Government is a cooperative effort by the American people to take care of each other and improve our quality of life. We use government to provide public benefits that contribute to our shared prosperity, to invest wisely in the American people and in our common future, to ensure that each other’s basic needs are met, to protect each other from harm and to protect everybody’s rights.

We should also increase our efforts to make our economic system more fair and more stable, but that topic needs its own whole issue!

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Roles and Responsibilities of Government

We can communicate what we believe by grouping our policy positions into broader categories about the roles and responsibilities of government. These broader categories explain how our individual policies connect to the larger values-based themes we talked about in the previous issue: What is Democrats’ version of “free markets, low taxes and strong defense?”