I'll play.  

- Abortion – Pro-choice. Easy shot for me. 

- Bureaucracy – Lots of people say, 'cut it' as a simple answer. “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. “ - H.L. Mencken. The reality is that it's more complex than that and cuts need to be considered more carefully than 'kill 'em all.' 

- Campaign finance reform/Corruption laws/Term Limits – All measures to make politicians (I refer specifically to Congreasemen and Senawhores here) less beholden to money and more beholden to voters. In fact, this is the first thing that must be done before trying to address any other problems in our system with a prayer of doing so effectively. You will see how this perception colors my responses to everything else below.

- Defense – My response to this is similar to the fears given in Eisenhower's speech upon leaving the White House in 1960; the military-industrial complex has become so large and pervasive that it is literally dug in at the level of congressional districts – cutting it back means cutting jobs and no congressman will do that. At the same time, the need for foreign export sales to keep these companies aloft means that it becomes a factor in our foreign policy. We should be accordingly very wary of not the military, but who and where we sell arms to, as that has consequences. Cut back? Not necessarily. But spend wisely.

- Economics – Ideally, an economy circulates money. I do not see that happening here, nor has it happened for decades. Slowly, the consumer market demand has been drained and that is what fuels new markets for new companies to exploit. Of course, it is not just one policy or one element of society responsible for this pooling of money in one place (investment capital stimulation has been the defacto governing philosophy since the 1970's when it was first done to redress imbalances created from prior policymaking that favored Keynesian approaches) but my mantra here is to consider all the tools at ones disposal to make the economy work the way it's supposed to. Not all problems are nails to be hammered. As to businesses specifically, I do not believe in bailing them out. It should not be necessary. The problem is that we have people in elected office flying top cover for these guys and keeping the competition squeezed. One of these mechanisms is how they tax businesses. See more below.

- Environmental – Quite frankly, regulation is a mess here, but see more on government. When congressmen are industry lobbyists not even interested in making the system work, of course the system's going to be pretty dysfunctional.

- Foreign policy – “Walk softly and carry a big stick.” - Theodore Roosevelt. 

- Government – Despite the prevailing opinion that all government is incompetent, there are certain things that only the federal government can effectively do; regulation of banks and other entities that span more than one state, for example, as well as the funding of scientific research (and education) at a university level that produces advances in theoretical physics like we had in the 1930's, when such things were funded. We'd be having this conversation auf Deutsch without that sort of thing, and a strong scientific education and research community within the US translates to innovations produced in the US. Eventually, jobs and money. The problem with government is that it's easy to give it a bad reputation – there are groups that go out of their way to undermine government regulation and make it look hapless and then trumpet this as a self-made prophecy. It's hard to fight industry lobbyists spending a lot of money to sabotage government and then argue that government isn't working. By lobbyists, I mean 'bought congressmen.'

- Healthcare – In favor of more comprehensive reforms than the ACA; public option with the private insurers doing supplemental policies, which is what we already have for people over 65 and works in every developed world nation worthy of the name except America...except we do it too.  The reality is that under the status quo ante, people went bankrupt from medical bills and then went on medicaid to pay for treatment for conditions at their acute (and most expensive) stage. The taxpayer was assuming the risk for the pool that way. The ACA is an imperfect restructuring from that which didn't go far enough because it was undermined by insurance industry lobbyists in both parties.

- Immigration --  In favor of reform that forces companies hiring under the table, particularly large ones, to follow the law. Much of the reason we have illegal immigration is a strong demand for cheap labor. The hiring of illegals drives down wages for everyone and harms the economy. Legal immigration, however, is a good thing and we need to expand the options.

- Same Sex Marriage - the spirit of the 14th amendment applies here, to me. Also, Loving vs. Virginia, in 1967, pretty much ruled against banning interracial marriage and seems to very much pave the way that two citizens of age ought to have a right to a civil marriage license. Religion can do what it wants in refusing marriages of course, but they shouldn't be dictating who the government grants marriage status to. And it sounds like judges finally see it that way as well. Personally, I was against voting on someone else's rights, but voted 'yes' to a Referendum here in Maryland in 2012 to grant people of the same sex the right to marry. Besides repealing DOMA, this unexpected referendum win turned the tide.

- Taxes – See the tax rates as they existed in the 1950's. I don't think we need to go back to that, but we do need to get back to a progressive tax rate. Also, as big industry lobbyists bitch about the tax rate in America, bear in mind the difference between a statutory and effective rate. That's crucial; the point here is that the small businessman pays the effective (which is onerous) but the big boys pay a very different effective rate because they employ every means at their disposal to lower the bill. Also, as unpleasant as this is to say to a rich person, I'd cap social security payments but not cap social security deductions. I'm sorry someone's taking it in the ass over that, but at least it's not young entrepreneurs having to pay ungodly rates for their mandatory health insurance, but someone that can take that hit.