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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I would add:

Equal Rights Amendment

Reverse Shelby County v Holder

Reverse District of Columbia v Heller

Add ethics code for Supreme Court with enforcement authority

Discharge federal student loan debt and regulate higher education costs

Demilitarize police

Ban property tax based school funding

Abolish the death penalty

Federally mandated paid vacation, paid sick leave, overtime over 40 hours, and a ban of right-to-work laws.

Allow the Army Corps of Engineers to repair and maintain infrastructure.

[–] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Start with one thing, mate. Most impact and easiest to implement.

Why delude yourself with this bullshit fantasy list? Focus on reality.

[–] 3volver@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I focused on reality and all it did was make me start thinking we're fucked, so I made a list of solutions.

[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, in order to have the slightest chance of doing most of these things, America would already have to be a lot better.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Writing "Abolish PACs and lobbying" implies reverting Citizens United v FEC so you probably don't need a separate list item for it

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[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

You could pay for a whole bunch of that with a Land Value Tax.

[–] elrik@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

You have about 25 items too many on this list.

[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Mandatory voting I dunno.

The rest are definitely good, I'm thinking just having a whole ass revolution might be easier than getting all this done, and as a bonus would come with additional benefits.

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UBI requires such a large reorganization of the economy that you may as well add democratization of the workplace, and it would get done earlier. I think both would be great personally.

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