I just watched the Bernie Sanders rally held in Minnesota this week and decided to write down a list of items which I think should be integral to the political progressive agenda over the long term:
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* Universal Principle: Leave it better than you found it (Climate Change, Pollution, Public Infrastructure, Environment)
* The Norway Strategy: Commercial use of public national resources results in establishing national public wealth fund for long term investments for universal health care, free education, research and development of ecosystem sustainment technologies.
* National Power Grid for the 21st Century:National investment to create distributed national power grid which provides for distribution of renewable solar, wind, hydro power generated while increasing the availability / reliability of electrical power to consumers.
* Fair Business Taxes: Tax revenues should be generated by taxing transactions, i.e. sales transaction taxes (already done), financial transaction taxes (which includes taxes on all wall street and banking transactions), hydrocarbon product sales (gasoline, natural gas, other), etc. Also, "Capital Gains" taxes should be the same as personal income taxes
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I know this list could be a lot longer, but I think these items are straight forward and can be represented to the public in a positive way.