In addition, penalties for pollution of the environment by industrial actors will be increased, assessed, and enforced, the proceeds of such actions to be reserved for environmental reclamation. Many major industries have, over time, received special protection for their activities, yet their processes often pollute areas that we all hold in common, from rivers and lakes to wetlands and groundwater. The price of doing business must include responsibility to the shared environment, including reclamation of vegetative and/or wilderness areas devastated by clear-cutting, strip mining, or other resource extraction.

Now let us consider education. Public education must be free to all, and it must be adequately funded. Our proposal has a twofold component, (1) substantive and (2) econo

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Race and ethnicity have proven to be among the most fractious issues of public discourse around the world. We must begin by insisting on the absolute equality before the law of persons of