What can be done about price inflation?
Obviously tariffs need to be reduced or eliminated–they were one cause of the Great Depression and they still don’t work well.
A more structural problem is government spending, which can only be paid for with taxes, debt (which means paying interest), or inflation of the money supply. Inflation is like a regressive tax–it affects the poor disproportionately. Subsidies for businesses (including bail-outs) must go, and defense spending (we spend more than the next several countries combined) can be cut, while still making the US military the strongest in the world.
Government needs to get out of healthcare.
If your doctor and you (and parents if you are a minor) decide you need something, it shouldn’t be restricted by law. Gender-affirming care, abortions, and psychoactive medicines are nobody’s business except those involved. I also don’t think anyone who has problems with these types of healthcare should have to pay for someone else’s procedures.
Health care in the US is expensive, which often leads people to suggest that the “free market” is to blame. But the government empowers the American Medical Association to restrict the number of doctors and lobby against other health professionals doing things that doctors do (see this article). US tax law gives breaks to employers (and employees) for health insurance bought through work, which are not available to those who are not employees (making entrepreneurship more expensive, by the way). This article suggests that this raises health care costs for everyone while benefiting higher-income employees more. Hospitals and other health groups lobby or use Certificate of Need laws (thankfully not in California) to stifle competition from new health groups that would force them to compete.
Abortion.
I’ve always been pro-choice, and I don’t think it matters whether you consider a fetus to be more like a fertilized egg or more like a baby. The pro-life position is that a pregnant person should be forced to carry the fetus whether or not they want to. If your position is that the fetus’ right to life gives a responsibility to another person to keep them alive, then it seems logically equivalent that a person who needs a liver or kidney transplant should have a claim on you, the reader, to provide part of your liver or one of your kidneys.
If a person argues that the pregnant person is different because they might have been able to prevent the pregnancy and therefore have given up the right to refuse taking care of the fetus, then they are saying that sex is only for procreation and people should be punished for any other sex they have. Sometimes such people excuse victims of rape (I include incest in the category of rape) because it wasn’t their fault. I agree, but also think that a person who had sex but doesn’t want to be pregnant is not at fault. While I don’t support particular religious views dictating government actions, it’s worth mentioning that I find most religious arguments against abortion unconvincing, and am left with the belief that anger at non-procreative sex is the motivation behind most pro-lifers (especially those who make exceptions).
Oppose War Crimes/Ethnic Cleansing/Genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.
I’d prefer that we didn’t meddle in other countries’ affairs, but at least we can stop giving/selling weapons that are being used criminally. The idea that the United States can decide which state is in control of the area is egotistical at best and colonial at worst. The US involvement in the war crimes (e.g. indiscriminate shooting of unarmed civilians [including fleeing Israeli hostages]) should not be abetted by our government.
Impeach and remove DJT.
I would vote to begin the impeachment of Donald Trump, especially on charges that the Senate would consider sufficient to convict. There are many possible reasons that Trump should be impeached, but he is most likely to be removed for obstructing the Epstein files or allowing ICE to run rampant.
Border crossing.
We need more immigrants, and we need a legal pathway that makes sense. In general, immigrants come to us already grown and often highly trained. They are in general highly motivated and full of respect for the ideals of America, often more so than those of us who just happen to be born here.
It’s also important to note that many who cross into the US don’t want to stay and would rather work here for a while and then enjoy the money they’ve earned in their country of birth, either seasonally or after earning enough money here. Because border crossing is so dangerous, expensive and stressful, some stay when they’d rather not.