Thursday, February 25, 2010

Ethics Recommendations

Require court orders before prescribing drugs for only psychoactive purposes to minors for more than three days, except cases of seriously injured children given pain killers or life saving psychoactive drugs.

Prohibit government funding for political advocacy entities.

Prohibit US entities from arresting chief executives of nuclear weapons possessing countries outside of US borders.

Prohibit former elected officials from receiving political appointments to political appointee positions they created.

Prohibit state and federal political appointees from receiving income while serving their appointments, except government employee incomes and interest from bank and credit union accounts. 

Prohibit government employees and their first degree relatives from having bank accounts outside the United States.

Reduce the number of commissioners on the Federal Elections Commission to one, requiring commissioner election by nationwide vote every four years. Prohibit former paid lobbyists and paid members of political parties from serving on the Federal Elections Commission.

Pass the Repealing Existing Substandard Provisions Encouraging Conciliation with Tribes (RESPECT) Act, Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium, and Antitrust Review Act of 2019.

Pass HR 4018 of 2019, permitting non-violent elderly prisoners with good conduct credits to serve the remainders of their sentences at home. 

Pass the Innocent Party Protection Act, preventing lawyers from adding irrelevant local small businesses to lawsuits, thus changing lawsuit venues to more lawsuit friendly locations.

Prohibit current and former elected officials from receiving honorary degrees.

Ban former elected officials and political appointees from lobbying for life.

Ban former regulators, elected officials, political appointees, and State Department employees from corporate boards and nonprofit boards for life.

Prohibit former government regulators from management positions in industries they previously regulated.

Prohibit political appointees from political fundraising.

Require professional sports leagues to have no more than nine teams, requiring team locations within 800 miles of each other.

Require teenage murder defendants to be tried as adults. Require teenage treason, terrorism, espionage, and white collar crime defendants to also be tried as adults. 

Require employers to provide five minute restroom breaks at least once every three hours, more often for individuals with medically documented irritable bowel syndrome.

Require government election signatures to match government issued photo ID signatures.

Require each US corporation to incorporate in the state or territory having a plurality or majority of their workers. 

Require all corporations operating within the United States to disclose the full legal names of their beneficial owners and at least one state or federal accurate identification number of those owners, updating changes of ownership within 90 days, listing other legal entities that have legal control over the corporations, requiring fees to cover the costs of handling this information. Create a publicly available database of such information.

Prohibit any anonymously owned entity from engaging in financial transactions to, from, and within the United States.

Require producers of expiring patent drugs to provide samples of such drugs to generics manufacturers.

Prohibit from public office: individuals having non-bank account investments in foreign or multinational entities or entities selling goods or services to foreign entities.

Ban any US entity from serving as an honorary counsel or any other diplomatic position of any foreign entity.

Require owners of any corporation filing for bankruptcy to pay any unpaid non-executive wages out of their pockets in proportion to their ownership, including any sums for wage theft.

Prohibit foreign and multinational entities from paid advertising of financial instruments within the United States.

Prohibit criminal sentences or plea deals permitting defendants to avoid punishments by making donations to nonprofits or business entities.

Hire government lawyers and regulators for life, except government lawyers and regulators fired for ethical, criminal, and or performance misbehaviors. Prohibit current and former government lawyers and regulators from receiving gifts and or remuneration from non-government entities, except their less than $19 per hour pay from their US restaurant employers. Permit government lawyers and regulators to move among government jobs.

Prohibit individuals from government entities and contractors from holding positions in investigations of those same entities and contractors, except as consultants, witnesses, and whistleblowers.

Require all government entities to cooperate with relevant government investigative entities' investigations.

Make labor laws for teenagers match those for working age adults.

Prohibit corporate entities not strictly audited by strictly regulated auditors from being listed in stock listings.

Ban state, local, and Federal elected officials, having annual government salaries greater than the annual national median household income from personally soliciting campaign contributions, requiring campaign solicitations to be done by other individuals.

Ban United States government entities from enforcing foreign intellectual property claims based on foreign governments having longer intellectual property time durations than the United States.

Require all hired government job categories to have civil service exams and scores that will be accepted as equivalent to post-primary formal education credentials.

Charge current and former United States citizens and corporations a 2.5 percent annual, marginal assets tax on their net foreign assets exceeding $200,000 in value. 

Charge current and former United States citizens and corporations a 2.5 percent annual, marginal tax on their foreign rentals exceeding $29,000 in value.

