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ISSUE
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GREENS
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REPUBLICANS
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DEMOCRATS
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A LIVING
WAGE
FOR ALL WORKERS
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Phase in a living wage ($10-13/hr. in TX cities) that allows a full-time wage earner to keep their family out of poverty.
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Raise Minimum Wage by $1 over 3 years
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Raise Minimum Wage $1 over 2 years
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CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
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The Green Party of Texas accepts campaign contributions only from individuals. No corporate or PAC money is accepted. We support full public financing of all political elections. All parties should be granted free, equal access to the media.
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Delay and water down reform while raking in millions from corporate interests
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HEALTH CARE REFORM
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Greens support universal single-payer preventive medicine and healthcare system for every American regardless of income, employment, or health status for the entire lifespan, including prescription drugs and equal coverage for mental health.
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"Not a primary concern of the Federal Government"
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Support piecemeal reforms, but no fundamental overhaul of wasteful for-profit system that leaves 45 million people uninsured
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"FREE TRADE" AGREEMENTS (NAFTA, ETC.)
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Opposed. We favor fair Trade, making worker rights, the environment, democratic sovreignty, and mutual prosperity the priorities. We oppose trade agreements negotiated in secret, which create administrative bureaucracies run by corporate interests that are unaccountable to public input and legal challenges.
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Supoort: Put corporate priorities on "Fast Track"
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Clinton and Gore were architects. Some Congressional Democrats opposed; others helped pass "Fast Track"
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DEATH PENALTY
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We call for the abolition of the death penalty. The criminal justice system in TX is clearly biased against the poor, minorities, and people with mental disabilities. Innocent people have been put to death.
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Support
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GENETICALLY ALTERED FOODS
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We demand that all genetically engineered products be proven safe to long-term public health and the environment before being put on the market or released into the air. We favor mandatory labelling so consumers can make informed choices.
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Have supported policies encouraging the proliferation of genetically modified organisms
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"WAR ON DRUGS"
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Stop the costly 'war on drugs.' Shift focus to treatment, prevention, and addressing the causes of drug abuse: poverty, unemployment, racism, hopelessness, and alienation.
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Continue past policies
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
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We support affirmative action to overcome the aftereffects of 500 years of racial discrimination in the us. We call for a public discourse on reparations for us slavery; the inequalities of history do not simply disappear.
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Oppose
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Support, but not in name
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REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM
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We support the right of women to make their own decisions regarding all aspects of their reproduction without any attempt by government to restrict or control their reproductive choices. Our support for choice is matched by our opposition to coercion of any kind with regard to women's reproductive freedom.
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Oppose Abortion rights
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Support abortion rights
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GUN CONTROL
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Legislation and policies that subject firearms to the same health and safety regulations as virtually all other consumer products sold in america. Criminal background checks per brady law on all secondary firearm sales.
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"We...reject...any mechanism to process, license, record, register, or monitor the ownership of guns"
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"Keep handguns and other weapons away from children."
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WELFARE
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Cut corporate welfare. Small businesses are Texas' great strength; our tax policy should encourage small and socially responsible businesses.
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Cut Welfare to single parents (Bush, Congress)
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Cut Welfare to single parents (Clinton, Congress)
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GAY / LESBIAN / BI / TRANS-GENDER (GLBT) RIGHTS
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We support the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons to be free from discrimination in housing, jobs, child custody, and adoption. Same-sex civil marriage with rights and benefits granted heterosexuals.
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"Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God"
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No mention in 2000 Platform, modestly supportive but conflicted over adoption, child custody, same-sex civil marriage
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