Indiana Green Party

1. IGP calls for redirecting public tax and infrastructure-based incentive programs away from large and multinational corporations and toward the support of community-based independent businesses, especially in the area of sustainable alternative energy. IGP supports economic development policy aimed at supporting enterprises such as:
• Member-owned consumer cooperatives;
• Worker-owned companies;
• Family-owned small businesses;
• Businesses committed to sustainable models of local economic development;
• Businesses committed to workplace democracy;
• Businesses committed to keeping jobs in Indiana, regardless of the cost of labor elsewhere.
• Businesses committed to effective environmental stewardship.
2. IGP is opposed to urban sprawl. Toward this end:
• IGP supports intra-urban and inter-urban public transportation
• IGP supports sustainable growth that is controlled democratically and locally.
3. IGP opposes the New Terrain Interstate-69 project in Southern Indiana.
4. On the issue of the extension of Interstate-69, IGP supports either:
• The no-build option, or;
• The alternative I-70 and U.S. 41 Route.
5. IGP supports the creation of local currencies to assist in local economic sustainability.
6. IGP proposes stopping and rolling back the privatization of publically owned infrastructure, services, and assets.