Everyone Has a Right to an Equal Chance and Is to Abide by the Same Set of Rules

Democrats

• Everyone has a right to an equal chance and is to abide by the same set of rules.

• No one should have to deal with discrimination based on:

• Race

• Ethnicity

• National Origin

• Language

• Religion

• Gender

• Sexual Orientation

• Gender Identity

• Disability Status

• Committed to the protection of all communities and to end all racial, ethnic and religious profiling.

• Every American should be treated equally under law.

• Prevention of bullying of young people and support LGBT youth.

• Affordable Care-Act helps guarantee families will be ensured when or if they lose their jobs.

• Supporters of a minimum wage increase and to index it to inflation.

• Support same sex marriage.

• Support 2nd amendment, but with regulations.

• Strengthen alliances and partnerships.

• Regulation of Wall-Street.

• Support a large investment in education.

• Support Affordable healthcare.

• Asking the rich to pay higher taxes on their higher wages.

• Cutting taxes for lower and middle class.

• Creating jobs with construction and community health centers.

• Helping small businesses by

• Cutting taxes

• Encouraging investments

• Encouragement to hire more workers

• Giving out loans

• Unions and labor laws must be modernized.

• Support workers as they have the right to organize and the option to join a union.

• Support the doubling of exports.

• Continue to fight unfair trade practices.

• They want tax cuts for companies so that they can hire more workers.

• Support the idea of insourcing: The idea of keeping jobs in America for Americans.

• Support cutting taxes on the middle and lower class.

• Investment in education

• Raising teacher’s salaries

• Reducing class size

• Reform education (common core)

• Support lobbying reforms where lobbyists cannot bribe politicians for their own company or interest.

• Believe that government is more effective when it acts transparent.

• Support the freedom of churches.

• Support equal voting

• They support the idea of a partially government-controlled market economy.

• Favor to solve conflicts by using Diplomacy.

• They support the rights of unions.

• They believe in taxing the rich as a means to redistribute wealth.

• They favor a pro-choice stance on abortion.

Republicans

• Support the simplification of the current system.

• Reduce the role of the federal government.

• Want to implement the Bush tax to prevent tax rates from rising.

• Want to reduce federal spending to programs that require it (i.e. national security).

• Support a corporate tax and bring in a territorial tax system so that profits earned overseas can be brought back to the U.S.

• Supports free enterprise (meaning companies can be competitive with out interference from the state government).

• Plans to increase infrastructure.

• Want to shorten the project approval process.

• Give states more flexibility to address their individual needs.

• They believe everything Obama does it wrong.

• They do not want energy from other areas because they foresee a jumpstart to the economy.

• They want renewable energy.

• They want to keep supporting family farms.

• Supports USDA and agricultural research.

• Against:

• Same-sex marriage

• Assisted suicide

• Obamacare

• Advocate for a stronger U.S. national defense and military.

• Wants to renew America’s economic strength.

• Wants an advancement of hope and prosperity within America.

• Combating human trafficking and slavery.

• Support the idea of having a country with an independent source of domestic energy.

• They support the energy of coal; it is plentiful.

• They encourage renewable energy.

• Prefer to hire more private and state companies rather than the government for the contraction of infrastructure.

• Support the idea of a nuclear arsenal buildup.

• They execute a practice called Peace Through Strength.

• They favor a free market.

• They support the idea of going to war.

• They stress the importance of having a Right to Work.

• They are not as willing as the Democratic Party to increase taxes for the rich.

• They favor a pro-life view on abortion.

Libertarians

• Favors a pro-choice view on abortion.

• Against:

• Censorship

• regulations on food, medicare, and property

• Social security

• The IRS and income tax

• Tax-financed subsidies to candidates and parties

• Believe that, under law, everyone is equal regardless of sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity.

• Supports a clean environment.

• Believes in the right to bear arms without regulation.

• Supports a free market

• They believe the government was made to protect individual rights.

• Avoid entangling alliances and recommends that the U.S. drop the “policeman role.”

• Believe in no government secrets; their existing secrets must be made public.

• They emphasize defense against attacks from abroad and enhance chances for peace.

• They believe in a citizen’s right to abolish or alter the government in the case of it becoming destructive of individual liberties.