American Solidarity Party

The American Solidarity Party, also known as Solidarism and formerly as the Christian Democratic Party USA, is an economically center-left to left-wing, culturally center-right political party in the USA.

Economic
The ASP encourages social development along the lines of subsidiarity and sphere sovereignty, with a stated emphasis on "the importance of strong families, local communities, and voluntary associations". The American Solidarity Party favors a social market economy with a distributist flavor, and seeks "widespread economic participation and ownership" through supporting small business. They also call for providing a safety net.

The American Solidarity Party believes that political economy is a branch of ethics, and as such, rejects models of economic behavior that undermine human dignity with greed and self-interest. They advocate for an economic system based off of a society of wide spread ownership (or in other words, )

They wish to do the following:


 * Create conditions which allow single-income families to support themselves with dignity.


 * Support policies that encourage the formation and strengthening of labor unions. Any attempt to prevent unions from rising should be countered


 * Repeal ocorporate welfare policies, for shifting the tax system to target unearned income and reckless financiers, and for changing regulations to benefit small and locally-owned businesses rather than multinational corporations.


 * Restore the requirement that corporations must serve a public good in order to be granted the benefit of limited liability, and support the prohibition of corporate bylaws and the repeal of state legislation requiring shareholder profit to trump considerations such as employee wellbeing and environmental protection.


 * Order The Department of Labor to investigate all cases of wage theft and fraud in a swift manner.


 * Support mechanisms that allow workers to share in the ownership and management of their production, such as trade guilds, cooperatives, and employee stock ownership programs.


 * Require industrial policy and economic incentives to place human dignity first and to recognize that the family is the basic unit of economic production, and support policies that emphasize local production, family-owned businesses, and cooperative ownership structures.


 * Reduce the monopolistic power of corporations


 * Support and encourage measures which allow local communities to limit the power of outside interests in managing their land. Tenant unions, community land trusts, and community-oriented development are to be supported in the effort to ensure the availability of affordable and inclusive housing.


 * Build social safety nets that adequately provide for the material needs of the most vulnerable in society.


 * End the FICA Tax Cap


 * Allow beneficiaries to take their benefits in the form of start-up capital to start or purchase businesses or create cooperative enterprises that help them to escape poverty on their own terms as means of unemployment benefits


 * Implement policies that deliver citizens their fair share of our common wealth and inheritance of natural resources


 * End predatory practices which care more for stockholder value than human life


 * Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy

Life
The American Solidarity Party is founded on an unwavering commitment to defend life and to promote policies that safeguard the intrinsic dignity of the human person from conception until natural death. They advocate legal protections for vulnerable persons, as well as laws that facilitate authentic human freedom and ensure that all people have access to everything they need to thrive. The party’s whole-life approach guides the entire platform below, including subsequent segments on the right to a social safety net, criminal justice, and foreign policy.

They wish to implement the following measures:


 * Laws that would ban or restrict abortion, on either the federal or state, as they believe that life begins at conception and ends at natural death. In addition they wish to cut funding to abortion clinics


 * Abolish the death penalty


 * Prevent suicide and ban euthanasia


 * Establish universal healthcare by diverse means, including single-payer initiatives, direct subsidization of provider networks, subsidized education for medical professionals willing to work in rural areas, support for cost-sharing programs and mutual aid societies, home care grants, simplified regulation, and the easing of restrictions on the importation of prescription drugs. They also wish to give protections to those with pre-existing conditions.

Family
They believe that the family structure - a union between a man and a woman - is the fundamental unit and basis of every human society, and see family breakdown as a cause of widespread social problems. They believe that it’s in the interest of the state to support marriage recognized exclusively as a union between one man and one woman, although they recognize that the state must support the needs of people—especially children, as well as the elderly and disabled—in families of all kinds.

They wish to implement the following policies:

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