Luke Bronin

His campaign website says he would roll back President Trump's tax cuts for high earners, reverse decades of tax cuts for the very wealthy and add two new top income tax brackets.^5,8

1. Replace the current income tax with a single flat rate or a national sales tax
2. Cut rates further, including the top rate
3. Keep current rates
4. Raise rates on high incomes only (for example, above $400,000)

His campaign website says he would restore the corporate tax rate to 35%, or at least to 28%, and shut down offshore tax avoidance schemes.⁸

1. Raise it, for example to 25% or 28%, or back to the 35% top rate in place before 2018
2. Keep it at 21%
3. Lower it below 21% (for example, 15% for companies that make products in the US)

His campaign website says he would increase the estate tax, end dynastic trusts, make the capital gains tax more progressive and close loopholes that let wealthy families avoid taxes by borrowing against their assets and passing investments to heirs without paying capital gains tax.⁸

His campaign website says President Trump's tariffs and unnecessary trade wars are the biggest example of policy choices that have driven up costs.⁹

His campaign website objects that Medicare and Medicaid may negotiate prices on only a handful of drugs and says the government should negotiate down prescription drug prices.^9,10

1. Repeal or scale back negotiation
2. Keep the program as it is
3. Expand it to more drugs and to people with private insurance

His campaign website says he will work to make sure Social Security is there for people receiving it now and for those paying into it now.¹¹

His campaign website calls for universal, affordable health care with a strong public option that lets any American who wants to join Medicare do so, and supports the Break Up Big Medicine Act to break up health care monopolies.^5,10

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

His campaign website says ICE should be abolished and replaced or rebuilt, with immigration enforcement moved back into an agency with a broader mission and focused on violent offenders and due process.¹²

1. Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
2. Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
3. Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
4. Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records

His campaign website says Democrats should condition Homeland Security funding on reforms including a ban on masks, warrant requirements for arrests and visible identification for officers.¹²

1. Let officers cover their faces and keep their names private
2. Require visible ID and body cameras, but allow face coverings
3. Require visible ID and body cameras, and ban most face coverings

His campaign website calls for comprehensive immigration reform that includes citizenship for DACA recipients.¹²

His campaign website calls for legal pathways that encourage more legal immigration.¹²

1. Admit more immigrants, such as by adding work visas or clearing family backlogs
2. Keep green cards and work visas near recent levels
3. Admit fewer immigrants than in recent years
4. Pause most new legal immigration for a time

His campaign website calls for fair and timely asylum processing as part of immigration reform.¹²

His campaign website says the country does not build enough housing and calls for incentives for development near transit, more flexible federal financing for a mix of market-rate and affordable housing, and new building materials to bring down costs.^9,13

His campaign website calls for expanding access to affordable child care and elder care, raising caregivers' wages and helping families pay for care.¹⁴

His campaign website says he will fight to enshrine protections for marriage equality.¹⁵

1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman

His campaign website says reproductive freedom is a basic human right and that he supports codifying Roe v. Wade.^5,16

1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy

His campaign website says Congress must pass federal protections for abortion access nationwide.¹⁶

1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
2. Leave abortion law to each state
3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)

His campaign website says he will fight to pass the Equality Act.¹⁵

1. Pass broad protections such as the Equality Act
2. Add protections with broad exemptions for religious groups and businesses
3. No new federal protections; leave it to the states

His campaign website lists nuclear power among the clean energy sources it says the country needs to build quickly and at scale.¹⁷

His campaign website calls for modernizing permitting and cutting red tape so energy, housing and infrastructure can be built faster and more cheaply.^9,17,18

His campaign website says he will never accept corporate PAC money and supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and get dark money out of politics.^5,19

1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
3. Keep current rules
4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties

His campaign website calls for banning stock trading by members of Congress.¹⁹

1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports

His campaign website says he will fight for universal background checks.²⁰

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

His campaign website says he will fight for an assault weapons ban.^5,20

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

His campaign website lists red-flag laws among the gun laws he will fight for in Congress.²⁰

1. Adopt more red flag laws, including a national one
2. Leave the choice to each state
3. Repeal existing red flag laws and adopt no new ones

His campaign website calls for a federal AI framework with clear standards for transparency and testing, more investment in the Center for AI Standards and Innovation to test models for safety, stronger export controls on advanced chips, and the GUARD Act to bar minors from AI chatbots.²¹

His campaign website says Congress should build on Connecticut's recent AI legislation protecting kids, workers and whistleblowers.²¹