One of the things that you see when you read Project 2025 is not just the racist dog whistles, but some ideas that were exactly lifted from some of the most extreme white supremacists ever.
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FINANCIAL REGULATORY AGENCIES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION AND RELATED AGENCIES David R. Burton he primary purposes of the laws and regulations governing capital markets and of capital market regulators are to deter and punish fraud and other material misstatements to investors; foster reasonable, scaled disclosure of information that is material to investors’ financial outcomes and proxy voting decisions; and maintain fair, orderly, and efficient secondary capital markets.
The Securities Act of 1933' and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934? reflect nearly nine decades of rushed and haphazard amendments. The securities laws are now extremely complex and do not constitute a coherent, rational regulatory regime. For example, the current SEC has proposed a climate change reporting rule that would quadruple the costs of being a public company.’ This would have a substantial adverse impact on existing companies. Over time, it would also substantially reduce the number of public companies and therefore the number of investing options available to ordinary Americans. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should be reducing impediments to capital formation, not radically increasing them.
The SEC and Congress should fundamentally reform the securities laws governing issuers, broker-dealers, exchanges, and other market participants. Among other things, they should establish a simplified and rationalized securities disclosure system with:
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Project 2025 - Top Issues
Read Project 2025 on top issues:
Medicare, education, health care, climate change, veterans, energy, birth control, Social Security, overtime, agriculture, mifepristone, Israel, small business, school lunches, disabilities, Supreme Court, abortion, the death penalty, porn, immigration
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Read the Project 2025 Comics
Comics explaining Project 2025 (https://stopproject2025comic.org/):
"Project 2025 is a detailed plan to shut you up, and shut you out.
Don’t let it do either.
Read on, then vote."
Comics explain Project 2025 by topic: Children. Health care. Voting. Taxes. Climate. Education. And more.
Read Project 2025 in an open, online discussion
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Joyce Vance Columns on Project 2025
Law professor and NBC Legal Analyst Joyce Vance covers Project 2025