General Discussion

idk about merge the senate into the house. I like the idea that there is one chamber where each state has the same number of votes and one that goes by population. but hard agree on removing the house rep cap, as-is every branch of the fed is weighted toward smaller, more rural states (senate, house with rep cap, potus via electoral college, scotus because senate and potus pick scotus)

All excellent ideas.

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

There should be something in there about universal free education

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

Abolish capitol punishments
Codify body autonomy

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.

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

Why do you post an image of text?

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

One more.

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

I'd vote for you

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Out of these, unfortunately the only one that even has a chance of being realized is "IRS does taxes for everyone", and even that is more like "IRS provides official avenue to not have to pay a tax prep service"

The rest of these won't happen without a revolution, because the people with the power to make these things happen all directly benefit from them.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see even one or two things on this list become reality. Any two would make a ton of difference for a lot of people. But capitalism doesn't like it when you benefit the average Joe, and capitalism always wins here.