[1682] Party Manifesto

[Soraya Hoseini]

 

My fellow Aldurians,

I send the warmest regards, from my family and me, to every Aldurian. Every election gives all of us an opportunity to ponder what kind of country we want, and who can lead to make that vision real.

The opportunity is here to steer the ship of state, to bring leadership to Punta Santiago that will lead Alduria to a new period of strength, unity, and prosperity.

The Aldurian National Alliance is the party to steer Alduria to a better direction. We will fight for you in Parliament to make health care affordable and accessible, create a top-notch education system for our children, and ensure that our military is the best equipped, best trained, and best supported.

Our party believes that Alduria’s best days are still ahead of us. Our country is young and vibrant, and with this election, we have an opportunity to create a better government and build a better, more prosperous society.

I commend to you our party’s platform, with a myriad of plans and solutions to shape a new national vision, a new national future.

For a future you can believe in – vote for the prosperity party, vote for the Aldurian National Alliance.

Thank you,
ROBERT BEAUMONT

 

NATIONAL SECURITY

The Verionian-Raspur War has brought the unstable international order to the forefront concern of the country. It is important now, more than ever, that we have a military that is well-funded, well-trained, and well-led. For us to be strong and be a good partner to our friends and allies, we need to take immediate action to secure our country.

The ANA will:

• Work with military officials and Parliament to increase defense spending, expand our military capacity, and modernize its capabilities;
  
• Empower the Secretary of Defense and our military commanders to make decisions, seize the initiative, and win without micromanagement from Punta Santiago;
  
• Create two new branches of the Aldurian military: the Strategic Force, for space, and the Cyber Force, for cybersecurity, to ensure our nation is safer in new frontiers that are not currently part of our national security strategies;
  
• Reject and fight foreign colonial expansionism in our home continent and work with Euran nations to create a secure and stable future for our Euran community and prevent ensnaring Alduria into a state of permanent economic vassalage;
  
• Establish an official policy for the use of force, setting it as our last resort, not our first, to be used only to defend our vital interests, when the objective is clear and achievable, and with the informed consent of the Aldurian people;
  
• Build a modern, agile Department of State by investing and creating the finest diplomatic corps in the world and leveraging the full talent and richness of our country's diversity;
  
• Strengthen cooperation with democratic partners in the Raspur Pact and beyond, and reaching out to our partners in Eura to fortify our collective capabilities while integrating our allies in Benacia and Keltia.
  

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY

We know businesses are at the heart of a successful economy. That’s why we will continue to back businesses with lower taxes, better infrastructure, and new trade deals around the world to make people better off here at home. The ANA will implement policies to create more higher-paying jobs, fund spending on our shared priorities and get Alduria on the road to a brighter future.

The ANA will:

• Create a National Skills Fund for Aldurian citizens, alongside other major national investment in skills, professional development, and training and our reforms to high-skilled immigration, to help ensure that businesses in Alduria can find and hire the workers they need;
  
• Strike the right regulatory balance between supporting excellent business practice and protecting workers, consumers, and the environment;
  
• Establish a low corporate tax for Alduria, to attract talent, investment, and economic growth;
  
• Establish a National Childcare Fund for Aldurian citizens, to help create more high quality, affordable childcare, including before and after school and during school holidays.
  

EDUCATION

One of the pressing issues before us in this election is the brewing education crisis in this country. We're missing a key opportunity to establish a national education system that guarantees every child receives an education that can equip them to support themselves, their families, and their communities. 

The ANA will:

• Build a national education system that provides compulsory elementary and secondary education to all Aldurians for free up to age 18;
  
• Create a National Higher Education Grant for all Aldurian citizens to attend a college, university, trade school, or specialized career school;
  
• Freeze tuition on all public higher education institutions;
  
• Invest in building the proper infrastructure and facilities to support an advanced education system, including books and materials for students;
  
• Create teacher and educational recruitment programs to find teachers, school administrators, and educational experts and ensure that they undergo proper training and are paid well to ensure retention;
  
• Designate educational resources for support and inclusion for children with disabilities, and promote a culture in schools of respect and duty;
  
• Give the national education system high importance as an effective way to provide children and families with assistance outside of schools, such as ensure each student a free breakfast, a free lunch, and provide access to extracurricular after school activities to further their education;
  
• Establish a basic national curriculum that takes into account the economic needs of the country.
  

HEALTH CARE

The ANA wants to make sure there is universal, affordable health care coverage for all Aldurians, but the ANA also believes that the choice of service should be on patients and their families. Our plan will promote a variety of healthcare options, all based on individual needs, including public, private for-profit, and private not-for-profit choices.

The ANA will:

• Control the cost of life-saving prescription drugs, through negotiating drug prices, using international reference pricing, forced licensing, public manufacturing facilities, and importation;
  
• Invest in technologies to finally make health services function efficiently and reduce waste by utilizing modernized services like telehealth and assistive technology;
  
• Establish a national healthcare system called AlduCare that will provide a buy-in option for Aldurians who cannot afford private insurance to obtain comprehensive healthcare and regulate the private market to encourage competition and bend the cost curve of healthcare down;
  
• Change the incentive structure by offering flexibility to health care providers, prioritizing patients over paperwork, and increasing the supply of practitioners;
  
• Respect the sanctity of human life by respecting the ban on the death penalty and by making abortion illegal except in cases of rape, incest, and the health of the mother;
  
• Ensure crucial aspects of wellbeing, including mental health, care for people with disabilities, maternal care, dental, and vision are addressed and integrated into comprehensive care by all public, private for-profit, and private not-for-profit health care providers.
  

