Politophile

Politophile
House Majority Leader
In office February 12, 2018 – April 13, 2018
Preceded by	position established
Succeeded by	Emma
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Southern State
Incumbent
Assumed office February 12, 2018
Chair of the Democratic National Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office January 19, 2018
Preceded by	position established
Personal Details
Born	January 14, 2018
Political party	Democratic

Politophile (/pəˈlɪtəˌfaɪl/; joined January 14, 2018) is an AGS politician and one of the very first members of AmericanGovSim invited by MaTh from ModelUSGov. He is currently serving as the Chair of the Democratic National Committee and as a member of the House of Representatives, representing the Southern State.

Political Views

Politophile is a self-identified mutualist, market socialist, democratic socialist, left-libertarian, liberal, progressive, and Georgist. His political influences are John Stuart Mill, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Thomas Paine, John Maynard Keynes, Benjamin Tucker, Daniel De Leon, Karl Marx, and Henry George.

Economics

As a mutualist, Politophile supports the predominance of employee-owned businesses and their competition within a freed market. He does not support a ban on private industry, but rather the voluntary supplantation of private industry by the working class. He supports equalizing the bargaining power of the owner class and working class through the implementation of a federal job guarantee program; the creation of equal and open opportunity in the economy through the deregulation of banking and startups and the establishment of a democratically-run federal mutual bank, of which every citizen is a member, that provides loans at low interest rates; and the destruction of the land monopoly through a citizen's dividend, funded by a land value tax, to be paid one time to each citizen once they reach the age of majority. All of this, he believes, would allow employee-owned businesses and sole proprietorships to fairly and easily emerge and compete with privately-owned businesses, and eventually overtake them.

Politophile also supports a federally-enforced living minimum wage set at the county level and progressive income tax system consisting of one flat marginal rate and a standard deduction, equivalent to the living income, which can be taken off of corporate and/or personal income taxes

Social Issues

Politophile supports liberal ideas like freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of expression, and overall, the freedom to pursue happiness. He is relatively pro-choice on abortion, but wants the government to keep abortions rare by providing quality sex education and free birth control, and only supports the legality of abortion up until the beginning of the third trimester. Politophile also believes in abolishing private prisons, legalizing all drugs on the federal level, instituting community policing, cracking down on police brutality and corruption, and abolishing capital punishment.