The Cafe' [Think Tank]: 2 Years 146 Policies

Donald Trump

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Crime
1	Allow states to legalize marijuana if they chose to do so	25
2	Legalize drugs to take profit away from drug cartels	39
3	Defend the Second Amendment of our Constitution	8
4	Nominate United States Supreme Court justices that will abide by the rule of law and the Constitution of the United States that includes upholding the Second Amendment	0
5	Expand and bring back programs like Project Exile and get gang members and drug dealers off the street	1
6	Empower law-abiding gun owners to defend themselves	9
Education
7	Immediately add an additional federal investment of $20 billion towards school choice	15
8	Give states the option to allow these funds to follow the student to the public or private school they attend	1
9	Establish the national goal of providing school choice to every one of the 11 million school aged children living in poverty	4
10	Work with Congress on reforms to ensure universities are making a good faith effort to reduce the cost of college and student debt	0
11	Ensure that the opportunity to attend a two or four-year college, or to pursue a trade or a skill set through vocational and technical education, will be easier to access, pay for, and finish	2
Environment
12	Make America energy independent, create millions of new jobs, and protect clean air and clean water	17
Families
13	Rewrite the tax code to allow working parents to deduct from their income taxes child care expenses for up to four children and elderly dependents	0
14	Allow parents to enroll in tax-free dependent care savings accounts for their children or elderly relatives	1
15	Provide low-income households an Expanded Earned Income Tax Credit	0
16	Create a new, dynamic market for family-based and community-based solutions.	1
17	Incentivize employers to provide childcare at the workplace	1
18	Provide 6 weeks of paid leave to new mothers before returning to work	2
Foreign Policy
19	Strengthen the U.S. military and deploy it appropriately in the East and South China Seas	44
20	Put an end to China’s illegal export subsidies and lax labor and environmental standards	5
21	Bolster the U.S. military presence in the East and South China Seas to discourage Chinese adventurism	0
22	Enforce stronger protections against Chinese hackers and counterfeit goods	1
23	Adopt a zero tolerance policy on intellectual property theft and forced technology transfer	0
24	Close parts of the Internet to prevent ISIS from attracting recruits	19
25	Increase cooperation between the United States and Russia	7
26	Work with Congress to fully repeal the defense sequester and submit a new budget to rebuild our military	1
27	Increase the size of the U.S. Army to 540,000 active duty soldiers	1
28	Rebuild the U.S. Navy toward a goal of 350 ships	1
29	Provide the U.S. Air Force with 1,200 fighter aircraft	0
30	Grow the U.S. Marine Corps to 36 battalions	0
31	Invest in a serious missile defense system to meet growing threats	0
32	Emphasize cyber warfare	1
33	Pay for this necessary rebuilding of our national defense by conducting a full audit of the Pentagon	0
34	Peace through strength will be at the center of our foreign policy	0
35	Advance America’s core national interests, promote regional stability, and produce an easing of tensions in the world	0
36	Rebuild our military, enhance and improve intelligence and cyber capabilities	0
37	End the current strategy of nation-building and regime change	2
38	Ensure our security procedures and refugee policy takes into account the security of the American people	0
39	Work with our Arab allies and friends in the Middle East in the fight against ISIS	0
40	Pursue aggressive joint and coalition military operations to destroy ISIS	0
41	Defeat the ideology of radical Islamic terrorism just as we won the Cold War	4
42	Establish new screening procedures and enforce our immigration laws to keep terrorists out of the United States	0
43	Suspend, on a temporary basis, immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism	1
44	Establish a Commission on Radical Islam	0
45	Declare American energy dominance a strategic economic and foreign policy goal of the United States.	0
Government
46	Eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in Federal government spending	9
47	Ask all Department heads to submit a list of every wasteful and unnecessary regulation	3
48	Reform the entire regulatory code	0
49	End regulations that force jobs out of our communities and inner cities	0
50	Issue a temporary moratorium on new agency regulations that are not compelled by Congress or public safety	0
51	Immediately cancel all illegal and overreaching executive orders	2
52	Eliminate our most intrusive regulations	0
53	Decrease the size of our government after a thorough agency review	1
Healthcare
54	Increase funding for PTSD, traumatic brain injury and suicide prevention services	3
55	Increase funding for job training and placement services, educational support and business loans	0
56	Transform the VA to meet the needs of 21st century service members	0
57	Better support our women veterans	1
58	Fire the corrupt and incompetent VA executives	0
59	End waste, fraud and abuse at the VA	6
60	Empower the caregivers to ensure our veterans receive quality care quickly	0
61	Hire more veterans to care for veterans	0
62	Embed satellite VA clinics in rural and other underserved areas	0
63	Defund Planned Parenthood	25
64	Ensure our veterans get the care they need wherever and whenever they need it	0
65	Appoint a VA Secretary whose sole purpose will be to serve veterans	2
66	Use the powers of the presidency to remove and discipline the federal employees and managers who have violated the public's trust and failed to carry out the duties on behalf of our veterans	0
67	Ask that Congress pass legislation that empowers the Secretary of the VA to discipline or terminate any employee who has jeopardized the health, safety or well-being of a veteran	0
68	Create a commission to investigate all the fraud, cover-ups, and wrong-doing that has taken place in the VA	0
69	Protect and promote honest employees at the VA who highlight wrongdoing	1
70	Create a private White House hotline, which will be active 24 hours a day answered by a real person	2
71	Stop giving bonuses to any VA employees who are wasting money, and start rewarding employees who seek to improve the VA's service	0
72	Reform the visa system to ensure veterans are at the front of the line for health services	0
