Mike Gravel for President 2008

The Issues

Following are some issues on my agenda:

  • funding education as the top priority it must be in a democracy;
  • repealing the Electoral College;
  • enacting term limits at the federal level;
  • reforming Social Security by putting real money in the Trust Fund, investing it properly and identifying the interests of individual beneficiaries so that they can leave their surplus in the fund to their heirs;
  • enacting a universal health care system covering all Americans from birth to death;
  • rebuilding our gridlocked transportation system and our crumbling national infrastructure;
  • repealing the income tax and closing down the IRS replacing it with a Fair Tax (with a pre-bate for necessities) that will reverse the flight of jobs and capital abroad (the ensuing economic growth that the Fair Tax will induce will pay for my program for health care, education and a new national infrastructure);
  • launching and leading a massive global scientific effort to end energy dependence on oil and integrating the world’s scientific community to this task,
  • taking responsibility and mitigating our nation’s impact on the world’s environment; and
  • organizing and leading an intelligence and police organization of willing nations, similar to NATO, to root out terrorism and addressing its causes through aggressive diplomacy.
  • and of course, The National Initiative which can make all these happen and more.