Project: Connecticut Green Party Platform for 2010
From Steve Fournier: In light of Bill Curry’s remarks that Greens don’t have a message, Paul DelaRosa and I discussed a possible state platform for this year. I told Paul I’d draft a list of Connecticut issues and flesh them out on due consultation. Here’s my list so far. Let’s consult:
- Mandatory living wage, subsidized for small business
- State-sponsored public health insurance and universal health care
- Free tuition at state and community colleges
- Expanded, state-financed health career education
- Public transportation fare subsidies
- Postwar planning
- Recall National Guard
- Crack down on privatization
- Liberalize ballot access
- Public financing of elections
- State aid to urban education
- End war on drugs
- Fair taxation
- Energetic, fine-producing regulatory enforcement
- Responsible government use of resources and careful stewardship