Mike Gravel

Candidate's Website, 2019

Sen. Gravel does not mention the "Trump tax plan" specifically on his website, but he generally supports a more progressive tax system. His website states:

"The United States should:

• "Repatriate all wealth currently residing in off-shore tax havens and that are therefore avoiding taxation, with a one-time tax rate of 24 per cent.
• "Institute a tax on all financial transactions - a Tobin spot tax - on all speculative financial transactions, including but not limited to foreign exchange trading.
• "Marginal tax of all income over $1 million at 60 percent, incomes over $5 million at 70 percent, incomes over $10 million at 80 percent, and incomes over $20 million at 95 percent.
• "Raise the capital gains tax.
• "Eliminate all tax expenditures designed to benefit oil, gas, and coal companies.
• "Explore a progressive tax on initial public offerings, to increase as the size of the IPO increases.
• "Eliminate tax expenditures that benefit the wealthy.
• "Cap tax expenditures for households making over $130,000 at $8,000 a year."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should ... Offer immediate legal status to all undocumented immigrants who have resided in the country for more than three years on a three-year pathway to citizenship."

Candidate's Website, 2007

"While Senator Gravel fully supports the 2nd Amendment, he believes that fundamental change must take place with regards to gun ownership. The senator advocates a licensing program where a potential gun owner must be licensed as well as properly trained with a firearm before they may own one."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should:

• "Pass an amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing the rights of all citizens to basic bodily autonomy including the rights to contraception, to safe and legal abortion, and to gender transition. This could be included as part of an updated Equal Rights Amendment.
• "Ban all bills erecting barriers in the way of access to safe abortion, for example Texas House Bill 2 imposing supply-side abortion restrictions.
• "Repeal all laws restricting health insurance coverage of abortion from private insurance and medicare.
• "Ban predatory crisis pregnancy centers which manipulate and shame women into carrying to term children they are unable to support and replace these dishonest institutions with government funded clinics which offer strictly accurate medical information and promote safe responsible use of abortion."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should:

• "Pass an amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing the rights of all citizens to basic bodily autonomy including the rights to contraception, to safe and legal abortion, and to gender transition. This could be included as part of an updated Equal Rights Amendment.
• "Ban all bills erecting barriers in the way of access to safe abortion, for example Texas House Bill 2 imposing supply-side abortion restrictions.
• "Repeal all laws restricting health insurance coverage of abortion from private insurance and medicare.
• "Ban predatory crisis pregnancy centers which manipulate and shame women into carrying to term children they are unable to support and replace these dishonest institutions with government funded clinics which offer strictly accurate medical information and promote safe responsible use of abortion."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should: Remove marijuana from the list of drugs on the Controlled Substance Act and add an amendment to the Constitution to ensure that it is fully legal nationwide."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should ... Establish a national $15 minimum wage and eliminate the tipped minimum wage. The minimum wage would be indexed to the Consumer Price Index."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should ... End subsidies and special tax breaks to fossil fuel companies while enacting just as aggressive or even more aggressive subsidies for renewable energy production: we cannot give special treatment to pollutants that threaten our planet."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should ... Institute a national Renewable Portfolio Standard, requiring all utility companies to receive a certain percentage of their energy from renewable sources each year. In the first year, this amount could be set at 15 or 20 percent; within twenty years, it would reach 100 percent."

Book, 2008

"The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act on twenty thousand foreign goods, passed under Hoover in 1930, had made the Depression worse. Some members of Congress today are toying with the same mistake with proposed tariffs on China, which could spur a worldwide economic downturn." (A Political Odyssey by Mike Gravel)

Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2019

"Donald Trump - like George Bush before him - should have been impeached and removed long ago. The Russia stuff is largely irrelevant. The real impeachable offenses are his racist words and deeds, his atrocities in Yemen, and the dishonor he brings to this country every day."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should... Invest $1.5 trillion in infrastructure over a ten-year period."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should: Institute a policy of open borders, with absolute freedom of movement into and out of the United States (with exceptions for criminals attempting to escape the law)."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should ... Increase funding for drug treatment programs dramatically. Naloxone must be provided to protect us from fentanyl, plentiful rehab centers must be run and run well, and addicts must be helped, not hurt."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should:

• "Draw on good practices in universal health care provision from around the world in order to construct the best possible approach suited to the specific profiles and health care needs of the American population.
• "Use resources freed up from the wasteful wars of choice, military overreach, and generated from revenues raised from progressive taxation of wealth and income, to offer a publicly-run and -financed national health service.
• "With Medicare-for-All as a medium term transitional system, the ultimate aim is a 'Veterans Administration-style healthcare for all,' or 'VA4A' for short.
• "Institute a single-payer system for all Americans and tax-paying permanent residents irrespective of income and employment status.
• "Provide full coverage as is, to date, provided by private health insurers, including dental, vision, and hearing services.
• "Retain private health insurance companies to provide ancillary health and social care services."

Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2019

"Our solution is obvious: Lift the sanctions. Meet with Kim and Moon. End the Korean War. Recall our troops. Then - and only then - do we even broach full denuclearization."

Other, 2007

Asked, "Would you raise withholding taxes, trim benefits or raise the retirement age to extend the life of Social Security?" Gravel answered, "None of the above. I would start by changing our whole system of revenue to a fair tax. Our system, our income tax system, is corrupt. The Congress raids the income tax surplus and has been spending it on day-to-day operations. We need something a little more fundamental than that."

Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2019

"A forgotten note amidst all this: why NOT seek peaceful relations with Russia, including the end of sanctions? We should seek peace with every country. Yet both parties seek war and profit and nothing else."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should...

• "Make all public universities and graduate schools absolutely tuition free by providing funding directly to states.
• "Announce a one-time 'Student Debt Jubilee,' with all student debt held by the U.S. government being forgiven.
• "Provide debt forgiveness, paid for by the government, of the first $25,000 of private student loan debt."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should: Institute a carbon tax and dividend scheme, as proposed by Matthew Bruenig, with an initial price of $230 per ton of CO2 (The amount would be indexed to inflation and might be raised in the future). All funds from this tax would be redistributed to households, with poorer households receiving a larger proportion of the tax."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should: ... Rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, popularly known as the Iran nuclear deal."

Candidate's Website, 2019

"The United States should: Rejoin the Paris Agreement and be a full party to its decisions."