Bernie Sanders' stances on issues: part 1

• Rebuild America Act: Sen. Sanders has proposed a $1 trillion plan to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and put 13 million Americans to work.    
• Paid for by making corporations pay taxes on all of the “profits” they have shifted to the Cayman Islands and other offshore tax havens, which the Congressional Research Services estimates may currently create losses that approach $100 billion annually, and other loopholes.
• College for All: Sen. Sanders has proposed making public colleges and universities tuition-free and substantially reducing student debt, in a plan that would cost about $75 billion a year.    
• Paid for by imposing a tax on Wall Street speculators that would generate about $300 billion in revenue.
• Expand and Extend Social Security: Sen. Sanders has proposed expanding Social Security and extending the solvency of this program until 2065.    
• Paid for by lifting the cap on taxable income above $250,000 so that the wealthy pay the same percentage of their income into Social Security as working people.
• Youth Jobs Program: Sen. Sanders has proposed a $5.5 billion youth jobs program to create 1 million jobs for disadvantaged young Americans.    
• Paid for by ending the carried interest loophole that allows billionaire hedge fund managers to pay a lower tax rate than nurses and truck drivers.
• Paid Family and Medical Leave: Sen. Sanders has proposed at least 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave to all workers.    
• Paid for by a payroll tax that would total $1.61 a week for the typical American worker. According to Sen. Gillibrand’s office, this would be “a self-sufficient program that would not add to the federal budget.”
• Protect Pensions: Sen. Sanders has introduced a plan to prevent cuts to the pensions of over 1.5 million Americans.    
• Paid for by closing 2 tax loopholes that allow the wealthy to avoid taxes on money they inherit and  expensive artwork they collect.
• Renewable Energy and Clean Jobs Transition: Sen. Sanders has a plan to invest in clean, sustainable energy sources powered by the sun, wind and Earth’s heat. He also has a plan to provide comprehensive benefits to workers as they transition to making the solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries of tomorrow.    
• Paid for by stopping taxpayer-funded giveaways to oil, gas and coal companies.
• Sen. Sanders has introduced a plan to expand health care coverage to every American.    
• Paid for by a 6.2% income-based health care premium paid by employers, a 2.2% income-based premium paid by households, progressive income tax rates, taxing capital gains and dividends the same as income from work, limiting tax deductions for the rich, adjusting the estate tax, and savings from health tax expenditures.

https://berniesanders.com/issues/how-bernie-pays-for-his-proposals/

• Create a progressive estate tax on the top 0.3% of Americans who inherit more than $3.5 million. He'll also enact a tax on Wall Street speculators who caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs, homes, and life savings.
• Increasing the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2020.
• Putting at least 13 million Americans to work by investing $1 trillion over 5 years towards rebuilding our crumbling roads, bridges, railways, airports, public transit systems, ports, dams, wastewater plants, and other infrastructure needs.
• Reversing trade policies like NAFTA, CAFTA, and PNTR with China that have driven down wages and caused the loss of millions of jobs.
• Creating 1 million jobs for disadvantaged young Americans by investing $5.5 billion in a youth jobs program.
• Fighting for pay equity by signing the Paycheck Fairness Act into law.
• Making tuition free at public colleges and universities throughout America.
• Expanding Social Security by lifting the cap on taxable income above $250,000.
• Guaranteeing healthcare as a right of citizenship by enacting a Medicare for all single-payer healthcare system.
• Requiring employers to provide at least 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave; 2 weeks of paid vacation and 7 days of paid sick days.
• Enacting a universal childcare and prekindergarten program.
•  Enact Employee Free Choice Act.
• Breaking up huge financial institutions so that they are no longer too big to fail. 7 years ago, the taxpayers of this country bailed out Wall Street because they were too big to fail. Yet, 3 out of the 4 largest financial institutions are 80% bigger today than before we bailed them out. Sen. Sanders has introduced legislation to break these banks up. As president, he'll fight to sign this legislation into law.

https://berniesanders.com/issues/income-and-wealth-inequality/

• Bernie recently co-sponsored the Keep It in the Ground Act to ban future fossil fuel leases on our public lands and would keep over 90% of the potential carbon emissions from fossil fuels on our federal lands and waters underground forever.
• In August 2011, Bernie was the 1st national politician to publicly oppose Keystone XL
• Increase fuel economy standards to 65 mpg by 2025. Recent fuel economy standards put us on track to reach 54.5 mpg in 2025
• https://berniesanders.com/people-before-polluters/accelerate-a-just-transition-away-from-fossil-fuels/
• Require Medicare to use its bargaining power to negotiate with the prescription drug companies for better prices (a practice that's currently banned by law)
• Not only would negotiation substantially reduce prices seniors and people with disabilities pay for drugs, it could save Medicare between $230 billion to $541 billion over the next decade
• In 1999, Sanders became the 1st Member of Congress to take a busload of Americans across the border into Canada to purchase prescription drugs
• Suspend the government’s authority to destroy packages of imported drugs at the border until new legislation's passed ensuring that Americans can import safe and affordable drugs from Canada

https://berniesanders.com/issues/fighting-to-lower-prescription-drug-prices/