{"id":39881,"date":"2020-09-03T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39881"},"modified":"2020-09-03T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:37:35","slug":"this-is-where-the-candidates-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39881","title":{"rendered":"This Is Where The Candidates Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-and-biden-policy-stances-2_3483640.html?ref=brief_News&amp;utm_source=morningbriefnoe&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Epoch Times<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Economy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Trump<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grant tax credits to companies that move manufacturing back to United States, tariffs on those that don\u2019t.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Continue improving trade deals after USMCA, China Phase 1, South Korea, and Japan deals.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Continue to cut regulations for businesses.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fund on-the-job training, apprenticeships.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Make major investment in infrastructure.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Launched \u201copportunity zones\u201d program in 8,766 distressed areas, which, so far, have attracted $75 billion in private capital.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Build on becoming a net energy exporter.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Biden<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Strengthen worker organizing, collective bargaining, and unions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Make major investment in infrastructure focused on reducing carbon emissions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Make racial equity part of the mandate of the Federal Reserve.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Will insist on strong and enforceable standards for labor, human rights, and the environment in any future trade agreements<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Will ban anonymous shell companies, expand anti-money-laundering requirements, disclosure of beneficial ownership, and greater oversight of cross-border transactions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Taxes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Trump<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Signed tax cut legislation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cut capital gains tax to 15 percent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Increased the estate tax basic exemption amount from $5 million to $10 million.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Proposes a cut to payroll tax.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Biden<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Greatly increase capital gains tax to same rate as income tax.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Increase taxes by $4 trillion over 10 years, including raising taxes on people making over $400,000 a year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Governance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Trump<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Restore balance and vertical separation of powers between the federal and state governments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Promote voter ID, urging all states to join program to keep voter rolls accurate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Supports apportionment and redistricting based on Census count of all citizens, and not including illegal immigrants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Appoint more federal judges.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Make Puerto Rico the 51st state; keep the District of Columbia as a district.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pass congressional term limits.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Directed federal agencies to move out of D.C. to opportunity zones.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Biden<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Make the District of Columbia the 51st state.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Supports removing the Confederate flag and statues of Confederate leaders from public properties.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>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.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>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.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Supports apportionment and redistricting based on Census count of everyone, including illegal immigrants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Supports requirement for all federal office candidates to disclose at least 10 years of tax returns.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Health Care<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Trump<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rescinded the individual mandate in Affordable Care Act and supports repealing the entire act.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Protect those with pre-existing conditions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Supports health care price transparency.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Stop \u201csurprise billing\u201d by banning out-of-network charges when the patient doesn\u2019t have control over provider choice.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Drive down prescription drug prices. Allow purchases from abroad; cut out the middlemen who negotiate drug rebates; introduce \u201cfavored nation status\u201d where Medicare pays the lowest drug price available globally.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Accelerated generic drug approval.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Signed the Right to Try bill.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Anti-abortion\u2014curbed federal spending that even indirectly supported abortion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Permanently expand telehealth through Medicare payments and preserve more rural hospitals through Medicare incentives.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Enabled short-term insurance up to a year and is expanding the use of health savings accounts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Allowed employers to pay premiums for employees in individual market.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Allowed small businesses to band together to access insurance plans available to large employers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Declared opioid crisis a national public health emergency and focused resources on supply, demand, and treatment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Biden<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Introduce \u201cpublic option\u201d health insurance plans run by the federal government.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Protect and expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Increase tax credits toward health coverage. Give the tax credits to higher-income people who currently aren\u2019t eligible<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Provide free health care to illegal aliens.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Expand Medicaid in states that rejected expansion offered by ACA.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Stop \u201csurprise billing\u201d\u2014ban out-of-network charges when the patient doesn\u2019t have control over provider choice.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>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.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Treat abortion as a constitutional right and restore federal funding to Planned Parenthood.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Double the federal funding to community health centers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Target health care companies for antitrust violations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Exclude drug ads from tax deductible costs for pharma companies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Expand national and global vaccine programs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These positions should be the basis of your decision on how you vote in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Epoch Times posted a summary of the stands taken by President Trump and former Vice-President Biden on various issues. 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