Medicare for All
includes dental, vision, hearing aids, prescription drugs, mental health services, and long-term care. That will give all families, including single moms and dads, access to medical care.
This will save us all money for cost-of-living expenses
Senator Bernie Sanders’ idea for universal healthcare is centered on his long-standing “Medicare for All” proposal. Most recently, on April 29, 2025, he reintroduced the Medicare for All Act of 2025 (S. 1506) to the 119th Congress alongside Representative Pramila Jayapal.
We need to have a movement to register new voters, get existing voters to check with
their board of elections to ensure they are registered correctly, and encourage early voting if possible. If a voter would like support while voting, we could help.
Bernie Sanders typically keeps his Medicare for All (healthcare) and Universal Child Care/Pre-K plans as separate but complementary pieces of legislation. While “Medicare for All” focuses strictly on health insurance, he recently (February 2026) co-led the introduction of the Head Start for America’s Children Act to specifically address early childhood education and care.
Thank you, Bernie Sanders, for working so hard
for the people for so many years
This will save us all money for cost-of-living expenses
Head Start and Child Care
Free College
There are several active proposals in 2026 aimed at making college tuition-free or significantly more affordable. Knowing you can send your child to college would be great.
For free, it should be a great relief to parents.
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This will save us all money for cost-of-living expenses
Spearheaded by progressives like Senator Bernie Sanders
and Representative Pramila Jayapal, and state-level initiatives.
Tax Reform
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos don’t pay any income tax. Tax loopholes will be identified and eliminated.
To secure our nation’s fiscal future, we are calling on those who benefited most from the Bush and Trump tax cuts to lead by example. We invite these great Americans to voluntarily return those gains to the Treasury for the sole purpose of deficit reduction. Our country needs your help to rebalance the scales. Moving forward, we will implement a simplified tax code that eliminates loopholes and ensures that while wealth is protected, the income generated from it contributes fairly to the country that made that success possible.
This will save us all money for cost-of-living expenses
Basic ideas for tax reform will be lower taxes for the lower 25%,
lower taxes for the next 25%, medium taxes for the next 25 %, and
higher taxes for the richest 25% of the people.
Building the American Dream: A 45-Year Builder’s Guide to Affordable Housing
When you spend 45 years as a home builder, you build more than just structures—you build the backdrop for people’s lives. Over my career, I have built more than 150 homes in a small town in upstate New York. To this day, the most rewarding part of the job has been seeing families move in. There is nothing quite like watching parents step through their front door, or seeing the looks on their kids’ faces as they explore their finished bedrooms for the very first time.
But the landscape of home building has shifted dramatically. Back in 1986, I built a subdivision where a building permit cost me just $10.00. Today, that exact same permit is north of $1,500.00. When you combine skyrocketing permit fees with the inflated costs of materials and labor, building a home has become prohibitively expensive for the next generation.
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To make homeownership attainable again, we have to think outside the box. We need solutions at both the community and individual levels.
Part 1: Thinking Outside the Box (Systemic Changes)
To help first-time buyers, local governments and developers need to collaborate on innovative community designs:
Developer Incentives for Smaller Homes: Towns should offer incentives to developers who commit to building subdivisions dedicated to smaller, starter homes rather than sprawling estates.
Zoning for Smaller Lots: High land costs drive up home prices. By zoning for smaller, high-density lots, we can significantly reduce the baseline land price for first-time buyers.
Innovative Construction Techniques: We must embrace modern, efficient building methods—such as panelized building systems, modular elements, and advanced framing techniques—to lower construction costs without sacrificing quality.
Part 2: The Owner-Builder Roadmap (How to Build It Yourself)
If the system won’t build affordable homes, first-time buyers can take matters into their own hands by acting as their own General Contractor (GC). By cutting out corporate markups and real estate commissions, you can save tens of thousands of dollars. Here is how to do it:
Secure the Land: Search the local market for affordable lots. Alternatively, talk to your parents or grandparents to see if they own property and are willing to subdivide a portion of their land for you.
Get Engineered Plans: Acquire a solid set of house plans and have them stamped by a licensed engineer. You will need these stamped plans for material take-offs, securing bank financing, getting accurate bids, and obtaining building permits.
Subcontract the Specialized Trades: You don’t need to do everything yourself. Hire licensed professionals to handle the critical infrastructure. Get competitive bids from:
An electrician
A plumber
An HVAC contractor
Hire a Consultant/Coach: If you have zero building experience, don’t let that stop you. Find an experienced, retired builder or construction manager and hire them for a fixed fee to guide you through the process, review bids, and inspect the work.
With a little sweat equity and the right guidance, the dream of owning a custom, high-quality home is still within reach.
