Jimmy Cooper’s Platform
Unite the American People:
Promote dialog between Americans of all backgrounds to achieve understanding, empathy, compassion, and respect for diversity.
Restore Respectability to U.S. Government and Politics:
End the negativity, divisiveness, obstructionism, and extreme partisanship that currently plague U.S. politics and Government. Restore respectability, civility, good will, and bipartisanship to U.S. Government and U.S. political discourse, and restore our image around the world.
Green New Deal:
Reduce human caused climate change by transitioning to 100% clean renewable energy by 2030, and investing in public transit, sustainable agriculture, and conservation, which will create up to 40 million new, Thriving Wage jobs.
For more information on the Green New Deal, please visit:
https://www.gp.org/green_new_deal
Healthcare for All:
Establish an improved “Medicare for All” single-payer public healthcare program to guarantee quality healthcare for ALL people, regardless of employment, income, or ability to pay. This plan will also cover vision, dental, hearing, mental health, prescriptions, lab work, and diagnostic testing, and will be free from deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance, or any other out of pocket expense. This plan will cover any and all pre-existing conditions, and each of us will retain the right to choose our own provider.
Thriving Wages for All:
Employment as a Right:
Create Thriving Wage jobs for every American who needs work, replacing unemployment offices with employment offices. Provide vocational training for those who need job skills.
Universal Basic Income:
Establish a Citizen’s Dividend, which will guarantee every American a share in our nation’s enormous wealth, rather than just the 1%, and will improve the quality of life of all Americans, and ensure that every American can afford basic food and shelter, by paying a guaranteed minimum of $1500 per month for every adult, and $500 per month for every child, adjusted each year for inflation, regardless of health, employment, or marital status, in order to minimize government bureaucracy and intrusiveness into people’s lives.
Education as a Right:
Abolish student loan debt, and guarantee tuition-free, quality education from pre-school through university.
Civil Rights and Equality:
Guarantee basic civil/human rights for all people, regardless of sex, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, citizenship status, socio-economic status, disability, or any other factor. Promote hiring, promotion, salary, and school enrollment equity for all people.
Care for Wounded/Disabled Veterans:
Guarantee 100% of the necessary care that wounded veterans need to heal, that disabled veterans need for quality of life, and that veterans suffering from PTSD need to heal, up to lifetime benefits, as necessary, and guarantee employment for those who need it, so that those who have paid the price for service never have to face poverty or homelessness as a result of their service.
Reform the Criminal Justice System:
Abolish the Death Penalty. End the so-called “War on Drugs.” Legalize marijuana and stop imprisoning people for personal drug use. Stop the mass incarceration of African-Americans. Abolish “for profit” prisons. Use alternative sentencing (fines, community service, etc.) for most nonviolent crimes, and make reform, restitution, and rehabilitation the focus of our criminal justice system.
Common Sense Gun Safety:
In addition to improving our mental health system (which will be covered under the improved “Medicare for All” plan), poverty relief (which will result from multiple points in this Platform), and reforming our Criminal Justice System, all of which will help to reduce gun violence in the U.S., we also need to expand background checks, end the gun show loophole, and crack down on “straw purchases,” where people buy guns for criminals.
Campaign and Election Reform:
Abolish the Electoral College and determine presidential elections, like all other elections, by popular vote. Establish Ranked Choice Voting for all elections. Provide public funding of elections to stop billionaires, Super PACS, and corporations from buying candidates and elections. Guarantee equal media coverage for all candidates, and restore the Fairness Doctrine, which requires the media to give equal coverage to all opposing viewpoints on political issues. Allow all candidates who are on the ballot to participate in debates, and in presidential elections, allow all candidates who are on the ballot in enough states to win the election to participate in debates. Make all primaries open primaries so that the American people can vote for the candidates of their choice, and mandate that the candidate with the most votes in the primaries gets their party’s nomination.
Progressive Taxation for the Common Good:
Restore the U.S. tax code back to a progressive, pre-Reagan tax code, to restore the American middle-class, close the widening gap between rich and poor, balance the federal budget and stop increasing the National Debt, and pay for programs that benefit all of the American people.
Peace Tax Option:
Establish a Peace Tax Fund, which will allow taxpayers who are conscientiously opposed to participating in war in any form, to have their income, estate or gift tax payments spent for non-military purposes only.
For more information on the Peace Tax Fund, please visit:
American Owned Money:
Abolish the Federal Reserve, ban the banks from creating money, and restore the U.S. Government’s original practice of printing its own dollars, owned by the American people rather than a private organization that charges the U.S. interest for use of its bills.
Peace and Diplomacy:
Establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law, and human rights. End drone strikes against other nations. Reduce military spending by at least 50% and close the 700+ foreign military bases. Stop U.S. support and arms sales to human rights abusers, and outlaw the practice of allowing arms manufacturers to sell weapons to both/all sides in conflicts and wars. End mandatory draft registration, and permanently abolish any future possibility of a draft. Military registration and service should always be a choice.
Although I am no longer affiliated with the Green Party U.S., I still endorse the Green Party Platform:
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