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- abolishing or nationalizing the Federal Reserve;
- ending all banker bailouts and other corporate handouts;
- revoking corporate personhood;
- reinstating Glass-Steagall, decoupling commercial from investment banks and insurers, among other provisions to curb speculation;
- imposing a Tobin tax on large financial transactions;
- a progressive income tax replacing today's dysfunctional one;
- removing the payroll tax ceiling, taxing all earned income at the same rate including capital gains;
- empowering workers to bargain collectively with management on equal terms;
- guaranteeing a living wage, adjusted by urban, rural, state and local considerations;
- guaranteeing income for the indigent;
- real regulatory reform, reinstituting vital ones eroded or lost;
- abolishing monopoly and oligopoly power;
- strengthening public education;
- enacting universal, single-payer healthcare, excluding predatory insurers, except as a voluntary option;
- prohibiting money in politics and barring corporations from controlling elections by easily manipulated electronic voting machines; and
- make banking a public utility, encouraging publicly owned state banks.
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