50 Shockingly Extreme Right-Wing Proposals in the 2016 Republican Party Platform

[Fla Dem]

These are just the first 10.

What Trump, a GOP Congress and GOP-appointed Supreme Court would do to America.
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet July 18, 2016

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1. Tax cuts for the rich: "Wherever tax rates penalize thrift or discourage investment, they must be lowered. Wherever current provisions of the code are disincentives for economic growth, they must be changed… We propose to level the international playing field by lowering the corporate tax rate to be on a par with, or below, the rates of other industrial nations."

2. Deregulate the banks: "The Republican vision for American banking calls for establishing transparent, efficient markets where consumers can obtain loans they need at reasonable rates based on market conditions. Unfortunately, in response to the financial institutions crisis of 2008-2009, the Democratic-controlled Congress enacted the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, otherwise known as Dodd-Frank."

3. Stop consumer protection: "The worst of Dodd-Frank is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, deliberately designed to be a rogue agency. It answers to neither Congress nor the executive, has its own guaranteed funding outside the appropriations process… If the Bureau is not abolished, it should be subjected to congressional appropriation."

4. Start repealing environmental laws: "We call for a comprehensive review of federal regulations, especially those dealing with the environment, that make it harder and more costly for Americans to rent, buy, or sell homes."

5. Start shrinking unions and union labor: "We renew our call for repeal of the Davis-Bacon law, which limits employment and drives up construction and maintenance costs for the benefit of unions… Although unionization has never been permitted in any government agency concerned with national security, the current Administration has reversed that policy for the Transportation Security Administration. We will correct that mistake… We support the right of states to enact Right-to-Work laws and call for a national law to protect the economic liberty of the modern workforce."

6. Privatize federal railway service: "Amtrak is an extremely expensive railroad for the American taxpayers, who must subsidize every ticket. The federal government should allow private ventures to provide passenger service in the northeast corridor. The same holds true with regard to high-speed and intercity rail across the country. We reaffirm our intention to end federal support for boondoggles like California’s high-speed train to nowhere."

7. No change in federal minimum wage: "Minimum wage is an issue that should be handled at the state and local level."

8. Cut government salaries and benefits: "The taxpayers spend an average of $35,000 a year per employee on non-cash benefits, triple the average non-cash compensation of the average worker in the private sector. Federal employees receive extraordinary pension benefits and vacation time wildly out of line with those of the private sector."

9. Appoint anti-choice Supreme Court justices: "Only a Republican president will appoint judges who respect the rule of law expressed within the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, including the inalienable right to life and the laws of nature and nature’s God, as did the late Justice Antonin Scalia."

10. Appoint anti-LGBT and anti-Obamacare justices: "Only such appointments will enable courts to begin to reverse the long line of activist decisions — including Roe, Obergefell, and the Obamacare cases — that have usurped Congress’s and states’ lawmaking authority."

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http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/50-shockingly-extreme-right-wing-proposals-2016-republican-party-platform

[Skinner]

1. But, but,

Both parties are the same!!!111

[emulatorloo]

3. And Trump is a POPULIST!!!!11111 and anti-Status Quo!!!111111

[kestrel91316]

2. Py

[Mc Mike]

4. His acceptance speech saying how pro LGBT he is was especially touching

when you look at the anti-LGBT platform he made it from.

[lovemydog]

6. Trump is against them being slaughtered by terrorists.

Whoop de do.

Some Trump mouthpiece last night on CNN was celebrating this as though it's some huge advancement for the republican party. Their platform is still regressive, and that's how Trump and Pence and all the republicans in Congress are toward them. Do nothing to advance anyone's rights. Only bring them up in relation to terror.

[Mc Mike]

8. He took a bold stand, there.

I notice how 'pro-Black' the repugs are too, when they could say how the 'illegal aliens' were taking all kinds of jobs, that would be available for Black Americans. Of course, the jobs are grueling agricultural labor, illegal sweat shop manufacturing, sub minimum wage janitorial, dangerous factory farming & slaughterhouse work, etc. Jobs that no American will take, the worst, dirtiest, most dangerous, most underpaid, but the repugs are 'so concerned about providing jobs for Black Americans'. They 'care about Blacks', when it will give them an opportunity to attack and demonize immigrants. After that, it's 'ALL lives matter! Blue Lives Matter!'

[lovemydog]

5. Comparing each party's platforms

imho is the best way to influence people to vote for democrats locally, for Congress and for President.

Keep sharing this far and wide. And compare and contrast the democratic party platform with the republican party platform.

Compare where each stands on health care, minimum wage, labor, taxes, etc.

[ErikJ]

7. 12. Make Christianity a national religion

12. Make Christianity a national religion: "We support the public display of the Ten Commandments as a reflection of our history and our country’s Judeo-Christian heritage and further affirm the rights of religious students to engage in voluntary prayer at public school events and to have equal access to school facilities."


I saw a poll where 60% of Republicans of one state wanted to make Christianity the official state religion