Benjamin Nofs (Green)
Biography
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Views & Positions
- Economics- Wants to make sure that we watch the natural limits of the earth to provide for all people..
- Civil rights- believes that all people are the same and encourages the diversity of culture race and ethnicity, promote healthy relationships within the lines.
- Climate change- Believes that the land does not belong to the humans but the land owns the humans. Also that all things of nature deserve respect and freedom from exploitation.
- Gun control- With the Green Party being a branch of the democratic party he is a supporter of stricter gun laws. Also is against the culture of violence, nonviolent resolutions to conflicts, and world peace.
- Education- “The Green Party is strongly opposed to the dissolution of public schools and the privatization of education. We believe that the best educational experience is guaranteed by the democratic empowerment of organized students, their parents and communities along with organized teachers. We must stop disinvestment in education and instead put it at the top of our social and economic agenda. Effective schools have sufficient resources. Too many of our teachers are overworked, underpaid, and starved of key materials. We also must be more generous to our schools so that our children will learn what generosity is, and know enough to be able to be generous to us in return. Greens believe in education, not indoctrination. We do not think that schools should turn our children into servile students, employees, consumers or citizens. We believe it is very important to teach our children how to ask good questions. Unfortunately, we often expect too little from our students, teachers and schools. We must teach our children and teenagers to be leaders, and challenge them with great works of literature, economics, philosophy, history, music, and the arts.” http://www.gp.org/social_justice_2016/#sjArts
- Crime -the green party is agaisnt privatization of prisons. They want criminals to be apart of society and be cared for with basic human needs. Also they want inmates to have contact with the outside world and be exposed the the media and have access to educational materials instead of these things being denied to them.
- Taxes -The Green Party wants to cut the taxes for the middle class and the lower class as long as the upper rich people pay their fair share in taxes and get tax increases to equal out the cuts at the lower levels. Want to get rid of any loopholes that are in the system so big business can’t find any shortcuts and cheat the system.
- Size of Government- The green party wants to crack down on corruption and give the voice of the people some real power. Get rid of the winner take all system. Fix the electoral voting system so that the elections are not financed and the people’s vote will have more power.
- Health Care- health care is a right not a privilege and would like to make it so all people can have health care. Want a single payer plan. Support all forms of health care.
- Social Welfare-”Work performed outside the monetary system has inherent social and economic value, and is essential to a healthy, sustainable economy and peaceful communities. Such work includes: child and elder care; homemaking; voluntary community service; continuing education; participating in government; and the arts. We call for restoration of a federally funded entitlement program to support children, families, the unemployed, elderly and disabled, with no time limit on benefits.
- This program should be funded through the existing welfare budget, reductions in military spending and corporate subsidies, and a fair, progressive income tax.
- We call for a graduated supplemental income, or negative income tax, that would maintain all individual adult incomes above the poverty level, regardless of employment or marital status.
- We advocate reinvesting a significant portion of the military budget into family support, living-wage job development, and work training programs. Publicly funded work training and education programs should have a goal of increasing employment options at finding living-wage jobs.
- We support public funding for the development of living-wage jobs in community and environmental service. For example, environmental clean-up, recycling, sustainable agriculture and food production, sustainable forest management, repair and maintenance of public facilities, neighborhood-based public safety, aides in schools, libraries and childcare centers, and construction and renovation of energy-efficient housing. We oppose enterprise zone giveaways, which benefit corporations more than inner-city communities.
- The accumulation of individual wealth in the U.S. has reached grossly unbalanced proportions. It is clear that we cannot rely on the rich to regulate their profit-making excesses for the good of society through "trickle-down economics." We must take aggressive steps to restore a fair distribution of income. We support tax incentives for businesses that apply fair employee wage distribution standards, and income tax policies that restrict the accumulation of excessive individual wealth
- Forcing welfare recipients to accept jobs that pay wages below a living wage drives wages down and exploits workers for private profit at public expense. We reject workfare as being a form of indentured servitude.
- Corporations receiving public subsidies must provide jobs that pay a living wage, observe basic workers' rights, and agree to affirmative action policies.