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Although {{:Martin O'Malley has not yet released a formal tax plan, he supports the creation of a financial transactions tax. [http://apps.urban.org/features/tpccandidate/ (TPC)] He has also suggested creating a new tax bracket for people earning over $1,000,000 and taxing capital gains at ordinary marginal income tax rates. [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=111178 (DD3)] While governor of Maryland, O'Malley used tax increases to fund many government programs. [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/martin-omalley-believe-candidate-stands-11-issues/ (PBS)] He made the Maryland tax code more progressive by increasing taxes on the wealthy. He believes in funding Social Security benefits by lifting the cap on Social Security taxes. [http://apps.urban.org/features/tpccandidate/ (TPCTax Reform)]}}
===Wages===*Reach wage growth of 4% annually by 2018 [https{{://martinomalley.com/15-goals/goal-1/ Martin O'Malley (MOW-1)]*Increase number of families with adequate retirement savings by 50% within 8 years [https://martinomalley.com/15-goals/goal-1/ (MOW-1)]*Cut the pay gap between full-time men and women workers in half by 2025 through paycheck fairness laws, strong family leave policies, and expanded access to quality, affordable healthcare [https://martinomalley.com/15-goals/goal-1/ (MOW-1)]*Increase the minimum wage and protect rights of all workers to organize and collectively bargain for better wages [http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Martin_O%60Malley_Jobs.htm (OTI)] ===Unemployment===*Cut the unemployment rate among young people in half within 3 years [https://martinomalley.com/15-goals/goal-1/ (MOW-1)]*Reach full employment for American veterans by 2020 [https://martinomalley.com/15-goals/goal-4/ (MOW-4)]*Extend unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless [http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Martin_O%60Malley_Jobs.htm (OTI)] ===Wall Street Reform=== *Require banks to separate commercial Jobs and speculative banking within 5 years [https://14d2r744okfe40r1ug1oqm6y-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OMalley-Wall-Street-Reform.pdf (MOW-WSR)]*Ensure key political appointees are independent of Wall Street [https://14d2r744okfe40r1ug1oqm6y-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OMalley-Wall-Street-Reform.pdf (MOW-WSR)]*Close the regulator/prosecutor revolving door [https://14d2r744okfe40r1ug1oqm6y-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OMalley-Wall-Street-Reform.pdf (MOW-WSR)]**Institute a three-year revolving door ban**Institute an additional three-year mandatory disclosure rule*Immediately double funding for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [https://14d2r744okfe40r1ug1oqm6y-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OMalley-Wall-Street-Reform.pdf (MOW-WSR)]*Elevate focus on economic crimes at the Department of Justice [https://14d2r744okfe40r1ug1oqm6y-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OMalley-Wall-Street-Reform.pdf (MOW-WSR)]**Create a standalone Economic Crimes Division*Immediately reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act and end "too big to fail" [https://14d2r744okfe40r1ug1oqm6y-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OMalley-Wall-Street-Reform.pdf (MOW-WSR)]*Implement a financial transaction tax to limit high-frequency trading [https://14d2r744okfe40r1ug1oqm6y-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OMalley-Wall-Street-Reform.pdf (MOW-WSR)] ===Competition and Anti-trust===*Restore competition and anti-trust laws, taking action within one year in office [https://martinomalley.com/15-goals/goal-14/ (MOW-14Business Policy)]}}
===Affordability===*Encourage states to adopt comprehensive payment reform and consider options like hospital global budgeting, patient-centered medical homes, and accountable care organizations [https{{://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]**Supports an "all-payer" system [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/martin-omalley-believe-candidate-stands-11-issues/]*Improve the value of Medicare [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]**Launch a "Medicare Essential" program to provide comprehensive benefits (hospital, physician, prescription drug, supplemental coverage) in one opt-in plan*Increase support for primary care and promote widespread adoption of medical homes [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Require clarity in healthcare billing and fairness for the uninsured [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Enforce anti-trust law to counter dramatic price increases [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Fight against corporate tax inversions [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Ban price gouging for prescription drugs [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Use the governmentMartin O's purchasing power to ensure reasonable drug prices [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Invest in health information exchanges [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Expand patients' access to their own health data [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Prioritize data security in the transition to electronic medical records [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/] ===Expanded Access to Care===*Build on the Affordable Care Act Malley (ACAHealth Policy) [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]**Ensure access to affordable healthcare for immigrants**Work with states to close the "coverage gap"**Extend access for working families and their children**Treat multi-employer and high-cost plans fairly**Address high deductibles by covering critical services*Support universal access to reproductive care [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]**Promote universal access to prenatal care and family planning**Believes abortions should be legal without any intrusion or interference from the government [http://coed.com/2015/10/29/martin-omalley-2016-platform-on-the-issues-views-stance-presidential-democratic/]*Set a goal for universal access to primary, behavioral, and oral health care, supported by renewed investment in community health