15. Hillary and the Republicans opposed marriage equality and supported the discriminatory DADT and DOMA. Bernie is a long-time advocate of same-sex marriage and full LGBT rights, being opposed to DADT, DOMA, and all forms of bullying, discrimination, and injustice. Bernie supported ENDA, VAWA, reproductive health and freedom, pay equity, and actively supports Planned Parenthood, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), the Equality Act, paid parental leave, and paid sick leave.
16. Hillary and the Republicans are opposed to single-payer universal healthcare, allowing private corporations to profit and people to be priced out of the healthcare market, as tens of millions of Americans still are, even with the improvements that Obamacare has brought. Bernie enthusiastically supports single-payer universal healthcare by advocating Medicare-for-All and proposes paying for it with a small tax on Wall Street speculation, which would lead to full coverage for all, better health outcomes, longer lives, less suffering, less anxiety, fewer personal bankruptcies, and economic efficiency.
17. Hillary and the Republicans are opposed to expanding Social Security to lift more senior citizens and others out of poverty. Bernie seeks to expand Social Security for all recipients, paying for that by removing the unfair cap on payroll taxes for high income earners (currently benefiting only those individuals who earn above $118,500 per year), which would also guarantee the solvency of Social Security for a much longer time.
18. Hillary and the Republicans ignore the plight of poor people and their need for banks to cash their checks and receive loans to get them through cash-strapped times, often forcing them to pay usurious fees and high interest rates to predatory businesses. Bernie supports allowing the U.S. Postal Service to get back into the small banking business, as it once was, to help remedy these problems by allowing for check cashing, bill paying, and small loans.
19. Hillary and many Republicans collect a huge amount of campaign contributions from Wall Street and giant corporations. Their donor lists are littered with mega-corporations and billionaires, illustrated by the fact that about 158 families have contributed nearly half of all campaign contributions to the 2016 presidential election to date. Hillary is the top choice of candidates among millionaires. Bernie has raised most of his money from actual people sharing small amounts of their hard-earned incomes to support an independent, fair-minded, caring candidate who always puts people before profits. Bernie is not beholden to anyone and is "Not for Sale!"
20. Hillary and most Republicans are willing to let Wall Street police itself, which we know doesn't work and won't work. While Hillary told Wall Street to "cut it out", Bernie wants to jail Wall Street crooks, break up corporations that are too big to fail, not include Wall Street bankers in his Cabinet, and put a small tax on financial speculation by the wealthy that makes our economy too volatile and use that revenue for universal healthcare and tuition-free public colleges and universities. While Hillary supported the Wall Street bailout, saying that the banks were "the biggest winners", Bernie opposed it. Bernie believes that it's time for Wall Street to finally bail out Main Street, instead of the business-as-usual, top-down, gross economic inequality supported by Hillary and most Republicans.
21. Hillary and the Republicans support the continued overuse of fossil fuels. Hillary was silent on the Canadian Keystone XL tar sands pipeline until finally coming out against it. Bernie has been opposed to the dirty oil and dirty politics of KXL since day one, immediately realizing how disastrous it was and voting against it. While Hillary and most Republicans support dangerous and highly-polluting fracking, Bernie supports the banning of all fracking and all fossil fuel extraction on federal land, opposes Arctic oil drilling, opposes offshore oil drilling, opposes the Kinder Morgan NED pipeline, opposes the Bakken pipeline, opposes billion-dollar subsidies to the oil industry, supports a revenue-neutral carbon price, and supports shifting our country to safe, clean, renewable energies and national energy independence to fight global warming, boost the economy, make America stronger and healthier, make us less reliant on foreign dictators, and bring us into a prosperous, sustainable future with millions of green jobs.
22. Hillary and most Republicans supported NAFTA & the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which as Secretary of State Hillary called the "gold standard" of so-called trade deals before recently pulling back from it (though even many of her supporters concede she would likely flip back to supporting it, if elected, just as she did with the Colombian free trade deal). Bernie has been opposed to NAFTA, CAFTA, TPP, TTIP, TISA, and other so-called free trade deals for big corporations since the very beginning, showing sound judgment, a deep commitment to workers and the environment, decisiveness, consistency, strong leadership, and integrity.
23. Hillary and the Republicans are perfectly fine with private prisons, while Hillary collects a lot of campaign contributions from private prison corporations with their major conflicts of interest. Bernie wants to abolish private prisons and shut down private detention centers, saying that corporations should not be profiting from crime and mass incarceration.
24. Hillary and most Republicans oppose reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment banking from 1933, in response to the Great Depression, to 1999, before the Great Recession. Bernie supports Glass-Steagall to protect us from another fraudulent financial debacle that led to the Great Recession and the massive public bail out of big banks and other big corporations, which Hillary supported and Bernie opposed. Bernie opposed removing Glass-Steagall before the Great Recession and supports reinstating it ASAP, doing everything he can to prevent another Great Recession.
25. Hillary and most Republicans seem delighted and way-too-eager to cater to the top 1%, the multi-millionaires and billionaires as well as the giant corporations that disproportionately control our political and economic systems. In stark contrast, Bernie has for decades championed the needs of the poor, working class, and middle class of America, supporting the desperate and legitimate need of the 99% over the unrestrained and immoral greed of the 1%, passionately and consistently advocating and implementing plans and policies to do so.
26. Hillary and the Republicans don't support expanding voting rights and making it easier for all citizens to vote. Bernie supports universal suffrage, supports automatic voter registration, supports expanding the Voting Rights Act, supports Election Day being a federal holiday called Democracy Day, supports ex-felons not being permanently disenfranchised, supports Instant Runoff Voting for electoral efficiency and fairness, supports overturning Citizens United so billionaires can't buy our elections, supports the Disclose Act, supports his Democracy Is For People amendment, supports reining in partisan gerrymandering, and supports the eventual public funding of elections, demanding that our government represent we the people.
27. Hillary and most Republicans support mandatory minimum sentencing, which ties the hands of judges and leads to more people being imprisoned for longer sentences than anywhere else in the world. Bernie opposes mandatory minimum sentences and seeks to reduce mass incarceration. Bernie also wants to reinstate federal parole.
28. While Hillary and most Republicans supported the privacy-invading SOPA, PIPA, and CISA, Bernie opposed those internet censorship bills. Bernie believes net neutrality is "absolutely imperative".
29. While Hillary and most Republicans supported NDAA, which gave the military power to indefinitely detain even American citizens without due process or trial, Bernie opposed it, sticking up for people, the Constitution, and the rule of law.
30. Unlike Hillary and the Republicans, Bernie wants to cap exorbitant ATM fees and to cap usurious credit card interest rates to reduce big bank exploitation of ordinary Americans. Unlike Hillary and the Republicans who work for the big corporations, Bernie works for the American people.
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