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

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.

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How about age limits for government officials as well? Or at least the senate. The grandma at the tax form place in city hall is ok even if she a bit slow.

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[–] 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

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lobbying and pacs weren't created by citizens united.

Honestly, reversing citizens united is the only part that's needed. Pacs and lobbying aren't intrinsically bad, they just need regulation and oversight that they don't have because of citizens united.

A group of people showing able to pool their resources to advocate for legislation, and people should be able to ask their representatives to take action on their behalf.
Pacs and lobbying are now far more than those two things, so we need regulation, but we still need them.

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

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

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

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

When you propose things, you have to keep some line items you can remove easily during negotiations to show “good faith” 😬

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Mostly. I'm fine with some of these being left up to the states, like prostitution and marijuana, although I do think marijuana's federal status should change (from schedule 1, to a much lower schedule). Also, I think the highest tax bracket should be 99%, or even 100%. But that highest bracket should be a very high number, like 0.001% of GDP.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Excellent project OP, this is cool

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Legalizing Prostitution just creates more Human Trafficking, as a result of allowing human traffickers to operate in the open under the guise of legality. We have decades of evidence that lead to this conclusion. We don't need to keep trying it.

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[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (8 children)

not sure about the mandatory voting and outlawing tipping. Just compliance wise. Not voting itself can be a intended thing and I can't think of any country where you have a gun to your head to vote taht is a place I would want to live. As for tipping you will just turn it into bribery. No place should be allowed to pay with the expectation tips is part of compensation. Tips are a gift basically.

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[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The America patch notes of our dreams

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