We seek to increase investment in transportation, education, and employment through increasing funding to these areas. We seek full employment by guaranteeing every person who wants a job can get one - either in private business or in the public sector. We also seek to increase funding for welfare programs and social services and support the implementation of a Universal Basic Income or Negative Income Tax program.

We support heavy estate and income tax increases on the wealthiest and seek to cut taxes on workers when possible. We feel that sales taxes, payroll taxes and VAT are regressive, and seek to abolish sin taxes. We believe that capital gains should be taxed as income, and support replacing the corporate tax with a tax on dividends in order to streamline our tax system. We support a federal Land Value Tax as a fairer way to fund entitlements - instead of the payroll tax.

We recognize the importance of international trade to the global economy, but we will only support trade deals that serve the interests of working people and the environment and not global capital. The government should make efforts to help workers affected existing trade deals.

We are a party which believes in science and embraces scientific advancements. Our stance on science and technology issues is simple: the government must invest in these fields, increase diversity, and prepare more people for employment in these fields. Policies must be enacted which increase representation of women and minorities in science and technology. In addition to this, we must increase access to a career in this field by improving science education, science programs, and awareness of scientific issues.

Our plan to solve infrastructure issues is to invest in infrastructure to serve the needs of people, not profits. We need no new urban highways, but we need billions in extending transit capacity. Flint needs clean water, and American children still grow up in lead homes that could be quickly and cheaply made safe.

We must decarbonize our economy by 2050 to head off the worst effects of climate change. We support carbon taxation, emission caps, efficiency mandates, and direct investment to accomplish emission reductions. Further, we support a large public investment in clean energy technology, and sharing the technologies gained freely with developing countries and partners around the world. The United States must help bear the cost of global de-carbonization and climate disaster mitigation.

The Socialist Party believes that the labor movement is an extremely important part of expanding opportunities for all workers and increasing workplace equity and democracy. We support the repeal of right-to-work legislation and Taft-Hartley, believing that all workers should have the right to unionize. It is imperative that we enforce and strengthen our labor laws. The extreme injustices of capitalism can only be solved by uniting workers and providing them with adequate support in their struggle.

It is a sad reflection on our society that there even needs to be a minimum wage as we believe all working people should be entitled to proper living standards. Nevertheless, we support a federal minimum wage of $15 per hour and seek to ensure that all workers are paid a living wage. We believe that the minimum wage should be indexed to cost of living differences around the country as well as over time.

We support the fair workweek and seek to expand overtime pay to all employees working over thirty hours per week. We oppose zero-hours contracts and support adequate amounts of sick leave, maternity and paternity leave, and paid vacation days.

The Socialist Party recognizes that our current healthcare system has failed. We must move to a single-payer, universal healthcare model similar to the United Kingdom’s National Health Service.

We must reduce the stigma against mental illness and receiving treatment for mental illness. In this, there must be significant investments to ensure that no person who requires mental health assistance is denied it.

The Socialist Party supports our welfare programs and the strengthening of our safety net. We support the consolidation of many of the inefficient and costly means tested programs into a Universal Benefit.

The Socialist Party supports universal childcare programs for families to improve school readiness - subsidized by the government and affordable to all.

The Socialist Party supports free college and university tuition for all in order to ensure that no person is limited from receiving an education due to poverty or an inability to pay.