Stein's Stand on Issues

Jill's Plan with Taxes and Jobs:
  • Rich should pay 55-60% tax.
  • Replace trickle down with 50% tax cuts on lower income.
  • Wants to create an abundance of jobs by introducing and transmitting to 100% claim renewable energy.
  • $15 per hour minimum wage.
  • Close existing tax loopholes.
  • Create a system for the total tax burden to be proportion with the income spectrum. 
  • Restore inheritance tax
Background Information on Jill Stein:
  • Studied at Harvard University. Got her BA and MD.
  • Born on May 14, 1950.
  • Born in Chicago, Illinois.
Political Experience:
  • Has been in office: 2005-2011.
  • Green Party nominee in 2012
  • Advocate of a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision.
  • American physician and politician.
  • Ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010.

Other Information:
  • Treat education as a right.
  • Cancel college debt
  • End high stakes testing
  • ​Create Green New Deal to turn the tide on climate change
Concerning Issues:
  • Wants to offer abortion services free to women at the poverty level
  • Predatory capitalism: concrete wealth and lose democracy
  • Wants to protect LGBTQIA+ people from discrimination
  • Wants to replace drug prohibition with harm reduction
“I would feel terrible if Donald Trump gets elected … and terrible if Hillary Clinton gets elected”