Caroline Shinkle's Priorities

• Protect the Paycheck – allow people to keep more of what they earn by reducing the federal income tax on W-2 wages. Work is good—let’s reward it, not penalize it through a burdensome tax code
• ‍Build Baby Build – supply-side solutions, not communist price controls. ‍Reduce housing costs and increase opportunity for ownership by increasing the supply of high-quality, affordable housing. Leverage advanced technology to build more housing more quickly and more cost-efficiently. Repurpose unused office space, streamline permitting, and advocate for upzoning near transit corridors. Encourage private ownership (not collectivism) and investment to increase supply and incentivize moratorium on property taxes and development fees‍
• Support strategic, common-sense deregulation ‍to allow industry and innovation to flourish and combat the mass exodus of jobs, opportunity, investment, and capital out of New York City‍
• Balance the federal budget ‍through balanced budget amendments and zero-based budgeting to keep Washington spending in check, help cure inflation, and drive down the cost of capital‍
• Lower the cost of living through increasing energy production and promoting an all-energy-options-on-the-table approach and common-sense, strategic deregulation

• Revamp and revitalize the quality and affordability of our education system. Treat education expenses like business expenses and reward students who invest in themselves by making the interest on student loan payments fully tax deductible, with no income caps
• Foster excellence by treating every student like an honors student and leveraging best practices to improve student outcomes. Integrate technology and innovation to enhance the classroom experience and provide tailored resources to students
• Empower parents with school choice and greater curriculum transparency
• Invest in trades and vocational training to create pathways to high-paying careers for all students
• ‍Invest in STEM education and marketable skills for the 21^st century to prepare our students for success 

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• Prioritize the safety and security of New Yorkers and their livelihoods through a pro-safety, pro-community law enforcement agenda ‍
• Champion, support, and empower our law enforcement officers and first responders‍
• End the revolving-door policies that return violent offenders to our streets‍
• Ensure federal prosecutors have the resources to tackle crime including retail theft, drug trafficking, and subway assaults‍‍
• ‍Expand mental health programs‍
• Address homelessness with federal incentives for cities to offer voluntary gig economy work to individuals able to reenter the work force‍
• Restore accountability to the criminal justice system

• Track down and prosecute the sources of funds supporting antisemitic violence
• Unapologetically stand with the Jewish community of New York City and our ally Israel

• Reintroduce competition into the healthcare marketplace and enhance price transparency to ensure the system works for patients and providers, not just the insurance companies
• Pass the Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act‍
• Root out the fraud and corruption riddled throughout our healthcare insurance industry to ensure our safety net is available to those who truly need it and to ensure the hardworking American taxpayer is not being forced to finance fraud 

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• Protect the homeland through a peace through prosperity and peace through strength agenda
• Stand with our allies by leveraging our unique position on the world stage to strategically promote the principles upon which our country was founded
• Diplomacy via strategic economic policy t‍o exert pressure on our adversaries ‍
• Incentivize innovation and technology advancement domestically to counter our adversaries

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