A Gold New Deal
In November 2018 voters in the NY-19th Congressional had the option of a candidate whose career had been unconventional. Former rapper turned lawyer turned Congressman is an inspirational testimony to what this country makes possible, yet for all his difference, our Congressman has proved blandly conventional.
This November voters in the NY-19th have the option of a candidate with ideas refreshingly novel. Dr Victoria Alexander, Libertarian based in Dutchess County, is running to shake things up in Congress with her Gold New Deal.
No more foreign entanglements of our military and the irreversible, worldwide and stateside pollution which they produce.
No more special interests picking winners and losers in our economy. Stop subsidies to the industries of corn and fossil fuel.
No carbon taxes on industry. That only commodifies the right to pollute and is the commercial equivalent of the sale of indulgences.
No public funding for private gain. If tech industries want to expand and improve the smart grid, then they need to fund that out of pocket rather than bilking taxpayers whom the tech industries will later overcharge as grid customers. Let energy grids in general become free market cooperatives, which decentralizes the influence of big energy corporations.
No destruction of public infrastructure unless structurally unsound. Too often public works are scrapped at the behest of companies bidding on the replacement’s construction. Let the people decide which public works to frequent or avoid.
Dr Alexander also has innovative positions on matters of criminal justice and electoral reform, but you get the picture here. It is no longer enough for our Representative to have an atypical past. Our present issues will never be resolved by the same thinking which got us into them. We need a fresh perspective in Congress which only Dr Victoria Alexander can offer.
Daniel Donnelly, Amenia
Dutchess County Libertarian Party, Vice-Chair
Published October 2020 in the Northern Dutchess News.
