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[-] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

5% tax on highest bracket not nearly enough. Normal citizens pay like 30%, they should reduce the normal bracket to somewhere around 10-15 percent, raise top bracket to about 49%, and tax businesses at the same rate.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You forgot to add abolishing slavery.

Considering that lemmy.world is pretty much just a ball of pearl-clutching white liberalism these days it's not very surprising.

[-] peak_dunning_krueger@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Sure, but be careful with "universal basic income" ,"taxes" and actual national expenses.

What you have there is a wish list. It's a good wishlist, but an actual plan requires planning. Including how the math works out. Which can be done, but you still need to do it.

[-] smb@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

eh.. is there a reason why "abolish slavery" happens to NOT be on that list? i'ld put it right on top!

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Not necessary, already solved with the 13th amendment. This is a list of solutions which have not yet been implemented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

[-] smb@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

which part of "except as a punishment" was actually unclear in those laws that currently still "protect" slavery since how many centuries now? did you already ask your gov how many are enslaved due to this slavery protection law today? do you know how many are today tortured because slaves still do not have any laws protecting them? tell me which laws you think would protect slaves today from torture? could they call a lawyer? by which law if they dont have rights? this "don't have rights" was a huge part of slavery, right? so tell me, as this law clearly states the possibility of slaves, which laws would protect them? how could you tell if there are no other mentionings in any other law? i guess you just can't, because this law protects slavery but no law protects the victims of it.

so if you did not ask your government yet about the total numbers (which could be 0 of course as you claim), on what "knowledge" are your believes based on then? pls let me know!

i remember news about children put into cages at the southern border, i remember that originally a five digit number of families was in the news, later on claims, that those kids were sexually abused instead of beeing taken care for, they tried to find them but only got a low 4 digit number of them back. what would you say happened to those at "unknown locations"? i do see a "possible" direct link to the slavery-protection by law you seem to believe would actually "prohibit" it.

Just having this exception in the laws degrades the credibility of the whole country. Why not get rid of this shit then?

And thus if you were right that slavery does not happen any more (wow cool, a real step towards civilisation) then it should also not be of any problem of any kind to remove that exception from the laws right today before sunset, right? who would even hesitate?? if there are none who currently "profit" from that law, or who are already planning to profit from it by creating false evidences of "crimes" sufficient to apply this laws to innocent ones in front of some of those "secret courts", if none of such exists, why not just remove this exemption then and if only to really have more civilized law afterwards ???

IMHO "abolish slavery" needs to be on that list, so this list could have any meaning at all.

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[-] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Stop I can only get so erect

[-] noisefree@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can you explain what you mean by this?

Collateral for loan is realized gain

Functionally how would that work? Maybe I'm being obtuse here, but it sounds like a Catch-22.

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think the actions on this list would improve economic conditions for the middle class.

I’ll just say if prostitution is legalized, then there needs to be something that ensures that someone isn’t coerced into it somehow, or sex trafficked into it.

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[-] golli@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I am actually not sure about the coroprate home ownership point. Here in Germany renting is much more common and accepted compared to the US, and i think there are lots of situations where this makes sense. However both in the US and here in Germany the systems need changes. And i think they should mostly target land ownership rather than the houses themself. What drives up the prices in desired areas are mostly increases in land value, not that building houses got that much more expensive (although that is also a factor).

And most of that value gain are from external factors rather than the owners own merit. If someone builds an architectually great and energy efficient house or develops land, then it is fine if he gains value from it. But if simply owning the property improves the value over time, because society around it builds nice schools, parks and so on. Then the owner hasn't done anything and that profit should be taxed completely away. If that makes sense.

That said there probably should also be a mechanism to support the first home people own to counteract scale efficiencies that corporations might be able to leverage.


Not sure if outright banning stocks for politicians is the way to go, but there should be more points regarding transparancy and conflicts of interest. Also not just during their time in office, but after that aswell.

I'd have no issue with politicians holding a borad market index fund.

[-] daltotron@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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Are you trying to fix systemic problems of government structure or pass laws? They are different things.

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tmishka@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Limit the age for candidates, to the pension maximum

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

IRS filing taxes for us could lead to unintended consequences, like them just saying "yep, everything's in order here. you're all paid up. What's that? Tax return? No, you paid the exact amount you owed in taxes, so you get no return." and probably you'd have to do a FOIA request to get a copy of the return, then you could probably fight it, but it'd cost more to fight it than you'd get back in the return in the first place.

[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

How about a wall around the crazy states, everyone can go and come for some years, after that, close it. Let them drown in guns and bubbles, I say. - a joke, apparently. I like the list, maybe fight all the cults where old guys marry several underaged girls, too. Oh yeah, they still exist.

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe I will add "Revoke Scientology tax-exempt status" in v4.

[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Revoke all religions tax exemption

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[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

The America patch notes of our dreams

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[-] farsinuce@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you for this approximate description of most Nordic countries.

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