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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Writing "Abolish PACs and lobbying" implies reverting Citizens United v FEC so you probably don't need a separate list item for it

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Again, replace the senate with proportional representation. Bicameral legislatures work, there's no reason to be rid of the senate. Just give it a purpose beyond "you represent a state". Expand the senate to 600 seats, National votes for party reps, 0.5% threshold to gain a seat, 6 year terms, rotate every two years. Then we'll get actual third parties into office, which will break up the two party strangle hold.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Mandatory voting I dunno.

The rest are definitely good, I'm thinking just having a whole ass revolution might be easier than getting all this done, and as a bonus would come with additional benefits.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Can someone explain to me what "collateral for loan is realized gain" means?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Basically (and I'm not an expert here), the Uber rich get tax free spending money without taking big taxable salaries by leveraging their assets for super low interest loans. Current tax codes don't consider these loans as taxable income, but they're being used for the same things us peasants use our income for. By considering these cash flows as taxable, billionaires wouldn't be able to hide behind the "it's net worth not liquid income" bullshit these use to dodge taxes.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Limit the age for candidates, to the pension maximum

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Three the most important things are missing:

  • abolish home education;
  • mandatory elementary education;
  • get rid of multiple-choice tests.

Most of the changes won't matter if people are uneducated or easily misled.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The America patch notes of our dreams

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Mostly. I'm fine with some of these being left up to the states, like prostitution and marijuana, although I do think marijuana's federal status should change (from schedule 1, to a much lower schedule). Also, I think the highest tax bracket should be 99%, or even 100%. But that highest bracket should be a very high number, like 0.001% of GDP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

UBI requires such a large reorganization of the economy that you may as well add democratization of the workplace, and it would get done earlier. I think both would be great personally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Legalizing Prostitution just creates more Human Trafficking, as a result of allowing human traffickers to operate in the open under the guise of legality. We have decades of evidence that lead to this conclusion. We don't need to keep trying it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Excellent project OP, this is cool

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