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Naturally, the Greens are inclined to prioritize ecological concerns! Here in the Garden State we must protect the earth for future generations. Creative solutions are needed which will allow us to live well without destroying our environment or our social cohesion. New Jersey should continue to ban hydrofracking and prevent frack waste from being disposed of in our state. The Salem Nuclear Generating Station remains problematic from an environmental standpoint. The plant draws billions of gallons of water daily from the Delaware River to cool steam produced during nuclear fission, returning the water to the estuary at elevated temperatures. The Delaware Riverkeeper Network asserts that the plant kills about 48% of the striped bass population in the Delaware River annually; they've referred to the plant as the "largest predator in the Delaware estuary"! Nuclear energy is toxic and expensive. The Green Party says: Decommission the nuclear plants and transitionto renewable energy.
The long-time dominance of the two establishment parties has left us facing egregious inequality and an ecological crisis. That certainly argues for shaking up the status quo! Our political system must be opened up to more voices and more choices. It can be done by enacting Ranked Choice Voting, which enables voters to rank candidates in order of preference (1,2,3, etc.). RCV ensures that the eventual winner has majority support and allows voters to express their preferences without being concerned that they might inadvertently help their least favored candidate. In other words, it frees voters from being pressured to choose between the lesser of two evils. It allows them to vote their hopes, not their fears; and saves public funds by eliminating unnecessary run-off elections. Eventually we should move toward Proportional Representation, where a party that receives 10% of the vote gets 10% of the representation in the legislature.
Too many in our state are precariously employed. The Green Party proposes creating living-wage jobs through a "Green New Deal" program. Rather than funding tax incentives for large corporations, we should be funding jobs that could help us achieve a sustainable economy by focusing on areas such as renewable energy, green retrofits for residential and commercial buildings, expanded and improved mass transit, and promotion of organic agriculture. And we could revitalize community life by having more of our tax dollars go toward supporting our local economies. Meanwhile, it's a scandal that disparities of wealth and income have become so extreme. This is because the government in Trenton responds to the needs of the corporations rather than to social justice initiatives. The affluent can pay the high housing prices; they can afford quality healthcare insurance. But young families are feeling hopeless. We should prioritize their needs using the proceeds of progressive income taxation.
Effective schools have sufficient resources. Too many of our teachers, especially at inner-city schools, are overworked, underpaid, and starved of key materials. Like with the issue of reparations, in order to redress past inequities we should designate a period of time for compensation. Over the course of a generation we could direct relatively more state monies to traditionally underfunded school systems.
The Green Party supports equal access to high-quality education, and significant increases in financial aid for college students. If public K-12 is free, as it should be, tuition at state and community colleges also ought to be free. And we're opposed to trends whereby regimes of high-stakes standardized testing and the wholesale diversion of resources away from public schools are provoking crises for which the bipartisan corporate consensus recommends public school closings and replacement by profit-based charter schools. Public schools are the keystones of our communities!
"Open borders" is problematic because a too-large influx of immigrants tends to lower wages for our workers. Every country puts in place appropriate immigration laws. In our country those laws should be adhered to going forward. But millions flooded in during a period when capitalists were eager to employ cheap labor. Undocumented immigrants were induced to come here under the widespread messaging throughout Latin America about lax immigration laws enforcement and job opportunities. Those undocumented immigrants always suffered from discrimination and below-minimum-wage remuneration. Many just wanted to send money home to their families. They should now be given a pathway to citizenship if so desired. Then we should transition to sanity: Clear immigration laws that are enforced like any other laws are. Meanwhile, the Trump-instigated raids of homes and businesses by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) are terrifying families and disrupting businesses. We should not allow it!
