Bernie Sanders's Policies

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General
1	Reverse trade policies like NAFTA, CAFTA, and PNTR with China
2	Create 1 million jobs for disadvantaged young Americans by investing $5.5 billion in a youth jobs program
3	Make it easier for workers to join unions by fighting for the Employee Free Choice Act
4	Break up huge financial institutions so that they are no longer too big to fail
5	Re-write trade policies and rebuild factories that were closed as a result of bad trade deals
6	Reverse trade policies like NAFTA
Income Inequality
7	Demand that the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share in taxes
8	Create a progressive estate tax on the top 0.3 percent of Americans who inherit more than $3.5 million
9	Enact a tax on Wall Street speculators
10	Pass federal legislation to ensure pay equity for women
Infrastructure
11	Invest $1 trillion over five years towards infrastructure needs
12	Double the current level of funding for the highway and transit accounts of the Highway Trust Fund
13	Invest $75 billion to upgrade our passenger and freight rail lines
14	Invest $12.5 billion to improve airports across the country
15	Invest $17.5 billion to bring our air traffic control system into the 21st century
16	Invest $15 billion over five years to clear the backlog of projects to improve inland waterways, coastal harbors and shipping channels
17	Invest $12 billion a year to repair and improve the high-hazard dams
18	Invest $6 billion a year so states can improve the drinking water systems
19	Invest $10 billion a year for power transmission and distribution modernization projects
20	Invest $5 billion a year to expand high-speed broadband networks in under-served and unserved areas
Minimum Wage
21	Increasing the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2020
22	Raise the tipped minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023
Rural Economy
23	Fight for America’s small and mid-sized farms
24	Encourage the growth of regional food systems
25	Enforce our country’s antitrust laws against large agribusiness and food corporations
Social Security
26	Expand Social Security benefits by an average of $65 a month

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https://www.politiplatform.com/sanders/government