muslimfeminist: 2016meet-the-candidates: =HIS POSITIONS=The Economy and other Domestic Topics S
muslimfeminist: 2016meet-the-candidates: =HIS POSITIONS=The Economy and other Domestic Topics Supports raising the minimum wageOpposes The Trans Pacific PartnershipSupports a tax increase on the wealthy, 90% tax for top earnersSupports the Affordable Care Act, as well as universal health careStates that income inequality is a growing issue in the USSupports President Obama’s executive order on immigration.Supports the Voting Rights ActSupports net neutralityAdvocates free collegeForeign Policy Relatively pro-Israel and critical of Palestine, said that Israel was provoked in the 2014 Gaza War, and that Hamas does not want the country to existMixed history on war, voted against fighting in the Gulf War and 2003′s Invasion of Iraq, but has supported the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia and supports drone strikes.In regards to Islamic State, he is against boots on the ground to combat the group, but has supported the bombing campaign against them in Iraq and SyriaSupports negotiations with Iran to freeze Iranian nuclear activity, against hawkish attitudes towards the countryLGBT Rights Supports LGBT RightsVoted against DOMASupported the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage nationwideWomen’s Rights Supports abortion and contraceptivesSupported the Paycheck Fairness ActPolice, Crime, and Gun ControlAgainst gun control. Voted against federal background checks and supported the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which bars the victims of mass shootings from suing weapons companies for making weapons involved with such a crime.Against death penalty, supports life imprisonment insteadAgainst police militarization.On the fence on legalizing recreational marijuana, supports legalizing medicinal marijuana.EnvironmentPro environmentVoted for protecting ocean, coral, and Great Lake ecosystemsVoted against speeding up approval of forest thinning projects. yikes @ foreign . this is a good/informative post though, better than those vague source less fandom style posts that have circulated -- source link