Yesterday The Epoch Times posted a summary of the stands taken by President Trump and former Vice-President Biden on various issues. Please follow the link to the article to read it in its entirety, but here are a few examples:

Economy

Trump

• • Grant tax credits to companies that move manufacturing back to United States, tariffs on those that don’t.
  • Continue improving trade deals after USMCA, China Phase 1, South Korea, and Japan deals.
  • Continue to cut regulations for businesses.
  • Fund on-the-job training, apprenticeships.
  • Make major investment in infrastructure.
  • Launched “opportunity zones” program in 8,766 distressed areas, which, so far, have attracted $75 billion in private capital.
  • Build on becoming a net energy exporter.

Biden

• • Increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.
  • Strengthen worker organizing, collective bargaining, and unions.
  • Make major investment in infrastructure focused on reducing carbon emissions.
  • Make racial equity part of the mandate of the Federal Reserve.
  • Will insist on strong and enforceable standards for labor, human rights, and the environment in any future trade agreements
  • Will ban anonymous shell companies, expand anti-money-laundering requirements, disclosure of beneficial ownership, and greater oversight of cross-border transactions.

Taxes

Trump

• • Signed tax cut legislation.
  • Cut capital gains tax to 15 percent.
  • Increased the estate tax basic exemption amount from $5 million to $10 million.
  • Proposes a cut to payroll tax.

Biden

• • Greatly increase capital gains tax to same rate as income tax.
  • Increase taxes by $4 trillion over 10 years, including raising taxes on people making over $400,000 a year.

Governance

Trump

• • Restore balance and vertical separation of powers between the federal and state governments.
  • Promote voter ID, urging all states to join program to keep voter rolls accurate.
  • Supports apportionment and redistricting based on Census count of all citizens, and not including illegal immigrants.
  • Appoint more federal judges.
  • Make Puerto Rico the 51st state; keep the District of Columbia as a district.
  • Pass congressional term limits.
  • Directed federal agencies to move out of D.C. to opportunity zones.

Biden

• • Make the District of Columbia the 51st state.
  • Supports removing the Confederate flag and statues of Confederate leaders from public properties.
  • Establish a national commission to examine slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and racially discriminatory federal policies on income, wealth, educational, health, and employment outcomes, and to study reparations.
  • Opposes Voter ID laws and supports automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration, early voting, and universal vote-from-home and vote-by-mail options.
  • Supports apportionment and redistricting based on Census count of everyone, including illegal immigrants.
  • Supports requirement for all federal office candidates to disclose at least 10 years of tax returns.

Health Care

Trump

• • Rescinded the individual mandate in Affordable Care Act and supports repealing the entire act.
  • Protect those with pre-existing conditions.
  • Supports health care price transparency.
  • Stop “surprise billing” by banning out-of-network charges when the patient doesn’t have control over provider choice.
  • Drive down prescription drug prices. Allow purchases from abroad; cut out the middlemen who negotiate drug rebates; introduce “favored nation status” where Medicare pays the lowest drug price available globally.
  • Accelerated generic drug approval.
  • Signed the Right to Try bill.
  • Anti-abortion—curbed federal spending that even indirectly supported abortion.
  • Permanently expand telehealth through Medicare payments and preserve more rural hospitals through Medicare incentives.
  • Enabled short-term insurance up to a year and is expanding the use of health savings accounts.
  • Allowed employers to pay premiums for employees in individual market.
  • Allowed small businesses to band together to access insurance plans available to large employers.
  • Declared opioid crisis a national public health emergency and focused resources on supply, demand, and treatment.

Biden

• • Introduce “public option” health insurance plans run by the federal government.
  • Protect and expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
  • Increase tax credits toward health coverage. Give the tax credits to higher-income people who currently aren’t eligible
  • Provide free health care to illegal aliens.
  • Expand Medicaid in states that rejected expansion offered by ACA.
  • Stop “surprise billing”—ban out-of-network charges when the patient doesn’t have control over provider choice.
  • Lower drug prices. Repeal law barring Medicare from negotiating lower prices with drug corporations; government-set prices for new drugs with no competition; allow consumers to buy prescription drugs from other countries.
  • Treat abortion as a constitutional right and restore federal funding to Planned Parenthood.
  • Double the federal funding to community health centers.
  • Target health care companies for antitrust violations.
  • Exclude drug ads from tax deductible costs for pharma companies.
  • Expand national and global vaccine programs.

These positions should be the basis of your decision on how you vote in November.