Money & Economy
A tax code, a trade regime, and a social contract built to lift every boat — not just the biggest ones.
The tax code has been rewritten loophole by loophole to reward wealth and punish work. 55 Fortune 500 companies paid zero in federal income tax in recent years. Productivity rose 92% since 1979; typical worker pay rose only 34%. Trade deals were negotiated without workers in the room. The social safety net has been eroded by benefit cuts and eligibility mazes. And the national debt has been driven by four decades of tax cuts for people who did not need them — not by the programs that serve everyone else.
Restore the tax code's progressivity. A top individual rate of 45% over $10M income. A corporate rate of 28% with a real minimum tax on book profits. A 2% wealth tax on net worth over $50M. Treat carried interest as ordinary income. Rebuild antitrust enforcement and break up the monopolies that hollowed out competition. Protect Social Security and Medicare as the earned contracts they are. Replace blanket tariffs with targeted fair-trade rules. Pay down the debt with honest math, not service cuts.
Wages track productivity again. Billionaires pay their share. Corporations face real competition. Small businesses can grow. Social Security is rock-solid. The economy works for everyone who lives in it — not just everyone who owns part of it.
Taxation
The tax code has been rewritten, loophole by loophole, to serve the ultra-wealthy. Our plan makes it fair — and funds everything else.
Trade Policy
Trade generated $2.6 trillion in gains — while destroying 2.4 million jobs in communities that never recovered. The fix is fair rules, not blanket tariffs.
Social Safety Net
Social Security is not a handout. It is a contract — wages withheld, contributions made, a promise exchanged across generations.
Corporate Power & Antitrust
Competition requires rules. When corporations write them, the market is neither free nor competitive. We restore the rules.
National Debt
America doesn't have a spending problem. It has a revenue problem manufactured by four decades of tax cuts for the wealthy. The Clinton surplus years proved higher taxes on the wealthy work.
Corporate Responsibility
$7.37 trillion in S&P 500 buybacks over a decade. CEO pay grew 1,094%; worker pay 26%. Germany proves codetermination works. We end the extraction.
Affordability
Productivity rose 92.4% since 1979. Wages rose 33.6%. America is the wealthiest nation in human history — yet tens of millions cannot afford to live in it. This issue ties all 34 others together.
Automation & Future of Work
30% of hours worked could be automated by 2030. Only 24% of displaced workers receive any retraining. Denmark spends 2% of GDP on active labor market policies. The US spends 0.1%. The future of work is here. The policy isn't.