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This is good.
Great would be stuff like expanded welfare and punishing corporate america for subverting pensions with 401ks.
Like in order to take advantage of any tax incentives or deductions, corporations must have a (legally protected) pension system in place for all employees retroactively.
That would raise American workers to European standards.
I say just tax all churches, not just the big ones.
Shouldn't that be "Project 2029"? That's when a new president would take office.
Too bad we'll never have a benevolent tyrant who rams these things through. It's always evil that does things that way.
As other people have said, the whole congressional pay thing is complex, but everything else I'm down for! Hell, I'll take any of these, even congressional pay. Any progress at this point.
Billionaires will orchestrate a war (they have the power) before their agenda is threatened
It's nice and I'm all for most of those with some exceptions, but I don't think I will ever see any of that happen in my short lifetime. Shit's only going to get worse from here on out. America will not survive this. Hell, Yale/Harvard professors of Fascism have left the freaking country cuz they know what's coming....
Are you trying to make every worker a part time worker? CEO pay just need to be a multiple of the lowest paid employee. Tying it to full time work just means they'll not bring anyone to full time until there's a seriously desperate need, to make sure they're able to get obscene pay contracts.
I'm here for it, except I don't think ranked choice should be required. Essentially anything is better than First Past The Post, but, imo, Approval voting is a better system. Ranked Choice can still favor polarizing and antagonistic politics where Approval favors compromise and coalition. Again, though, anything but FPTP. Maybe that should be the goal.
Isn't approval voting just a form of alternative / ranked choice?
Approval voting is susceptible to strategies including burial, which leads to a "chicken dilemma".
Example
Consider a distribution of voter preferences
When every voter approves their top 2 choices, we have
without a winner. In the next round, when every voter approves their 1st choice, we have
and c (the least wanted candidate) wins.
Among ranked ballot systems, ranked-choice voting isn't that great, either.
Example
- A > B > C: 2
- C > B > A: 2
- B > C > A: 1
Who wins according to instant run-off? C. Who wins against every opponent 1-on-1? B.
It fails the Condorcet criterion (elect the candidate who would beat all others 1-on-1 when it exists).
There are better methods such as ranked pairs: this nice table compares voting methods by a wide range of properties including Condorcet criterion.
Fuck yes
I would love to see unrealized gains used as collateral taxed.
I've always thought it was the fairest way to stop them from using/enjoying/benefiting from their wealth without paying taxes, without having to just outright tax unrealized gains which is pretty unfair to me.
You could optionally start it at a certain wealth level so as to not burden the working class with the extra complicated taxes it would cause, and the wealthy at that point would be able to afford the extra work on the taxes.
I sadly don't think it will ever happen in our life times =(
It's cute you think there will be another election. I mean, there will be elections ... but they won't mean anything. The idiotic half of the US is realizing too late that the "conservative" party is the party of evil.
You think you're getting another election?