American Solidarity Party

The American Solidarity Party, also known as Solidarism and formerly as the Christian Democratic Party USA, is an economically center-left, 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