73	Increase the number of mental health care professionals, and allow veteran's to be able to seek mental health care outside of the VA	1
74	Ensure every veteran has the choice to seek care at the VA or at a private service provider of their own choice	0
75	Repeal and replace Obamacare with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)	0
76	Work with Congress to create a patient-centered health care system	0
77	Work with states to establish high-risk pools to ensure access to coverage for individuals who have not maintained continuous coverage	0
78	Allow people to purchase insurance across state lines	0
79	Maximize flexibility for states via block grants	0
Immigration
80	Build a wall along the Mexican border	51
81	Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced	1
82	Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans	4
83	Triple the number of ICE officers	0
84	Implement a nationwide e-verify	3
85	Deport all illegal immigrants	81
86	Detain all illegal immigrants until they are deported	2
87	Cut-off federal grants to any city which acts as a "sanctuary city" and refuses to cooperate with federal law enforcement	3
88	Enhanced penalties for overstaying a visa	0
89	Cooperate with local gang task forces	0
90	End birthright citizenship	18
91	Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs	5
92	Require companies to hire American workers first	0
93	End welfare abuse	5
94	Require employers to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers before issuing new green cards to foreign workers	8
95	Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses	0
96	Temporarily halt Muslim immigration as long as the threat of ISIS persists	9
Jobs & Economy
97	Bring China to the bargaining table by immediately declaring it a currency manipulator	3
98	Force China to uphold intellectual property laws	4
99	Put an end to China’s illegal export subsidies and lax labor and environmental standards	1
100	Place a 45% tariff on Chinese exports to the United States	4
101	Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership	3
102	Impose a 35% import tax on Mexican border	2
103	Impose a 20% tax on all imported goods	3
104	Mandate a 15% tax for outsourcing jobs	0
105	Introduce a deficit-neutral plan targeting substantial new infrastructure investments	0
106	Pursue an "America’s Infrastructure First" policy	0
107	Refocus government spending on American infrastructure and away from the Obama-Clinton globalization agenda	0
108	Provide maximum flexibility to the states	0
109	Create thousands of new jobs in construction, steel manufacturing, and other sectors	0
110	Put American steel made by American workers into the backbone of America’s infrastructure	0
111	Leverage new revenues and work with financing authorities, public-private partnerships, and other prudent funding opportunities	0
112	Harness market forces to help attract new private infrastructure investments through a deficit-neutral system of infrastructure tax credits	0
113	Implement a bold, visionary plan for a cost-effective system of roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, railroads, ports and waterways, and pipelines	0
114	Link increases in spending to reforms that streamline permitting and approvals, improve the project delivery system, and cut wasteful spending	0
115	Employ incentive-based contracting to ensure projects are on time and on budget	0
116	Approve private sector energy infrastructure projects to better connect American coal and shale energy production with markets and consumers	0
117	Work with Congress to modernize our airports and air traffic control systems, end long wait times, and reform the FAA and TSA	1
118	Incorporate new technologies and innovations into our national transportation system	0
119	Make clean water a high priority	0
120	Link increased investments with positive reforms to infrastructure programs that reduce waste and cut costs	0
121	Appoint tough and smart trade negotiators to fight on behalf of American workers	0
122	Direct the Secretary of Commerce to identify every violation of trade agreements a foreign country is currently using to harm our workers	0
123	Tell NAFTA partners that we intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement	1
124	Instruct the Treasury Secretary to label China a currency manipulator	0
125	Instruct the U.S. Trade Representative to bring trade cases against China	0
126	Use every lawful presidential power to remedy trade disputes if China does not stop its illegal activities	0
127	Unleash America’s $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas reserves, plus hundreds of years in clean coal reserves	2
128	Become independent of any need to import energy from the OPEC cartel or any nations hostile to our interests	0
129	Open onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands, eliminate moratorium on coal leasing, and open shale energy deposits	0
130	Encourage the use of natural gas and other American energy resources	0
131	Rescind all job-destroying Obama executive actions	0
132	Create a dynamic booming economy that will create 25 million new jobs over the next decade	0
133	Reform policies with a pro-growth tax plan, a new modern regulatory framework, an America-First trade policy, an unleashed American energy plan, and the "penny plan"	0
134	Boost growth to 3.5 percent per year on average	0
Science & Tech
135	Order an immediate review of all U.S. cyber defenses and vulnerabilities	0
136	Instruct the U.S. Department of Justice to create Joint Task Forces to coordinate responses to cyber threats	0
137	Order the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to provide recommendations for enhancing U.S. Cyber Command	0
138	Develop the offensive cyber capabilities we need to deter attacks by both state and non-state actors	0
Taxes
139	Reduce or eliminate most deductions and loopholes available to the very rich	0
140	Eliminate the income tax for single individuals earning less than $25,000 or those married and jointly earn less than $50,000	1
141	Create a 15% flat tax on businesses	0
142	Eliminate the death tax	3
143	Reduce or eliminate most deductions and loopholes available to the very rich	3
144	Introduce a one-time deemed repatriation of corporate cash held overseas at a significantly discounted 10% tax rate	1
145	Reduce or eliminate corporate loopholes that cater to special interests	0
146	Simplify the tax code into four brackets from seven brackets - 0%, 10%