Which Party Best Represents Your Values? Green-Rainbow Jobs and the Economy End unemployment now by creating millions of green, community-building jobs. Wage increases and workplace democracy. Economic justice via a sustainable economy that delivers security for all instead of enriching only a few. Climate Crisis & Environmental Rights Decisive action to stop climate change. Transition to a sustainable, and just economy. Clean energy from distributed sources. Let our children inherit a healthy, livable planet.

Democrat/Republican

Tolerate destructive high-unemployment year after year. Help businesses keep wages low. Empower large global corporations that move jobs abroad. Protect financial predators and undermine unions. Favors for the rich that widen the gap between rich and poor. "Stabilize" the big banks with taxpayer money. Unsustainable growth, promoted by growing debt and austerity.

Promote cancerous unsustainable growth that squanders resources, destroys health and endangers the planet. "All of the above" energy policy that locks in fossil fuel dependence.

Peace Reverse the militarization of our foreign policy. Use war as the basis of foreign policy. Continue to Cut the bloated Pentagon budget by 50%. End waste enormous resources on an oversized misguided military adventures. Pentagon budget. Poverty Abolish poverty and provide economic security Tolerate half of Americans living in poverty or near for all. Guarantee a minimum income. poverty. Inaction on poverty, hunger and homelessness. Education An excellent education for all, without neglecting arts, exercise, music, and citizenship. Oppose corporate-run charter schools, union busting, and school takeovers by outside powers. Support public schools run with parent/teacher engagement. Oppose using standardized tests to punish students (e.g. deny diplomas). Abolish MCAS, which panders to the for-profit test industry. Tuition-free higher education and an end to the student debt crisis. Government takeover of existing student debt. Healthcare Healthcare as a human right. Quality healthcare for all without denial due to unemployment or inability to pay. Prevention first. Stop letting profit-seeking private interests dictate health policy.

Tolerate glaring inequalities in educational results. Rely on local property taxes that create disparities. Focus curricula on corporate training needs, not real education. Weaken public education by promoting charter schools. Support privatization, school takeovers, and union busting to weaken the voice of educators. Let standardized tests dictate curricula. Deny diplomas to students who have passed all their coursework. Divert money from schools to the testing industry. Continue a financing system that imposes crushing debt on college graduates and furthers intergenerational injustice. Protect profits of insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Privatization that injects inappropriate profit motives into health care decisions. Increased co-pays, coverage cutbacks, and mandates to force people to buy overpriced insurance.

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Green-Rainbow

Democrat/Republican

Taxes Fair and progressive tax reform. Stop increasing fees and taxes on ordinary people. Carbon tax that returns dividend to people.

Maintain an unfair tax system while increasing fees. Give more tax dodges to the wealthy while increasing taxes that hit ordinary people hard.

Housing Decent housing as a human right. End homelessness and rent-induced poverty. Prioritize community development corporations to build affordable housing.

Capital investment dominated by real estate developers building unaffordable housing to maximize their profit. Foreclosures, spiraling rents, homelessness and profiteering.

Food End hunger and malnutrition in America. Develop sustainable regional self-reliance for healthy food from a healthy earth.

Let hunger persist. Favor distant, corporate, earthkilling energy-wasting, resource-squandering agribusiness. Cut food stamps.

Transportation Transportation planning to support clean, livable communities. Plan development to support trains, buses, bikes and walking.

Continued dominance by automobiles that create pollution, congestion, fuel supply insecurity, and a climate crisis.

Cities and Towns Strengthen ability of local communities to control their own destiny using open, democratic processes. Increase municipal aid to decrease reliance on local property tax.

Expedited permitting to disempower local boards and processes. Inadequate municipal aid. Blame public employees for fiscal problems.

Crime and Punishment End mass incarceration that destroys Mass incarceration - especially for low-income and communities. No prison for minor or victimless people of color. Militarization of police and use of crimes. Heal our communities to produce a violence to suppress social unrest. lasting drop in drug use and crime. Enforce significant penalties against corporate criminals that defraud consumers or destroy public resources. Health of Our Democracy Our democracy is not for sale. Restore the power of our vote. Get big money out of politics. Public campaign financing. Eliminate unopposed elections.

Tolerate major, profitable crimes by corporations and the wealthy.

Engineer a money-driven election process dominated by wealthy influence-seeking donors. Protect incumbents by restricting ballot access and excluding their competition from debates.

Ranked choice voting to promote more choices Limit voter choice to candidates of big-money on the ballot and make sure winner has parties. Discard second-choice votes and let majority support. candidates win without majority support. Protect our privacy from government spying. Protect whistleblowers.

Pervasive government spying that places unprecedented power in the hands of secret police bureaucracies. Severely punish whistleblowers.

Join us in voting for a better world.

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