Interesting thread.
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Simplify the bills that get put forward. Each bill has to put forward a single idea with no hidden items making it impossible to kill or pass. This would give us the ability to either kill or pass an entire bill based solely on the merit of the idea.
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Tax code written to favor small business not large corporations.
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Corporations no longer to contribute to a political campaign or party. Individuals allowed to contribute an unlimited amount.
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Glass - Steagall act put back into play.
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Increase the retirement age and age at which SS starts.
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Every government contract put under an audit. Companies have a way of screwing the government because they know nobody really looks at the contract. In fact it would be worth making a specific department to do that and this department would be a profit center at first through the use of fines for any company knowingly overcharging the government or not hitting deadlines. In 5 years we would re-evaluate this department and reduce the size if necessary.
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Abortion legal on federal level. States allowed to enact more restrictive laws. No fed funds spent on this.
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Drugs legal on federal level. States allowed to enact more restrictive laws. No fed funds spent on this.
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Amnesty for people in jail for drug only offenses.
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Death penalty outlawed but hard labor camps put in their place. Prisons put as last resort for crimes and parole not possible. More minor crimes punished at local level and labor camps used for these sentences.
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States allowed to secede if they don’t like any of the above but lose all Fed funding, all military protection, have to establish favored nation trading status, and all citizens in that state immediately lose U.S. citizenship.
james