increase the quicken the production of medical supplies
Provide $2000/month to all adults over 16, $500/child
Cancel rent, mortgage, utility payments
- - - The federal government will pay for these bills through high-income taxing
Suspend student loan payments with 0% interest accumulation

Instate a 10-Year, $42 trillion Ecosocialist Green New Deal for economic recovery through a transitioning to clean energy
Aims to end offshore drilling and fraction
Providing free, sustainable mass transit to reduce energy use by 50%
Socializing Big Oil; reinvesting in renewable energy sources
Supporting fuel cell cars
Switching to 100% clean energy by 2030, zero-to-negative carbon emissions by 2030
Enforcing regenerative organic agriculture
Invest in electrified railroads
Public ownership over energy, manufacturing, and transportation

Creating a national health service, controlled by local communities
Paying for this system through allocating current public healthcare dollars, along with progressive taxes on families who earn more than 150% of the federal poverty level.
Every citizen will be registered for Medicare health insurance program, replacing all public and private health insurances
- - - Citizens are granted coverage for the rest of their lives
Fully funding Veterans Administration and Indian Health Service
Eliminate out-of-pocket costs such as copays and deductibles
All health professionals will be salaried employees with compensation based on cost of living, seniority in the system, workload

Give all asylum speakers a permanent resident status
Open the borders; create a system of free movement between nations (such as the EU)
Give legal status to all undocumented immigrants
Close migrant detention camps, quickly unifying families back

Abolishing all nuclear weapons, supporting 2015 Iran nuclear deal to complete global nuclear disarmament
Immediate and unconditional withdrawal from Iraq
Bring all troops back home, end wars overseas
Reinvest military savings to Global Green New Deal

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