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Old-age insurance under state laws — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.69	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Unemployment insurance	Unemployment insurance under state laws
0.64	1932	Norman Thomas	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Old-age pensions for men and women sixty and over
0.58	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Sickness and health insurance	Sickness insurance as a "minimum requirement" alongside old-age and unemployment insurance
0.53	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Build on the Social Security Act toward economic security for all
0.50	1936	Alf Landon	Unemployment insurance	Leave unemployment insurance to State experiment; no federal tax to compel it
0.49	1936	Alf Landon	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Repeal the compulsory old-age insurance plan; pay every needy citizen over 65 a pension from a direct, widely distributed tax
0.47	1936	Alf Landon	Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges	Keep federal regulation of securities marketing and interstate utilities, vested in independent tribunals under definite standards subject to court review
0.47	1936	Alf Landon	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	Wages, hours and child labor by State law and interstate compact -- and a constitutional amendment giving the States power if the courts forbid
0.46	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Defense of the payroll-tax financing: the employer pays an equal share and the reserves are safe
0.45	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Child welfare and schooling	Maintain the Children's Bureau; keep children in school to sixteen; expand vocational education
0.44	1932	Norman Thomas	Sickness and health insurance	National health insurance
0.42	1936	Alf Landon	Flood control and river-basin development	Federal construction of head-water storage basins to prevent floods, with the consent of the States concerned
0.42	1936	Frank Knox	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	New federal activities only when legalized by constitutional amendment -- 'the horse and buggy method'
0.41	1932	Herbert Hoover	National Prohibition	Resubmit the Eighteenth Amendment so each state may decide, with constitutional guarantees against the saloon and against interference with dry states; enforce the law meanwhile
0.41	1932	Albert C. Ritchie	National Prohibition	Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment as a matter of states' rights
0.40	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	National Prohibition	Repeal the Eighteenth Amendment by state conventions; legalize beer now; states control liquor and bar the saloon
0.40	1936	William Lemke	Minimum wages	A 'living annual wage' -- $1,800 for a family of five -- by federal law and a constitutional amendment if necessary
0.40	1932	Herbert Hoover	Child welfare and schooling	Federal aid to states for child protection and health; continued White House conferences on children, homes and illiteracy
0.39	1932	Norman Thomas	Unemployment insurance	Compulsory unemployment insurance funded by employers and by higher income and inheritance taxes
0.38	1932	Herbert Hoover	Local government consolidation and the tax burden on land	A national review of federal-state-local taxation to relieve farms and homes of property taxes
0.38	1932	Norman Thomas	Independence of the Supreme Court	A Workers' Rights Amendment; curb the Supreme Court's power over Congress; proportional representation; direct election of the President
0.37	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	Meet constitutional obstacles by 'clarifying amendment' -- and say nothing about the Supreme Court
0.37	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Tariff levels	A "competitive" tariff set through a scientific Tariff Commission, with anti-log-rolling rules and a public counsel
0.37	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Preserve the bipartisan Tariff Commission's flexible power to adjust rates without congressional log-rolling
0.37	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Reorganization of the executive branch	A long-range plan consolidating the federal government's scattered public-health and welfare agencies