TAXES

The ANA believes that the government should be a careful and prudent steward of the national treasury. We understand that the taxes and fees that go into the national treasury are money that should be spent wisely and effectively to serve the people. The ANA has a plan to make sure that our tax policies encourage growth, can fund our national programs, and foster national unity.

The ANA will:

• Implement a system whereby taxpayers can opt-in to a program to have their taxes filed automatically and electronically;
  
• Instruct our government to prepare a report on national spending, and send each taxpayer a rundown of the actual amount of their taxes that went to each major spending area (e.g., domestic programs, foreign aid, military, etc), and allow each taxpayer to select a project for 1% of their taxes to go to;
  
• Implement a Value-Added Tax at 10% to fund health care and education, varying based on the good to which it's applied, with staples such as food, medicine, and clothing being excluded, with luxury goods having a higher rate;
  
• Implement a flat-rate Income Tax with a standard tax exemption to implement a negative income tax in Alduria that will deliver direct relief to Aldurians who make below 30,000 ecus a year, creating a basic income guarantee.
  

GUN RIGHTS

The ANA supports the individual right to defend oneself and to carry arms, as protected and guaranteed in the Constitution. The ANA will protect your right to own and operate a gun for hunting and for self-defense. But we must also make common-sense reforms to ensure that guns never fall in the hands of criminals and murderers.

The ANA will:

• Implement and fund a series of national voluntary weapon buyback programs, funded with a starting seed provided by the national government but increasing based on the success of the programs;
  
• Ban anyone with a history of violence, domestic abuse, or violent mental illness from being allowed to obtain a gun;
  
• Invest heavily in law enforcement training to de-escalate situations involving firearms and provide funding to programs that involve mental health professionals in de-escalation situations;
  
• Require that all gun sales in Aluria are registered with the government and that gun retailers obtain a special gun-sale license, renewable every 5 years;
  
• Require every gun buyer to pass a criminal background check.
  

IMMIGRATION

The ANA believes that Alduria is a nation of immigrants. Our nation benefits from immigration and there's no better place for Micras' talent to come to start a business, form a family, and create a prosperous life for themselves. However, we need to make sure that the economic interests of Alduria come first and that our borders are protected. We are all Aldurians, one united nation, and our immigration policy should reflect that.

The ANA will:

• Invest in the Aldurian Border Guard to hire more full-time members to patrol and secure the border;
  
• Build a state of the art national border monitoring system that is modern and technologically advanced to prevent illegal border crossings and ensure border communities are safe;
  
• End unlimited migration and instead establish a skills-and-assimilation-based immigration system that prioritizes talent, ability, and special circumstances, with total and country-based quotas to cap the number of new entries;
  
• Narrow the Law of Graces to former Alexandrian and Caputian citizens only. 
  

VALUES

Our party believes that our society is important and must be strengthened by the values that Aldurians hold dear and near to their hearts. We reject the morally-relativistic ideas of others to embrace a greater role for families, for parents, for churches, and for communities.

The ANA will:

• Enact policies that are aimed at protecting the sanctity of life and fostering a culture that values life by outlaw abortion except in special cases and keep the death penalty illegal;
  
• Deliver on a bathroom bill that will protect children and women in public restrooms and medical facilities;
  
• Oppose the erosion of the sanctity of marriage and define marriage as the union of one man and one woman;
  
• Criminalize marijuana and oppose all legalization of drugs, while imposing sin taxes on alcohol, tobacco, gambling, pornography, and other legal antisocial substances;
  
• Include in national health care policy a wide array of private, public, and not-for-profit options for the full and comprehensive rehabilitation and medical care for addicts across the country;
  
• Protect and improve public services as fundamental to the well-being of our nation, in a mixed economy that offers good and accessible public, private, and not-for-profit options and providers.
  
• Seek greater transparency in our campaign finance system so money, foreign and domestic, won’t pollute our politics;
  
• Institute strict conflict-of-interest and anti-corruption policies across the national government, Parliament, and other public institutions;
  
• Revitalize our national commitment to advancing human rights and democracy around the world.
  

CRIME

The ANA believes that the first line of order and security for our communities is its first responders: police, fire, and emergency medical personnel. That is why we believe that any solution to fighting crime must involve their welfare, security, and professional development. The ANA commits itself to hire 20,000 new first responders, devoting 50% of that amount to rural Aldurian communities specifically. The ANA will make our streets safer so that the law-abiding majority can live their lives free of the fear of crime.

The ANA will:

• Hire 20,000 more first responder personnel, devoting half of the amount to Aldurian rural communities;
  
• Establishing a National Policing Board to establish national standards of accountability for law enforcement and administer a recurring national recruitment campaign for police officers;
  
• Empower police officers with enhanced powers, including stop-and-search, as part of our efforts to crack down on violent crime;
  
• Equip police with the tools they need to keep themselves and all of us safe, including body armor, tasers, and body cameras;
  
• Build new modern, efficient prisons to better reform criminals, providing them with opportunity for rehabilitation and personal improvement, and keep the public safe.