It's worth revisiting the reQublican Party platform—its wish list—for what they would do. The GQP 2016 platform
would make Christianity the official American religion, throwing church/state separation out the window.
Here are 50 excerpts from the 2016 GOP platform, highlights are mine.
1. Tax cuts for the rich:...............
#1 on their agenda, wonder who suggested this?
2. Deregulate the banks
3. Stop consumer protection:
4. Repeal environmental laws
5. Shrink unions and union labor
6.
Privatize federal railway service:
7. No change in federal minimum wage
8. Cut government salaries and benefits:
9.
Appoint anti-choice Supreme Court justices:...........appears to be working
10. Appoint anti-LGBT and anti-Obamacare justices:
11.
Legalize anti-LGBT discrimination:
12. Make Christianity a national religion:
13. Loosen campaign finance loopholes and dark money:
14.
Loosen gun controls nationwide:
15. Pass an anti-choice constitutional amendment:
16. End federal funding for Planned Parenthood:
17. Allow states to shut down abortion clinics:
18. Oppose stem cell scientific research:
19. Oppose executive branch policy making:
20.
Oppose efforts to end the electoral college:
21. Require citizenship documents to register to vote:
22. Ignore undocumented immigrants when drawing congressional districts:
23. No labeling of GMO ingredients in food products:
24.
Add work requirements to welfare and cut food stamps:..........McCarthy's talking about this a lot with the debt limit
25. Open America’s shores to more oil and gas drilling:
26. Build the Keystone XL Pipeline:
27. Expand fracking and burying nuclear waste:
28. No tax on carbon products:
29.
Ignore global climate change agreements:
30.
Privatize Medicare, the health plan for seniors:
31. Turn Medicaid, the poor’s health plan, over to states:
32.
No increasing Social Security benefits by taxing the rich:
33. Repeal Obamacare:
34. Give internet service providers
monopoly control:
35. Make English the official U.S. language:
36. No amnesty for undocumented immigrants:
37. Build a border wall to keep immigrants out:
38. Require government verification of citizenship of all workers:
39.
Penalize cities that give sanctuary to migrants:
40. Puerto Rico should be a state but not Washington DC:
41.
Support traditional marriage but no other families:
42.
Privatize government services in the name of fighting poverty:
43.
Require bible study in public schools:
44. Replace traditional public schools with
privatized options:
45. Replace sex education with abstinence-only approaches:
46.
Privatize student loans instead of lowering interest rates:
47. Restore the death penalty:
48. Dramatically increase Pentagon budget: .......flagnote: buy stock in the Military Industrial Complex
49. Cancel Iran nuclear treaty and
expand nuclear arsenal:
50. Reaffirm support for Israel and slam sanctions movement:
Which ones should we focus on headed toward 2024?
Found here but page is no longer available.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/50-terrible-ideas-could-become-law
