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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

All excellent ideas.

Now how do we afford to bribe all of the politicians to make this happen?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

"Abolish corporate personhood" doesn't go far enough. Abolish corporations. Companies over a certain size should be forced to convert to either a worker-owned co-op or a non-profit organization. Human society needs to evolve past being centered around maximizing shareholder profits.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Not sure what is called, but ban and back tax/punish people/companies who use those foreign PO boxes and claim that that company owns the IP everything that they use, so they actually made no profit, all to avoid paying taxes. And then because "made no money" they get cash from the governments.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

You forgot land value tax. Otherwise it's looking good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Abolish capitol punishments
Codify body autonomy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Why do you post an image of text?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Term limits on SCOTUS should be 18 years, with one Justice retiring every other year.

Unless the court expands, then the term limits could be shorter

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_voting

Star voting to avoid some of the potential negative outcomes of RCV

Do not merge the house and Senate. They perform different, but equally important functions, once you remove the house cap and force them to start legislating again.

Remove the illegal revision done by a single person to statute 1983 of the federal code, in 1874. This removes Qualified Immunity, and resets the law back to, "naw fam, no one, not even a Sitting President, Congressman, or SCOTUS Justice is above the law, and no one has any sort of immunity." If you need immunity to do the job, the job shouldn't be done.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html

It also follows that congresspeople can now be prosecuted for insider trading, and SCOTUS justices can be prosecuted for accepting bribes.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would add patent law reform, and remove the ability to hold private and public office (ie you can't be a board member of Monsanto and be on the EPA), oh and no campaign donations allowed; everybody gets an equal stipend to campaign, we have the internet you don't need to go shaking babies and kissing hands.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wealth tax. You forgot that one. Otherwise every billionaire will suddenly make $49,999 in salary.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Whats a luxury item for purposes of VAT? You’ll be hung up forever on that.

For example cars:

  • some consider all cars a luxury we need to step away from
  • some see the reality that cars are required for most of us
  • where do you draw the line between a “necessary” car and a “luxury” car?
  • for the love of god, no special treatment for light trucks
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Probably get rid of the supreme Court altogether and have cases that it currently hears be heard by a random selection of federal judges.

Probably also need to get some people smarter and more specialized than me to figure out how to capture the wealth of the wealthy. Like the whole "take out a loan against your assets, use that as money, pay no taxes" thing needs to go.

While we're having fantasies, can we expand the 14th amendment "no insurrection " bit to be more clear?

And if we're feeling spiteful, add a "no one who has held office as a member of the Republican party shall be eligible for any role in government, nor any role that engages with the government such as contractor, advisor, lobbyist." Just gut the whole party.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Fully funded public news media with a legal firewall between government interests and that media. Controlled by journalists and representative members of the public. We desperately need to get working interests back into news media, nearly every flavor of our media is currently owned by corporate interests.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Don't forget to abolish slavery.. wait forgot they call it prison now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

One more.

Now that corporations aren't people, only people can own residential land.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Wouldn't the ban on tax preparation companies hurt mostly the middle class? The rich can just get full time accountants to handle all their finances, and these accountants will also optimize their taxes as part of the general service they provide.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Most countries don't require the nonsense you go through at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

The nonsense is there specifically to benefit the tax prep companies. Getting rid of one without the other isn't... Anything anyone is advocating for. You get rid of both, simultaneously, because you have to, and because it's right. How you make it work? Tax the rich, mostly

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ban political donations, all political parties get the same, small campaign budget and allotment of advertising space/airtime funded by the government instead

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No tax reform? It’s a great start to make taxes easier for most individuals but we shouldn’t be allowing wealthier people to pay less percentage of taxes. There’s a bewildering array of complexity that doesn’t matter to most individuals but only serves to lower the tax rate if people who can afford to take advantage of it

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Lots of good stuff here, and I agree with others to keep the senate. Abolish the filibuster!

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