Radical Ideas That Would Better The Country

[Cynic]

- Ban defense and the auto industry from lobbying.
- Legalize prostitution.
- Ban education based on taxation
- End immunity for all police and create a third party council to investigate misgivings.
- Mandatory 30 day paid vacation for full time staff.
- End incarceration for child support
- Prosecute partenity fraud
- $100 mil CAP on Presidential campaigns.
- End prison based slavery

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

libertarians

I'll change the SALT situation for you if you turn that frown upside down

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

libertarians

I'll change the SALT situation for you if you turn that frown upside down

 

[Hood Critic]

UBI

 

[Professor Emeritus]

- Ban education based on taxation

Yeah. "The Shame of the Nation" is a great book on apartheid education.

- End immunity for all police and create a third party council to investigate misgivings.

Sadly our recent experience shows this is still a long time away. Police hold too much power, including the power to stop doing their job whenever they're pissy and thus drive public discourse.

 

[Jesus H. Christ]

Ban corporations from political campaign contributions.

Politicians should not be able to participate in the stock market.

If you serve as a politician and go to the private sector. Don't come back. Auto ban.

Medical for all.

Legalize marijuana & prostitution.

Deregulate immigration laws.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Politicians should not be able to participate in the stock market.

I agree with this, but with a slight change. Politicians can invest in stocks, but cannot realize gains until say 10 years after they leave office. Discourages using their office for short term gains, and incentivizes long term thinking. This, combined with mandatory disclosure, allows citizens to take advantage of gains as well.

 

[mastermind]

in the US, political campaigns can only be funded with tax dollars and a banning third party advertising.

end monopolies and monopolistic practices

Remove corporate ownership of media

raise corporate and tax on the wealthy to 50%

Change education from local control to federal control

Education should focus on thinking and also practical life skills.

 

[Gritsngravy]

Reparations for black people
Free schooling run by the government, ban all private institutions we all gettin the same education
Make the Caribbean islands us states, also Canada and some of Mexico
Mandatory military service for every citizen after highschool
Research and education will be funding priorities

 

[Sukairain]

100% inheritance tax on all estates valued over $1mn, i.e. if your estate is worth more than a million dollars you get taxed at 100% on everything above one million, and you can only give away one million to your beneficiaries.

All money raised from this tax is to be used for funding government schools and universities exclusively. It is not to be used for defence, healthcare, pensions, law enforcement, or any of the other duties of government.

Let it be so that even the worst government school and worst government university of the future has better resources and better educational quality than the very best private school and private university of today. That East Los Angeles government high school that Jaime Escalante taught at must have better resources and educational quality than fukking Harvard.

Let it be so that the assets and the wealth of a dead person go towards the upliftment of all the children in the whole nation, and not just their children by blood.

You can still look after your kids by giving them a life of luxury while they grow up, and even after you die you can take care of them with up to a million dollars. How much more do they need to be provided for? Everything else you've got is your debt to the children of the whole nation.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Transaction tax on all stock buys and sells.

Warren's idea that IRS sends you tax bill since they have all your tax info already

Medicare for All

Tax rate hits 30% after 2 million dollars and 40% after 10 million dollars

Marriage is two consensual adults in an union.

Age limit of public servants

Income tax cap increase on social security

Removal of SGA cap for disability

Removal of work searches for unemployment

Free public universities

Foreign nationals restricted from purchasing american real estate

College starts at 20.

Raise driving age to 18

Decriminalize all drugs/legalize marijuana

Cashless bail for mismeandors and citations. Bail for felony level charges

 

[Professor Emeritus]

100% inheritance tax on all estates valued over $1mn, i.e. if your estate is worth more than a million dollars you get taxed at 100% on everything above one million, and you can only give away one million to your beneficiaries.

All money raised from this tax is to be used for funding government schools and universities exclusively. It is not to be used for defence, healthcare, pensions, law enforcement, or any of the other duties of government.

Let it be so that even the worst government school and worst government university of the future has better resources and better educational quality than the very best private school and private university of today. That East Los Angeles government high school that Jaime Escalante taught at must have better resources and educational quality than fukking Harvard.

Let it be so that the assets and the wealth of a dead person go towards the upliftment of all the children in the whole nation, and not just their children by blood.

