OPENING STATEMENT

[speech MUST HAVE direct references (quotes, statistics, evidence) stated by your candidate &
presents the Candidates position accurately**, thoroughly, and persuasively.]
** for the candidate

ISSUE: Tax Plans

SPEECH:
Jill Stein plans to ensure the richest Americans, and big corporations are going to pay
their fair amount of taxes, so the hard working poor and middle class families wont
have unfair taxes. For example, Looking at Massachusetts lower and middle income
people are paying twice the rate of the top 1% highest income bracket. In Washington
state, the poorest are paying 16.9% of taxes, yet middle income classes are paying
10.5%, but the top 1% are only paying 2.8%. Why is the rich paying so little, yet both
middle and lower income are paying way more, so how is this fair?And How much is
Jill Stein going to tax the rich? She says America wasn't meant to be an aristocracy.
22 billionaires have as much money as 50 percent of the US population. We need a
progressive income tax, with the rich paying at least at the 55 to 60 percent level.
Basically Jill stein wants to make sure that no American is getting unfair taxes, so
average Americans like YOU wont have to live in a generation where the rich are only
getting richer while the poor are getting poorer.
ISSUE: Trade Agreements
Jill stein is against the Trans Pacific Partnership (which is a trade agreement) because
it will send jobs overseas, undermine wages at home, and roll back protections for
workers, public health and the environment.
Jill stein plans to replace all corporate trade agreements with fair trade agreements.
She will regulate all financial derivatives and shall require them to be open to all trade.
She will enact fair trade laws that benefits all local workers and their communities.
PBS newshour states that In 2014, our exports of goods and services amounted to
$2.4 trillion, while our imports amounted to $2.9 trillionimplying that our deficit was a
whopping $500 billion. Since the last two years America has been buying goods from
china, mexico, and canada etc. While Americas selling less to other countries, so we
end with losing profits in the end.