Election Project Roles/Issues Worksheet

Name:

Miguel Garduno

Candidate Name:

Jill Stein

Campaign Role:

Economy

http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Tax_Reform.htm - look at this website

Issue: Tax Plans

What does your candidates website say?

Link:

http://www.jill2016.com/plan, http://www.jill2016.com/platform

Quotes:

-Make Wall Street, big corporations, and the rich pay their fair
share of taxes.-Jill
-Rewrite the entire tax code to be truly progressive with tax cuts for
working families, the poor and middle class, and higher taxes for the
richest Americans.

Notes:
Jill stein plans to make the rich, and big corporations are paying their fair amount of taxes.
Have working poor and middle class families have tax cuts.

Summary: Jill Stein is planning to ensure the richest Americans, and big corporations are
going to pay their fair amount of taxes, so hard working poor and middle class families are
getting tax cuts.

What does an outside source say that SUPPORTS your candidates position?
Link:

http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Tax_Reform.htm

Quotes:

-It's outrageous that the wealth of the top 1/10 of 1% has risen in the past decade while
their taxes are cut via capital gains. No one is even talking, Democrat or Republican,
about restoring the capital gains tax. The solutions even by progressive Democrats
barely begin to scrape the surface of the problem.
-When all state and local taxes are considered, lower and middle income people in
Massachusetts are paying at twice the rate of the top 1% highest income bracket.

Notes:
Its unfair that the wealth who are on the top are 1/10 of 1% has risen in the
past decade while their taxes are cut by via capital gains.
Republicans and Democrats arent talking about restoring the capital gains
tax.
When all state and local taxes are viewed the lower, and middle income people
in Massachusetts are paying twice the rate of the top 1% highest income bracket
Its not a fair system, and Beacon Hill has made it unfair with tax hikes over the
past decade
Summary: Is it fair that the wealth of the top 1/10 of 1% has gone up since the past decade?
While they get tax cuts via capital gains. Not a single Republican or Democrat is discussing
the issue to restore the capital gains tax. Looking at Massachusetts lower and middle income
people are paying twice the rate of the top 1% highest income bracket.

What does an outside source say that OPPOSES your candidates position?
Link:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-case-against-tax-cuts/

Quotes:

-emerging

federal budget surpluses(crops) have sparked

calls for large-scale tax cuts that would be irresponsible
and counterproductive.
-Saving the surplus, by paying down public debt, would
help the economy much more than would tax cuts.

Notes:
Emerging federal budget surpluses have called for large tax cuts that would be
irresponsible and counter productive
Saving the surplus, by paying down public debt would help the economy so
much more than would tax cuts.

Summary: With emerging federal budget surpluses have called for large tax cuts that would
be irresponsible and counterproductive. By saving the surpluses you pay down the public debt
would help the economy so much more than having tax cuts.