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Wow man you must be reading my mind. Was actually working on a website to do something like this with civil discussion. There are a ton of things missing to this list but it's a good base line.
Edit: website will include the milestones required to complete each change including why important and potential impact, negative and positive, and difficulty of task.
eh.. is there a reason why "abolish slavery" happens to NOT be on that list? i'ld put it right on top!
I think the actions on this list would improve economic conditions for the middle class.
Iβll just say if prostitution is legalized, then there needs to be something that ensures that someone isnβt coerced into it somehow, or sex trafficked into it.
Sure, but be careful with "universal basic income" ,"taxes" and actual national expenses.
What you have there is a wish list. It's a good wishlist, but an actual plan requires planning. Including how the math works out. Which can be done, but you still need to do it.
Can you explain what you mean by this?
Collateral for loan is realized gain
Functionally how would that work? Maybe I'm being obtuse here, but it sounds like a Catch-22.
Are you trying to fix systemic problems of government structure or pass laws? They are different things.
You have about 25 items too many on this list.
You could pay for a whole bunch of that with a Land Value Tax.
Three the most important things are missing:
Most of the changes won't matter if people are uneducated or easily misled.
I think those are tough examples we don't have enough data as the public to make decisions for. Home education can be more comprehensive than a local rural school (think Floridian malfeasance) or maybe handles a niche community like disabilities/hardships etc. I believe elementary education is already mandatory (or at least alternatives need approved atm), and multiple-choice tests are not inherently bad, just the way in which we administer them for every "progression metric" is obsessive and becomes unhelpful.
I would like to see a revamp in the administrative and legislation part of the education system. We currently elect board members and positions of power in education by popularity regardless of their credentials. Any education position that oversees policy needs to have a selection committee like that of the justice system with open public hearings and disputes able to be heard. We keep getting these extremists in positions that completely set back any progress we have tried to scientifically make in the education field.
A rather extreme position - allow students to vote for elected education officials. Get students used to researching and campaigning for their candidates. Let them get into the policy nuance and see how they are personally effected. Let them learn the lesson of electing someone who doesn't fulfill campaign promises and have them hold their candidate responsible for those missteps. Teach them the dangers of extreme political ideologies and politicizing topics that need no-nonsense action. I would hope learning these things in an academic setting might help our future elections with greater participation.
I am actually not sure about the coroprate home ownership point. Here in Germany renting is much more common and accepted compared to the US, and i think there are lots of situations where this makes sense. However both in the US and here in Germany the systems need changes. And i think they should mostly target land ownership rather than the houses themself. What drives up the prices in desired areas are mostly increases in land value, not that building houses got that much more expensive (although that is also a factor).
And most of that value gain are from external factors rather than the owners own merit. If someone builds an architectually great and energy efficient house or develops land, then it is fine if he gains value from it. But if simply owning the property improves the value over time, because society around it builds nice schools, parks and so on. Then the owner hasn't done anything and that profit should be taxed completely away. If that makes sense.
That said there probably should also be a mechanism to support the first home people own to counteract scale efficiencies that corporations might be able to leverage.
Not sure if outright banning stocks for politicians is the way to go, but there should be more points regarding transparancy and conflicts of interest. Also not just during their time in office, but after that aswell.
I'd have no issue with politicians holding a borad market index fund.
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.
Legalize all drugs. Keep prices low(street value) with quality monitoring paid for by tax of product. Any further tax revenue from product to be used for addiction treatment.
Writing "Abolish PACs and lobbying" implies reverting Citizens United v FEC so you probably don't need a separate list item for it
Needs more limitations on investment in the stock market, more investment into co-ops and employee owned businesses, and more investment into rail infrastructure and other good civic infrastructure at the federal level. Also, change from general ranked choice voting, to the schulze method.
Also I wanna see a real move towards taco tuesday. We think it's a meme or whatever, but like an experimental free food day, or free single meal, for at least one day a week, seems totally achievable, and like it would do some good. Maybe try to integrate some community gardening into it or something, set up some federal system for that, that would be fucking sick dude hoo lee.
Edit: If you're getting rid of states, or like, trying to rethink them, I think I remember seeing some maps redrawn with states if they all had totally equal population, which you could do, and I've also seen some maps that allocate states based more on natural resources, than just having like, a lot of the western states be shitty squares and stuff. I think I saw one based on water tables, but I can't seem to find it or remember the name of it. You'd probably wanna go in for stuff like that, if you wanted to still retain the idea of states, and give them a reason to exist but also be fair and not lame.