A Democratic Economic Agenda

Despite voter perceptions, historically Republican administrations have had lower growth and job creation, and this administration is on track for one of the worst economic performances ever.  However it’s not enough for Democrats to just wait for Trump to crash our economy.  The Democratic Party has to offer a positive economic vision of how it will make our country better.

Policy Proposal to Address AI, Automation and Offshoring:  Change Employer FICA

The extremism of both parties hasn’t just undermined our conversation, but has also undermined the truth.  It’s not so much that each party is telling lies.  More accurately, each side only says the part of the truth that supports the extremism of their party.  Both sides ignore the parts of the truth that undermines or disproves their extremism.  Neither side looks at the whole picture.

 Democratic Transparency and Efficiency Agenda

The Republican Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was apparently just an excuse to randomly shut down needed government programs; it had nothing to do with efficiency, and everything to do with ideology.  However there are real opportunities to use technology to improve the functioning of our government, by increasing transparency and then using that transparency to bring real change.

Policy Proposals

  • Transparency into the cost of every Tax Break
  • Require Corporations Revenue Transparency
  • Require voting transparency
  • Require Energy Use Transparency
  • Improve Digital Threats Transparency
  • Improve Online Fraud Transparency

Democratic Capitalism

In the 1930s, our country reached a compromise.  While the world was debating the extremes of socialism and unregulated capitalism, our country chose a compromise.  We stuck with capitalism, but used democracy to moderate it to ensure it benefitted our country would we self-sustaining.

Fix What We Have

We don’t need to radically transform our government – it does many things reasonably well.  Instead, we need to fix what we have – we need to get back to the approach to government that worked so well for our country and our economy for decades:  Democratic Capitalism.  It worked before, and will work again.

The Importance of Regulation

The Republican Party has done everything in its power to undermine the government’s regulatory power.  But it is through regulation that our government ensures our country works for all Americans.