centers [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Eradicate lead poisoning by restoring funding for state programs and creating an interagency task force to find solutions to keep children healthy [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Reduce diseases and premature deaths caused by air pollution [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Mobilize communities to address the cause of health disparities [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Expand the National Health Service Corps and Area Health Education Centers and invest in the next generation of the health care workforce [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Task the Department of Health and Human Services with developing the basis for states, health systems, and health care providers for progress in health equity [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/] ===Cures and Healthier Lives===*Invest in NIH and FDA research [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Support promising therapies at every step of development [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Release clinical trial data to advance scientific discovery [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Invest in early childhood health [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]**Provide stable funding for the ACA's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program*Build on the ACA [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]**Protect the Prevention and Public Health Fund*Renew focus on preventing and treating infectious diseases [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]**Set goals for disease prevalence for diseases like HIV, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis*Reauthorize and fully fund the Older Americans Act [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Require Medicare and Medicaid programs to create a consistent set of incentives to encourage community-based care [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Encourage physicians to speak with their patients regarding end of life care and support the implementation of patient wishes [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/] ===Mental Health and Addiction===*Invest in strong community health systems [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]*Integrate behavioral health and physical health care [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]**Introduce new incentives through Medicare and Medicaid to increase ease of access to behavioral health care*Stop the criminalization of mental illness [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]}}
===Drug Overdose and Addiction===*Reduce deaths from drug overdose by 25% by 2020 [https{{://martinomalley.com/policy/addiction-treatment-and-prevention/]*Establish a national dashboard to monitor the overdose and addiction problem, track nationwide responses, and target resources to increase access to critical services [https://martinomalley.com/policy/addiction-treatment-and-prevention/]**Create and adopt a national strategy to reduce addiction to fentanyl Martin O'Malley (a deadly narcotic laced into heroinDrug Policy) within 100 days of taking office*Stop the over-prescription of pain medications [https://martinomalley.com/policy/addiction-treatment-and-prevention/]**Require physician training on pain prescribing**Strengthen prescription drug monitoring programs**Support patient education on pain*Expand access to treatment [https://martinomalley.com/policy/addiction-treatment-and-prevention/]**Expand access to Naloxone (a reversal drug used to treat overdoses from heroin and prescription opioids)**Equip all first responders with Naloxone and ensure all hospitals and first responders can quickly direct patients to effective addiction treatment options**Increase funding for effective therapies**Expand coverage of proven treatments under Medicare and Medicaid**Assure every veteran access to treatment within 12 hours*Invest in community resources for recovery [https://martinomalley.com/policy/addiction-treatment-and-prevention/]**Implement a public health response to addiction**Support community services**Launch a national campaign to reduce the stigma associated with drug addiction ===Marijuana===*Supports the decriminalization of the possession of small amounts of marijuana [http://www.denverpost.com/election/ci_28832902/democratic-candidate-martin-omalley-talks-marijuana-2016-campaign]*Supports the legalization of medical marijuana [http://www.denverpost.com/election/ci_28832902/democratic-candidate-martin-omalley-talks-marijuana-2016-campaign]*Wants to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule II drug [http://www.denverpost.com/election/ci_28832902/democratic-candidate-martin-omalley-talks-marijuana-2016-campaign]}}
Martin O'Malley is critical of the TransMOW-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and rejects any deals negotiated in secret. 4 = Goal 4 [httphttps://www.cbsnewsmartinomalley.com/news15-goals/martin-omalley-to-roll-out-tradegoal-policy4/]
O'Malley will support and negotiate trade agreements only if they: MOW-5 = Goal 5 [https://martinomalley.com/policy15-goals/tradegoal-policy5/]*Reject secret trade agreements and democratize trade negotiations*Prohibit currency manipulation*Prevent corporate power grabs**Oppose investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS)**Put public interests first*Lift labor standards**Protect core labor rights**Set and enforce meaningful labor standards*Improve environmental protection*Uphold strong financial regulations*Provide fair access to markets*Protect access to affordable medicines*Support investment in the U.S. Economy**Ensure that U.S. corporations are taxed fairly, including on their global activities
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==Tax Reform==
==Jobs and Business Policy==
==Health Policy==
==Drug Policy==
==Middle East==
{{:Martin O'Malley (Middle East)}}
==Trade=Foreign Policy===*Adapt national security institutions to better anticipate fast-emerging threats [https://martinomalley.com/policy/foreign-policy/]*"Engage with a new generation of leaders from different walks of life—often in hostile environments where we lack historic ties; where we lack relationships" [https://martinomalley.com/policy/foreign-policy/]*Create a more far-sighted and proactive foreign policy based on engagement and collaboration [https{{://martinomalley.com/policy/foreign-policy/]Martin O'Malley (Trade)}}
