Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein is no stranger to running for office. She has run twice for governor in her home state of Massachusetts as a Green (including finishing third in 2002 behind a guy named Romney), as well as running for state and local races there over the years.
But now she’s in the national spotlight, and she’s loving it. Stein spoke with CL this past Saturday evening while traveling by train on the campaign trail.
CL: President Obama wants to reduce the deficit in part by bringing back the Clinton tax rates of the 90’s, eliminating most of the Bush tax cuts. However, he’ll still keep the tax cuts for those making less than $250,000. Why not remove all of them?
Jill Stein: We would make reforms that would make the tax system fairer, because right now working people, everyday people, are kind of being thrown under the bus, in all kinds of ways, and the wealthy few are making out like bandits, paying a small fraction of what they used to pay to keep the economy going, and right now it’s not exactly going, and so there needs to be kind of a more equitable tax system.
This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2012.