General Discussion

Term limits on Supreme Court and Senators/Reps.

Roleplaying as Decronym bot for a moment:

Removing the house rep cap (more particularly adopting a plan similar to The Wyoming Rule) would be a fantastic idea and allow the house to return back to what it should be, populace representation. As the electoral college is based on combined reps and senators, this also does a fair bit towards resolving the underlying issue there.

Corporate personhood is what allows you to sue a corporation and enter contracts with it. The courts have allowed that to go further then it should vis a vis allowing contributions to political campaigns etc. Removing it would not be the best idea with that in mind.

if one allowed the IRS to file taxes for citizens you wouldn't need to ban tax prep companies since the amount of people buying their products would fall off a cliff.

All public funding, subsidy, stimulus, and infrastructural spending should purchase public equity that can only be bought back via taxes.

We don’t have to call it socialism. It can be capitalism proper. But it’s the people’s labor and capital being lent interest-free when they should expect a return. Fair is fair.

Some other reasons it works:

1. Entitlements like UBI become ordinary financial vehicles, annuities for the growing public trust.
2. It would underscore the stake citizens have in their governance, the economy, and would certainly reframe public discourse.
3. Nationalized healthcare is just vertical integration, eliminating corporate inefficiencies and overhead.
4. National debt becomes leverage rather than a burden to future generations.
5. Conservative pundit rhetoric sounds hopelessly plebeian against an owner proletariat (e.g. “government handouts” are a childish way to say public dividends).
6. Many large private interests that have historically gobbled up public funds would quickly see the public become majority shareholders, effectively nationalizing many industries that should have been long ago.

Instead of all that, just one thing. Start there and everything else will unfold from it: remove private corporate money from politics. All contributions to a politician or political party to be public and capped, per citizen.

All excellent ideas.

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

I'd vote for you

Missing:

Disallow corporate campaign donations

Politicians prohibited from owning stocks

The 50k and under untaxed I disagree with. It sets up for a possible scenario where those who are taxed get priority in policy. If you are able to be a productive member of society, you should pay taxes to support that society, and the infrastructure it provides.

Most of the others in the list I agree with or don't know enough about the case to comment

I mean, I could add to it...

• Pay reparations to victims of Jim Crow/Segregation and descendants of those bound by the practice of Chattle Slavery.
• Nationalize the telecom corporations. Use the profits to fund a Bell Laboratories type research institute as well as public college departments in the relevant fields.
• Nationalize the freight railroads. Use the profits to fund a high quality bus system in rural areas, an "Interstate-style" 110-125 mph regional/commuter passenger rail system nationwide, and develop 155-200+ mph HSR corridors between appropriate city pairs.
• Initiate planning for metro/light rail systems in every city with a population of 250k or higher.
• End the Embargo on Cuba and fully normalize relations. Shutter and remove the facilities at Guantanamo Bay; return the land to the Cuban government and pay reparation for it's theft.
• End NATO while helping the EU organize it's own native unified defense force. Form a new treaty with the EU for common defense.
• Forgive all debt the US holds from co-called "third world" nations.
• Remove all "NeoLiberal" stipulations and restrictions the IMF has placed on so-called "third world" nations.
• Pass a federal law ending so-called "Right to Work" at the state level and triple the NLRB's budget.
• End the funding of public schools through local property tax and replace it with a Federal tax on corporations.
• Bust up Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet into their viable constituent parts.
• Formally recognize the nation of Palestine at the UN.
• Join the International Criminal Court.

As a US senator, that list looks like COMMUNISM to me.

"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.

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.

Universal vote by mail? No. I can imagine several situations where votes "go missing" or "suddenly appear" and any investigation would have a really hard time finding evidence.

Your list implies the US does VAT. It's one of the only places that doesn't.

Another one: push cities to have green (as in trees) everywhere. Not only is it prettier, people will be more happy with loads of green everywhere, but it also lowers temperatures in cities. Better mental healthy better physical health.

And another one: push cities (by carrot and sticks, financial incentives and penalties) to change their layouts and designs to be humans first, 15 minute cities, whatever you want to call them. Pedestrian areas and cycling infrastructure over cars, mixed use building areas, let's get rid of the suburb rot. It makes it that people don't need a car and if you don't need a car, why have an expensive piece of crap that costs a fortune to use and maintain? Cars will still be allowed, because of course. It's just that priorities have to change. People first, cyclists first. Cities will become more quiet, people will walk and cycle more, they'll be outside more, healthier, happier, safer, richer, safer.