Create a 100 percent negative externalities tax on spectator sports tickets costing more than the median hourly wage.

Prohibit elected officials and political appointees from appearing in government funded advertising.

Require the closing of baccalaureate granting schools having at least 25 percent of their classes that will not transfer to at least 70 percent of public colleges and universities.

Require public libraries to hire based on apprenticeships, apprenticeship performance, civil service exams, prior job performance, and relevant experience, not post-secondary degrees.

Requires seminars for judges to be paid for by government entities and or by  judges themselves.

Prohibit any over-the-counter product from being labeled detox or cleansing.

Prohibit get rich paid advertising. Charge violators with fraud, having a mandatory minimum sentence of 180 days prison and minimum fines greater than the amount paid for the advertising.

Ban the sale and or importation of harmful headlight HID and or LED conversion kits.

Ban the sale and purchase of so-called cryptocurrencies. Ban cryptocurrency entities, their employees, and their former employees from being employed or contracted by government entities. Ban US advertising for any cryptocurrencies anywhere. Ban political donations by sellers and possessors of cryptocurrencies. Implement a 79 percent alternative minimum federal income tax on violators of cryptocurrency bans.

Prohibit individuals convicted of financial crimes from income earning positions in non-profit industries.

Prohibit elected officials and political appointees from requesting payments to non-governmental entities owned and or managed by themselves, their first degree relatives or second degree relatives.

Create a felony conviction three-year mandatory minimum sentence for individuals having net worths greater than 10.5 million dollars at any moment in their lives or annual incomes greater than 1.6 million dollars.

Increase punishments for politically motivated road blockages, including felony unlawful detainment.

Prohibit former corporate executives from being employed by labor unions. Prohibit receivers of corporate or billionaire political donations from being employed by labor unions.

Require for-profit entities acquiring or merging with other entities to honor the pension obligations of each entity, clawing personal assets from executives when they break pension duties.

Prohibit elected officials from politically appointing their first, second, and third degree relatives.

Prohibit employers from requiring employees or potential employees to pay for any fingerprints, drug testing, background checks, medical treatments, and medical examinations requested by the employer.

Ban government loans, grants, bailouts, and or tax entitlements to corporations, except for well-reasoned trade deficit and or national security improving purposes to corporations having at least 94 percent of their employees and their contractors' employees living and working in the United States.

Prohibit employment and or education related lawsuits against entities for practicing relevant, mostly accurate standards.

Prohibit private entities from funding travel and or training for government regulators.

Prohibit labor union leaders from having gross annual remuneration more than twice the lowest paid full-time, full year member in their union.

Require employers to pay $0.58 per mile mileage to in person job interview candidates traveling more than 15 miles for an interview, measured from the address listed on a resume or application to the place of interview.

Eliminate time limits on taking back executive pay for misconduct.

Replace the "as low as reasonably achievable" from laws and other government norms with benefit-harm reasoning.

Prohibit private entities from giving awards to government employees, government retirees, former elected officials, and former political appointees.

Prohibit US non-profit entities from participating in international sporting events.

Prohibit lobbyists, billionaires, foreign diplomats on US soil, and their first degree relatives from owning, renting, and or using blast shelters and or fallout shelters.

Ban government regulators from owning stocks and other financial instruments in entities they regulate.

Assign at least one new inspector general for each new fiscal outlay exceeding $200 million.

Ban private donor advised funds.

Create a 51-year time limit on private foundations, sending remaining assets to the US Treasury Department.

Ban from government employment any lawyer with previous experience defending defendants of alleged financial crimes and or antitrust lawsuits.

Ban former and current financial industry executives from being employed by either the new central bank or Treasury Department.

Ban government entities from providing insurance, except insurance on crops, savings accounts, and checking accounts.

Strike the phrase undue hardship from laws. Replace with the phrase more harms than benefits.

Require businesses to honor their currently posted prices or provide a rain check or equally priced substitute of greater value to the purchaser.

Eliminate the Conservation Reserve Program.

Ban domestic websites from hosting indoor porn taken with non-consensual spy cameras, requiring websites to have adequate policies to remove such porn.

Ban the issuance of passports to registered sex offenders. Revoke existing passports of registered sex offenders.

Ban the importation of products made by companies having any worker earning less than $6.50 per hour on a purchasing power parity basis, banning such companies from having operations in the United States.