===Iran=Immigration==*"Negotiations are the best way to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon" [https{{://martinomalley.com/policy/foreign-policy/]**Supports a verifiable, enforceable, tightly-monitored nuclear dealMartin O'Malley (Immigration)}}
===ISIS=Environmental==*"Containing, degrading, and defeating ISIS will require an integrated approach" [https{{://martinomalley.com/policy/foreign-policy/]**Focus on both military power and political solutions**Amplify credible, local voices in the region and counter ISIS propaganda**Encourage the Iraqi government to govern more inclusivelyMartin O'Malley (Environmental)}}
===Israel=Entrepreneurship and Innovation==*Supports a two-state solution between Israel {{:Martin O'Malley (Entrepreneurship and Palestine [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/martin-omalley-believe-candidate-stands-11-issues/]Innovation)}}
==Sources=Syria===*Opposes a no-fly zone over Syria [http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/11/politics/martin-omalley-against-no-fly-zone/]*Believes that the U.S. should accept 65,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2016 [http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/04/politics/martin-omalley-syrian-refugees/]
MOW ==Trade==Martin O'Malley's website [https://martinomalley.com/]
MOW-1 ===Trade Agreements===Goal 1 [https://martinomalley.com/15-goals/goal-1/]
MOW-14 ==Immigration==Goal 14 [https://martinomalley.com/15-goals/goal-14/]
MOW-FR ===Comprehensive Immigration Financial Reform===*Immediately extend executive action to protect at least 9 million immigrants from deportation [https://martinomalley.com/15-goals/goal-5/]*Provide deferred action to the greatest possible number of immigrants [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]*Grant broad waivers to the three- or ten-year bar and work with Congress to achieve a permanent repeal [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]*Expand parole-infinancial-place to benefit all spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]*Undertake significant outreach and educational programs to promote naturalization [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]*Rescind the regulations restricting health care for deferred action recipients [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]*Limit detention to only those who pose a clear threat to public safety [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]*Close inhumane detention facilities [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]*Expand due process protections in the detention and immigration system [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]*Prevent racial and religious profiling [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]*Disentangle public safety and local law enforcement from immigration enforcement [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]*Ensure a secure border through the strategic use of personnel and technology, extensive training and support for immigration officers, and policies that address the root causes of migration [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]*Focus on priority cases that advance national security, address violent crime or financial fraud, and protect the most vulnerable members of society [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigrationreform/]
MOW-HC ==Environmental==Health Care [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/]
MOW-AT ===Renewable Energy===*Create a Clean Energy Jobs Corps to partner with communities to become more energy efficient, create new green spaces, and restore and expand forests Addiction Treatment [https://martinomalley.com/climatepolicy/agenda/]*Generate 100% of American electricity with renewable energy by 2050 [https://martinomalley.com/climate/agenda/]*Federal legislation that caps on carbon emissions from all sources, proceeds from permits returned to lowaddiction-treatment- and middle-class families and invested in job transition assistance and Clean Energy Jobs Corps [https://martinomalley.com/climate/agenda/]*Reject projects like Keystone XL and deny new permits for drilling in Alaska, the arctic, and off the coast [https://martinomalley.com/climate/agenda/]*Increase royalties and emissions fees for fossil fuel companies currently drilling on federal land and invest proceeds in jobs and skills training [https://martinomalley.com/climate/agendaprevention/]
MOW-FP ===Carbon Emissions===*Caps or taxes on carbon emissions from all sources, proceeds from permits returned to low- and middle-class families and invested in job transition assistance and Clean Energy Jobs Corps Foreign Policy [https://martinomalley.com/climate/agendapolicy/]*Fully implement Clean Power Plan [https://ballotpedia.org/Martin_O'Malley_presidential_campaign,_2016/Taxes]*Adopt a zeroforeign-tolerance policy for methane leaks from current oil and gas production [https://ballotpedia.org/Martin_O'Malley_presidential_campaign,_2016/Taxes]
MOW-TP ==Sources==Trade Policy [https://martinomalley.com/policy/trade-policy/]
MOW -IR = Martin O'Malley's website Immigration Reform [https://martinomalley.com/policy/immigration/]
MOW-1 CEF = Goal 1 Clean Energy Future [https://martinomalley.com/15policy/clean-goals/goalenergy-1future/]
TPC = Tax Policy Center [http://apps.urban.org/features/tpccandidate/]
OTI = On The Issues [http://www.ontheissues.org/Martin_O%60Malley.htm]
DP = Denver Post [http://www.denverpost.com/election/ci_28832902/democratic-candidate-martin-omalley-talks-marijuana-2016-campaign]
CNN [http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/11/politics/martin-omalley-against-no-fly-zone/] [http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/04/politics/martin-omalley-syrian-refugees/]
CBS [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/martin-omalley-to-roll-out-trade-policy/]
Ballotpedia [https://ballotpedia.org/Martin_O'Malley_presidential_campaign,_2016/Taxes]
HP = Huffington Post [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/martin-omalley-civic-tech_us_5628fbece4b0ec0a38935fee]
