User:Sarsath3
Progressive Christian Party | |
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| Leader | Raphael Warnock |
| Newspaper | Amos |
| Student wing | Christian Students of America |
| Youth wing | Young Progressive Christians |
| Women's wing | The Progressive Christian Women's Organization |
| Overseas Wing | Progressive Christians Abroad |
| LGBT wing | LGBT+ Christians |
| Workers wing | Christian Workers |
| Ideology | Progressive Christianity Christian left Christian environmentalism Christian feminism Social gospel Social democracy YIMBYism Pro-nuclear energy Carbon tax Land value tax Four-day workweek Anti-populism Factions: Christian socialism |
| Political position | Center-left to left-wing |
| Religion | Christianity |
| National affiliation | Left coalition |
| International affiliation | Progressive Alliance |
| Colors | Dark green |
| Slogan | "What you have done to the least of these, you did for God" |
| Seats in Congress | 29 / 450
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Ideology and platform[edit]
Economic policy[edit]
- Elimination of right-to-work laws.
- Implementation of a federal land value tax and carbon tax.
- Destigmatizing discussions of wages between co-workers.
- Four-day workweek and a six hour workday.
- Free trade and elimination of all tariffs.
- 30% or higher corporate income tax rate.
- Reintroduction of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.
- Increasing the federal minimum wage to $15.
- Implementation of universal healthcare, citing Tommy Douglas as an example of a prominent Christian who supported this policy.
Legal policy[edit]
- Having state and local judges be appointed rather than elected.
- Revising the Twenty-second Amendment to allow presidents to serve four terms (sixteen years total) instead of two (eight years total).
- Adding a maximum term limit of twenty two-year terms (fourty years total) for members of Congress.
- Imposing a maximum age limit of seventy-five years for government officials.
Social policy[edit]
- Legalization and taxation of marijuana, decriminalization of other drugs.
- Abolition of the death penalty, citing early Christian theologians, such as Origen and Athenagoras of Athens, who opposed it.
- Reforming the US criminal justice system into a rehabilitative one like Norway.
- Reimplementing Roe v. Wade