Ban any company with any worker in forced labor or debt peonage to the company, company owners or managers from importing to the United States and operating in the United States.

Require crookedly arrived at windfall profits and market capitalizations to be spent on ethical, productivity increasing activities. If not, tax those windfall profits at high marginal rates.

Prohibit race, crony, gender, religion, veteran, nepotism, ethnicity, disability, and sexual orientation status preferences in government contracting.

Limit the maximum annual non-physician remuneration at companies filing for bankruptcy, emerging from bankruptcy, and or acquiring a company that previously filed for bankruptcy to three times the median household income forever.

Ban the importation of food produced by tenant farmers required to give more than 15 percent of their output to landowners.

Pass HR 928, prohibiting the firing of inspectors general, except for good cause.

Improve oversight per the GAO. Implement GAO recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Prohibit elected officials and political appointees from knowingly hiring first, second, and third-degree relatives, including such in-laws, for government jobs.

Require sports organizations to suspend without remuneration participants injuring others by violating safety related rules for at least twice as long as the injured others remain unable to play.

Provide federally funded occupational licensing exams and self-study courses for all areas of occupational licensing, along with standards permitting licenses. Require states and local governments to grant licenses to individuals passing Federal occupational license exams and character standards.

Ban government funding to medical providers refusing to perform beneficial and or harm reducing medical acts for religious reasons.

Ban currently serving judges and legislators from traveling outside the United States.

Ban anyone with a non-overturned felony conviction from receiving any scholarship from any public post-secondary institution.

Ban remittances and mailings to any land refusing to take back illegal migrants.

Provide federal grants to increase the pay of prosecutors and public defendants.

Ban giving military retirees preferences in civil service hiring.

Require ingredient lists on prepackaged, corporation produced foods to list sweeteners, nitrites, nitrates, celery seed, capsiceae, vinegar, chocolate, citric acid, and garlic in bolded fonts. Prohibit other ingredients from being bolded. Ban foods containing these ingredients from being labeled mild.

Charge unvaccinated hospital patients 40 percent of their hospitalization costs for their hospitalizations caused by relevant pathogens for which affordable, medically effective vaccines were readily available to them.

Require dating apps to charge users $15 per day.

Ban NFTs.

Require surgical sterilization of pets with remaining life expectancies of greater than three years, receiving vet treatment for hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, patellar laxation, brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome, degenerative myelopathy, liver shunts, lymphoma-lymphosarcoma, renal dysplasia, Addison's disease, hemangiosarcoma, mast cell tumors, osteosarcoma, non-struvite bladder stones, and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, if not already sterile.

Ban corporations having market capitalizations above $1.5 million from changing their names.

Draft into the infantry above $560,000 gross income per year individuals from law, finance, lobbying, university, mass media, think tank, and defense contractor entities when United States military monthly combat casualties exceed 200.

Require the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be approved by House majorities.

Prohibit government entities from new rentals or purchases of artistic works costing government entities more than $150.

Eliminate the FTC Bureau of Economics.

Prohibit so-called right to work laws from applying to corporations having any workers earning less than 50 percent of the national mean hourly wage.

Legalize private sector wildcat strikes.

Repeal Section 8(b)(7)(A) of the Labor Act, the part restricting recognitional picketing.

Require all government employees to fully cooperate with relevant ethics and criminal investigations.

Strengthen anti-kickback laws. Make private sector anti-kickback laws as strict as anti-kickback laws involving government purchases.

Prohibit antitrust convicted businesses from making political donations and from owning political media, no matter their name changes and other changes.

Strive to massively reduce the power and profits of parasitic middlemen.

Prohibit 911 mind reading call analysis by law enforcement entities.

Fire government employees manufacturing false flag crimes, except against declared foreign enemies during wars declared by Congress.

Require engineers and applied scientists employed in those fields for at least 15 years to be at least one-third of manufacturing company corporate board members.

Require all foreign and multinational entities operating in the United States to register as foreign agents, having registration fees cover all costs of such administration. Prohibit foreign, multinational, and foreign agent gifts, investments, and or remunerations exceeding $16 to political website entities having more than 90,000 unique US visitors per month. Prohibit foreign entities, multinational entities, and foreign agents from giving political gifts, investments, and remunerations exceeding $16 to US political entities.

Prohibit foreign and or multinational entities from owning and or leasing cable companies, radio stations, radio networks, television stations, television networks, and or any portion of the US electromagnetic spectrum.

