One wants to Keep America Great; the other wants to Build Back Better. So, what are the candidates' key policies?
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.In what’s been billed as the most consequential US election in recent history, there is a stark choice between two competing visions.
Biden has also vowed to implement a nationwide testing and tracing program, including doubling the number of drive-through testing sites, and would establish a “sustainable supply chain” for personal protective equipment. Biden supports ending the cash-bail system; will move to decriminalise the use of cannabis; and will legislate to repeal mandatory minimum sentences at the federal level.
Biden, meanwhile, has said he wants to protect and expand the policy, partly by lowering the eligibility age for Medicare – yes, it's also called Medicare in the US – from 65 to 60; ensuring that no household is putting more than 8.5 per cent of its earnings into health insurance plans and giving all Americans the option to enrol in a public health insurance plan similar to Medicare to help reduce costs for patients by negotiating lower prices from hospitals and other health care providers.
Biden, on the other hand, has said he will rejoin the Paris agreement if elected and will spearhead an international effort “to get every major country to ramp up the ambition of their domestic climate targets”. Whereas Trump lowered the corporate tax rate from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, Biden says he would raise the rate from 21 per cent to 28 per cent. The Democratic nominee insists his tax increases will impact only those earning more than $US400,000 a year.
Tensions have escalated over the past few months, with US sanctions on Chinese technology firms, the mutual closure of consulates, brawling over the South China Sea, visa restrictions by both countries and the President blaming China for COVID-19.
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