Our Natural Resources
I personally don’t want to lump all the 1% into the same category. That being said
If they tried to use their money to get better tax rates, lower interest rates, lower capital gains taxes, and more tax loopholes for their businesses and personal accounts at the expense of their fellow citizens who can’t take advantage of these loopholes, then I have a problem. We want all of our citizens to have a higher standard of living.
Most oil-producing nations have now nationalized their oil production and receive all the revenues. If we use history as a guide, the 1950 Saudi-Aramco 50-50 split is widely considered the gold standard of what a balanced, sustainable international partnership looked like before total nationalization.
If we applied that historic logic to the American people today—arguing that U.S. citizens deserve a direct cut because American engineering, education, and military security made the global oil trade possible—a fair structure would look like this:
50% to the Host Country: They own the physical sovereign resource in the ground. 50% to the American Entity: To cover the massive capital risk, drilling technology, and refining logistics. If we had the gold standard as described above, we could realize 325 billion dollars per year.
We are just talking about oil, but there is also mining, forest products, rare earth minerals, etc., we should get a percentage of all natural resources. All meant to raise America’s standard of living for all people.
We can do something like this for America
Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (the Government Pension Fund Global) holds approximately $2.2 trillion USD (over 21 trillion Norwegian kroner).
To put that number into perspective:
Per Citizen: For a nation of roughly 5.5 million people, the fund holds more than $390,000 per Norwegian citizen.
Global Footprint: The fund is so large that it owns roughly 1.5% of all listed companies worldwide
. If you own a broad global stock index fund, Norway is effectively your co-investor in thousands of corporations, including major U.S. tech giants.
The Spending Cushion: Under Norway’s “Fiscal Rule,” the government only pulls about 3% of the fund’s total value each year to help balance the national public budget. That 3% slice alone injects tens of billions of dollars into their domestic infrastructure, healthcare, and public services annually, while leaving the remaining 97% untouched to compound for future generations.
Norway gets 78% of all revenue
High-Profile Legislation Currently on the Floor
1. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
This massive, bipartisan housing package just passed the House with an overwhelming 396–13 vote and is now headed to the Senate.
What it does: It streamlines housing regulations, updates HUD programs to cut red tape, boosts affordable housing construction, and limits institutional investment in the single-family housing market.
Key Feature: It includes a seven-year, $200 million annual competitive grant “Innovation Fund” to help local communities adopt unique strategies to build up their housing supplies.
The devil is in the details, and I don’t trust the Republicans.
Reform the stock Market
The Daily Average: According to SIFMA data, the average daily volume (ADV) across the entire U.S. equity market is roughly 19.4 billion shares.
I’d say .50 cent tax on each share would be good. That’s about $9,500,000 per day or $2,375,000,000 per year.
We can work on this more, but that’s a good start. One problem I see with the stock market is that most of the Pension funds don’t vote
at the shareholder meetings; therefore, because the CEO owns some shares, they have control over their salary, so they vote themselves huge salaries.
No More Wars
We will make Congress responsible for declaring War again.
We will honor our NATO commitments.
No more money for Benjamin Netanyahu or Israel until Netanyahu is out of office.
We need all the facts of the October 7 attack on Israel.
Any country that sells arms to terrorists will face the consequences of its actions. They become Pariah states.
There was a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nuclear weapons, they would be safe from aggression. See the treaty below.
Reduce the size of the military while improving it.
Let’s get all countries to reduce their military budgets and work on the environment. At least try!
No more bombing cities to ruin. People need Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Netanyahu and Putin are war criminals. House arrest would be good.
Key Provisions of the Agreement
In exchange for Ukraine transferring all its nuclear warheads to Russia for dismantlement, the signatory nations (U.S., U.K., and Russia) pledged the following:
Respect for Sovereignty: To respect the existing borders of Ukraine and its political independence.
Non-Aggression: To refrain from the threat or use of force against Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
Economic Non-Coercion: To refrain from using economic pressure to influence Ukraine’s internal politics.
UN Intervention: To seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine if it should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.
The “Assurance” vs. “Guarantee” Distinction
A critical detail often debated today is the specific language used in the document. During negotiations, the United States made a legal distinction between:
Security Guarantees: Which would imply a binding military commitment (like NATO’s Article 5).
Security Assurances: Which are political promises to respect sovereignty but do not legally mandate military intervention if the agreement is broken.
Other Related Agreements
While the Budapest Memorandum is the most famous, it was part of a series of documents that finalized the process:
Lisbon Protocol (1992): An amendment to the START I treaty where Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan agreed to become non-nuclear states.
Trilateral Statement (1994): An earlier agreement between the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine that laid out the technical timeline for the removal of the weapons and the financial compensation Ukraine would receive for the enriched uranium.
By 1996, Ukraine had successfully transferred all its nuclear warheads to Russia, and by 2001, all its strategic delivery systems (like bombers and silos) were dismantled.