Prohibit businesses fined more than 5.5 million dollars for financial or environmental crimes from making political donations and from owning political media, no matter what name changes and other changes they undergo.

Pass the Enhancing Geothermal Production on Federal Lands Act.

Prohibit government entities from hiring consulting firms for non-technology and non-natural science issues.

Eliminate government funding for NPR.

Prohibit remittances and foreign aid to lands sending migration to the United States, along with countries permitting migration through them to the United States.

Prohibit the importation of products labeled organic.

Require the five highest paid individuals in each Federal agency to publish the names of non-agency individuals they meet with on behalf of governance related activities.

Require buyer's cartel government purchases. Require government purchasers to choose the cheaper of identical items, except to meet domestic manufacturing content requirements.

Require government purchasers to choose the better quality of similarly priced items used for the same purpose.

Require domestic government contracting to choose well-reasoned mixes of cost and quality, along with lack of legal and illegal bribery, giving weight to contractors past performances when evaluating quality. Require non-domestic government contracting to resemble the above, plus consider results on wages, trade, security, and the environment.

Repeal existing authorizations for use of military force.

Ban lawsuits by and on behalf of migrants.

Ban US entities and multinational entities operating in the United States from giving gifts exceeding $16 to foreign elected officials and political appointees.

Ban individuals convicted of work-related business felonies and any antitrust crimes from working in the same industries.

Ban government workers convicted of work-related felonies from working for government.

Ban states and local governments from providing transportation incentives for homeless citizens to relocate to other states or municipalities. 

Require hostels, homeless shelters, and other entities having barracks style sleeping arrangements to deny indoor sleeping arrangements to individuals self-reporting fevers, having measured fevers or displaying other blatant signs of air spread pathogenic infections.

Require phone calls be cryptographically signed to prevent spoofing.
Repeal Trump's tax shifts.
Ban the importation of goods containing polyfluoroalkyl or perfluoroalkyl
substances that contradict the domestic PFOA Stewarship Program.
Require public road motor vehicles to pay an annual federal marginal weight
registration tax of $0.90 for each pound over 8,800, including the weight of the
largest trailer owned or rented by owners of tractor trailers.
Require all Federal elected officials and political appointees to make publicly available their tax returns, if any, for the previous four years and for 25 years after leaving office.

Require federal election and political appointee candidates from political parties having at least one current member in Congress to make publicly available their tax returns, if any, for the previous four years.

Pass S.795 giving whistleblower rights to contractors, subcontractors and grantees.

Ban early retirement payouts to government employees deserving firing.

Require landlords to release tenants from leases without negative repercussions when tenants have paid through the current month, have lost their jobs, and their new jobs are at least 13 miles away.

Require inaugurations to be entirely government funded, spending no more than 1.2 million dollars on presidential inaugurations.

During a lethal epidemic or pandemic, ban out of country United States citizens in areas with worse outbreaks than the United States from returning to the United States until either both worldwide and domestic R naughts are below one or 21 days after the such citizens have had a full vaccination course with a relevant, federally approved vaccine.

Ban individuals illegally in the United States from government funded legal counsel.

Prohibit labor unions from suing to prevent automation.

Ban males from competing as females in publicly funded organized sports.

Make 50 years hard labor the mandatory minimum sentence for human trafficking.

Make cocaine a schedule one drug. Remove marijuana from schedule one.

Require government contractors to comply with reasonable non-intellectual property Freedom of Information Act requests.

Prohibit non-residential zoning ordinances affecting commercial shipping containers within 40 miles of ports.

Repeal the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906.

Create a 4.4 year limit on software intellectual property rights held by corporations having market caps greater than 4.8 billion dollars.

Require government purchasing entities to act as buyer cartels or monopsonies.

Require general election ballots to list political candidates from political parties below candidates not belonging to political parties and in reverse order of votes their political parties received in the last election.

Prohibit non-SSI government pensions to former Federal elected officials and political appointees convicted of felonies.

Ban royals from entering the United States, including popes.

Prohibit government guardians from spending client money on frivolous, expensive items to keep client assets below cliff loss levels. Return disability funds above cliff loss levels to the government without unenrolling disabled individuals having government guardians.

Prohibit any current or former corporate executive, having current or former Federal elected office or Federal political appointment, from receiving more than the median annual household income per year from corporations for the remainder of their life.