You can still look after your kids by giving them a life of luxury while they grow up, and even after you die you can take care of them with up to a million dollars. How much more do they need to be provided for? Everything else you've got is your debt to the children of the whole nation.

Yeah buddy you propose that from any position of influence and you're getting a hit on your ass.

Some kid with a few billion coming his way ain't gonna hesitate to put up $10 million to make sure the money gets there.

 

[Sukairain]

Yeah buddy you propose that from any position of influence and you're getting a hit on your ass.

Some kid with a few billion coming his way ain't gonna hesitate to put up $10 million to make sure the money gets there.

Hey, this is a fantasy world where I am immune from assassination. The thread title specified (to me at least) that we can share our most radical ideas here in order for them to be judged on their objective merits in an ideal world, and not on their feasibility in the real world. You can't assassinate me for a theoretical forum post. If you dislike the idea for other reasons, please make them known so we can have a fruitful discussion about it.

I feel that most people would be supportive of this idea because hardly anybody stands to inherit more than a million dollars. We could make it a flexible amount that changes every year based on inflation. We could add an exception clause that exempts the main family residence of the deceased from the calculation of their estate, too. So the threshold would be $1mn in cash and assets, and the main family domicile are tax-free.

That would all but guarantee that the only people negatively affected by this law would be the blue-blooded Old Money types, and the big swinging dikks of Wall Street, as they call themselves. The self-styled Masters of the Universe. You know who I mean, all those hedge fund managers, merchant bankers, and big shot corporate executives.

And to be honest the whole idea behind trickle down theory is that those Old Money and Master of the Universe types spend a lot of their wealth, spend it almost as quickly as they make it. But they obviously don't, in reality they hoard it. Bringing in such a law would force them to spend their money before they die so as to reduce theie tax burden, which in turn would see the wealth actually trickle down and see the economy get a huge shot in the arm. It's win-win for everyone except those who want to hoard their money.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Hey, this is a fantasy world where I am immune from assassination. The thread title specified (to me at least) that we can share our most radical ideas here in order for them to be judged on their objective merits in an ideal world, and not on their feasibility in the real world. You can't assassinate me for a theoretical forum post. If you dislike the idea for other reasons, please make them known so we can have a fruitful discussion about it.

I feel that most people would be supportive of this idea because hardly anybody stands to inherit more than a million dollars. We could make it a flexible amount that changes every year based on inflation. We could add an exception clause that exempts the main family residence of the deceased from the calculation of their estate too. That would all but guarantee that the only people negatively affected by this law would be the blue-blooded Old Money types, and the big swinging dikks of Wall Street, as they call themselves. The self-styled Masters of the Universe. You know who I mean, all those hedge fund managers, merchant bankers, and big shot corporate executives.

I was just pointing out how dramatic the response would be.


I think it's a fair idea but unworkable cause you'd have the difficulty of liquidating the assets (do you kick them out of their $6 million home if they're living in their parents' place) and would set up some sort of money-hiding arms race where rich people would just figure out ways to transfer their assets to their children right before they died.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Hey, this is a fantasy world where I am immune from assassination. The thread title specified (to me at least) that we can share our most radical ideas here in order for them to be judged on their objective merits in an ideal world, and not on their feasibility in the real world. You can't assassinate me for a theoretical forum post. If you dislike the idea for other reasons, please make them known so we can have a fruitful discussion about it.

I feel that most people would be supportive of this idea because hardly anybody stands to inherit more than a million dollars. We could make it a flexible amount that changes every year based on inflation. We could add an exception clause that exempts the main family residence of the deceased from the calculation of their estate, too. So the threshold would be $1mn in cash and assets, and the main family domicile are tax-free.

That would all but guarantee that the only people negatively affected by this law would be the blue-blooded Old Money types, and the big swinging dikks of Wall Street, as they call themselves. The self-styled Masters of the Universe. You know who I mean, all those hedge fund managers, merchant bankers, and big shot corporate executives.

And to be honest the whole idea behind trickle down theory is that those Old Money and Master of the Universe types spend a lot of their wealth, spend it almost as quickly as they make it. But they obviously don't, in reality they hoard it. Bringing in such a law would force them to spend their money before they die so as to reduce theie tax burden, which in turn would see the wealth actually trickle down and see the economy get a huge shot in the arm. It's win-win for everyone except those who want to hoard their money.

That was indeed the intent of the thread yes