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My first priority is to restore agrarian rights and make small farms and natural homes legal again. I am an agrarian and I support rural development, widespread property ownership, and local food production.
My second priority is to explicitly favor small and local businesses over large and national ones. I intend to challenge corporate personhood and shift the tax burden away from small producers to those that extract from our economy and environment.
My third priority is to significantly reform our election systems to promote more political parties and diverse coalitions. I will introduce legislation that replaces our current winner-take-all system with proportional representation to end the two-party system as we know it.
I intend to introduce scale to our tax and regulatory environment to make it easier for small businesses to compete against their national corporate competitors. I also believe it is progressive to end the income tax, and I intend to introduce legislation to shift the tax burden from productivity to higher investment, wealth, excess and pollution taxes. Combined with relaxed zoning laws, individual and small businesses in Minnesota will see a renewed opportunity for growth and prosperity.
I am a strong believer in bottom-up community capitalism. Yet our restrictive zoning laws make it difficult for those that weren't already successful in the 1960s and 70s to break through. It was then, in response to the Civil Rights movement, that Minnesota locked down its agricultural lands and restricted the ability of multi-family homesteads. I believe that legally opening our agricultural lands to a larger diversity of families will unlock generations of health, wealth and parity.
Yes. Because I simply cannot think of any good faith reason not to.
Minnesota has a strong history of protecting our environment, and I support those continued efforts. But our agricultural pollution is a glaring exception. In particular, the southwest part of the state has multiple sites of pesticide impairment, and the southeast part has elevated levels of nitrates throughout. The first step is to legalize small farms to provide alternatives to the conventional model, and then we can begin to appropriately price and tax agricultural pollution.
I support a significant increase in our community police and sheriff department's personnel funding. These people make significant sacrifices for their communities, and they deserve strong compensation and meaningful mental health breaks. We should increase the number of people working to keep our communities safe instead of spending money an militarization and surveillance. And by doing so, we can build communities that are better protected by the full diversity of people that live there.
I support ending corporate personhood and all political donations from corporations and special interest organizations. I support Minnesota's current $1,000 per person spending limit, and I do not believe any corporation or any other entity to should be allowed to contribute to political campaigns. I do believe that businesses and other organizations have the right to voice their concerns, but they do not need campaign contributions to do so.
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1. Fully fund prek-12 and special education because our education system is one of the most important aspects and children are the future of Minnesota.
2. Ensure rural infrastructure (water/sewer treatment plants, roads, etc) is a top priority for bonding as our infrastructure is aging and not keeping up with the growth that our rural communities need to survive.
3. Support small business and family farms. These are the backbone of our rural communities and rural Minnesota; if we lose these, we will lose our way of life.
Reduce the number of unfunded mandates on our small businesses and local governments. Allow communities to make local decisions because they know there needs the best. I would support allocating funds from the state to build affordable housing in communities to ensure growth. To support farmers across the state we need to invest in products that utilize our commodities locally such as oats, corn, and soybeans.
We need legislation to increase school funding for our underserved populations. Ensuring access to education for all Minnesotans is an important issue. In addition, supporting access to rural healthcare and housing is important. Our rural communities are being left without access to local health care provider due to closing of medical centers leaving our rural population at increased risk. Housing in our rural communities continues to be a major issue with lack of affordable housing options.
Yes I would support this. Each person, no matter how they look or their beliefs should have the right to be free of discrimination.
With data centers being such a big topic, Minnesota needs to ensure that our MPCA regulations for data centers are strong enough to protect the environment. With mining opportunities in northern Minnesota, we need to have strong protections against pollution. We need to continue to invest in renewable energy products.
Ensure adequate funding to our rural police, fire, an ambulance services. Most of our small communities are struggling to fund these and keep up with the required maintenance of equipment as well as find volunteers for these services. I think we need to look from a state level on how we support these to ensure our local communities are protected.
I think the state should put more restrictions on corporate PACs. Corporations should not have more say in an election than the people.