Prohibit automatic cost of living adjustments in government salaries.

Prohibit foreign and multinational social media entities, operating in the United States, from censoring the political speech of users. Ban violators from operating in the US.

Prohibit plea bargaining with citizens lacking legal counsel, except when those individuals have dismissed hired or appointed legal counsel.

Ban individuals under age 18 from driving or riding ATVs. Ban the sale of ATVs to individuals under age 18.

Ban government employers from requiring masters or PhDs for jobs paying less than $18 per hour.

Prohibit businesses owning so-called cryptocurrencies from operating within the United States and from exporting products into the United States. Ban government entities from making or receiving payments in crypto. Prohibit known crypto businesses from having savings and checking accounts with federally insured banks and credit unions.

Prohibit individuals lacking a valid United States visa or passport from boarding aircraft bound for the United States. Prohibit incoming passenger aircraft from countries repeatedly sending passengers without valid visas or passports.

Prohibit individuals born with male gonads from incarceration in female prisons.

Require majority Congressional approval to extend beyond 20 days any national emergency declared by the president.

Prohibit corporations having book values greater than one million times the median annual household income from owning or renting or otherwise controlling intellectual property rights.

Create an agency to identify monopoly and oligopoly produced imports. Slap a 39 percent tariff on those items when US sales of those items exceed $15 million per year, continuing the tariff until sales drop below $15 million per year or the monopolies and oligopolies no longer exist.

Prohibit corporations, except mortgage granting entities, from owning individual site built houses.

Prohibit corporations, except farm loan granting entities, from owning more than 2.5 acres of land being farmed, except when a majority owner of the corporation and farmland works at least 20 hours per week during summer months at farming.

Prohibit corporations from having exclusive purchase contracts with farmers.

Add these railroad reforms.

Ban top five percent in wealth US citizens from renouncing their US citizenships and or acquiring foreign citizenships or foreign legal residencies. Prohibit them from living outside the United States for more than one month per year.

Require corporate phone service providers to provide immediate location data to local and state emergency responders during emergencies.

Prohibit publicly owned entities from giving salary contracts lasting longer than one calendar year.

Prohibit publicly funded organ transplants to incarcerated felons.

Prohibit organ transplants to non-citizens.

Prohibit foods having more than 15 percent of their calories from sugars or processed meats from having healthy food labels.

Prohibit anyone receiving more than $45,000 in foreign entity income, in any prior year, from federal elected office.

Prohibit anyone having first degree relatives receiving more than $45,000 in foreign entity income, in any prior year, from federal elected office.

Punish NATO ruling classes permitting inward migration for promoting totalitarianism and violating the NATO charter.

Prohibit federal staffers, appointees, and elected officials from receiving gifts or non-governmental remuneration exceeding $16, except below the inflation rate interest on savings and checking accounts.

Ban non-governmental employers from requiring individuals paid less than twice the median annual household income per year to sign non-compete agreements, except for congressionally approved national security work or for apprentice employees receiving at least 600 hours of employer paid training.

Prohibit all government entity slush funds.

Require inspectors general to be appointed by majority vote of existing inspectors general, along with majority house approval.

Fill temporary political appointment vacancies with the next highest ranking person in that government entity until legal approval of permanent replacement.

Ban, based on the ethnoracial status of loan applicants, government entities and publicly traded corporations from giving higher risk loans than they would otherwise give.

Require congresspersons and their staffs to remain in the Capitol building around the clock during periods of government shutdown.

Ban individuals under age 18 from the 25 occupations having the highest rates of fatal and permanently disabling injuries, including at family owned businesses. Ban individuals under age 18 from being cashiers at unlocked door businesses having fewer than three employees on duty.

Prohibit individuals born outside the United States from sponsoring US political activities, including through middlemen. Require Treasury confiscation of such funds, along with criminal prosecution.

Purchase, using eminent domain, sufficiently harmful to break up monopoly and oligopoly companies, keeping the companies privately run but government owned, being vigilant to replace incompetent employees with competent individuals.

Redistribute Congressional salaries to homeless shelters during periods when Congress fails to pass budgets.

Require all corporate, nonprofit, and government entities to reveal donor names for donations greater than $2,000.

Require all government background check systems to notify ICE when anyone illegally in the United States applies for a government background check.

Ban anyone belonging to a foreign terrorism organization from entering or re-entering the United states.

Ban medical corporations from advertising in medical journals.

Ban anyone earning more than eight times the median annual household income in any year from federal political appointments.

Ban rent control nationwide.

Require informing real estate buyers whether properties exist in inundation zones downstream of dams. Provide several billion Federal dollars per year to repair dams and levees. Nationalize private dams having negative expected ethical values to citizens.

Ban labor law exemptions in US territories.

Ban government farm related payments to farmers and ex-farmers and ersatz farmers.

Require government contracts to choose well-reasoned mixes of cost and quality, along with lack of legal and illegal bribery, giving weight to contractors' past performances, plus consider results on wages, trade, security, and the environment.

Prohibit from signing non-classified non-disclosure agreements: all elected officials, political appointees, and government employees earning more than the median household income per year.

Require employers, who failed to pay required payroll taxes over the past 50 years, to pay minimum inflation adjusted fines of at least twice the  unpaid payroll taxes.

Ban exemptions to transparency laws, except classified information.

Make tax returns public for individuals receiving remuneration from foreign, governmental or multinational entities, along with individuals trading more than $150,000 in stocks and or having gross annual incomes greater than six times the median annual household income during the previous tax year.

Require internet retailers having market values greater $100 million to pay all back state sales taxes they failed to pay since 1995, plus inflation rate interest.

Prohibit the sale of indoor air purifiers using ozone generation, electrostatic air cleaning, and photocatalytic oxidation.

Require political appointees to recuse themselves when ethical duties of their jobs conflict with the direct financial interests of their appointers.

Prohibit internet service providers from blocking or slowing political websites.

Prohibit United States entities from investing in the financial instruments of African, Turkish, Russian, Kosovar, Albanian, Indonesian, South American, and continental Asian military firms.

Require judges, political appointees, and elected officials to adhere to similar codes of conduct.

Prohibit US entities from paid lobbying on behalf of foreign and multinational entities. Prohibit paid lobbying by foreign and multinational entities.

Require government entities to pay at least 92 percent of tobacco settlement funds equally and directly to non-smokers, defined as having smoked less than four ounces of tobacco in their lifetimes, having COPD or tobacco related lung cancers or both.

Raise the retirement age for government employees to 65.

Ban government employees from using their government workplace labor and physical goods for private business endeavors.

Ban individuals having registered lobbyist first and or second degree relatives from political appointments and from elected offices. Ban registered lobbyists from accepting either gifts or remuneration from foreign and multinational entities. Pass the Disclosing Foreign Influence Act. Prohibit current and or former registered lobbyists from political appointments and from elected offices.

For the purposes of regulations, define spouses, children, parents, siblings, half siblings, step parents, former spouses, sibling in-laws, sexual partners, adopted children, and former sexual partners as first degree relatives. Define nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and grandchildren, including those through marriage and adoption, as second degree relatives. Define great uncles, great aunts, grand nieces, grand nephews, and first cousins, including those through marriage and adoption, as third degree relatives.

Ban the use of government funds to pay awards and or settlements for crimes and or harms committed by government employees and former government employees. Require out of pocket payments for such awards and or settlements by guilty individuals.

Ban paroled and incarcerated individuals from donating more than $200 to all political entities combined per year.

Move the final in person voting day from a November Tuesday to a November Sunday.

Prohibit military recruiters from lying to recruits. Stopping bonuses to and promotions of repeat offenders.

Prohibit railroad mergers and acquisitions. Treat all railroad entities behaving as monopolies or oligopolies as public utilities.

Ban current and former salaried employees of government contractors from government employment, except in the military, the United States Postal Service, and occupations paying less per year than the median annual household income.

Repeal the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016. It enhances the flood of opiates.

Require campaign funds be spent on only campaign activities.

Cease production of pennies.

Repeal the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Transition Authorization Act, funding for a passenger trip to Mars by 2033.

Permit States to drug test unemployment insurance claimants.

Pass the Secure Elections Act of 2017.

Repeal the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998.

Pass The U.S. Territories Investor Protection Act, closing loopholes protecting financial crimes in US territories.

Pass the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act.

Block porn sites from government owned computers, except law enforcement computers.

Pass the The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act.

Eliminate debt ceilings.

Ban from government appointment any  individual receiving more than $80,000 in any year from any company that obtains over 14 percent of its revenue from government contracts.

Implement a 300 percent VAT on low calorie and zero calorie fat and sugar substitutes.

Switch non-appointed, non-military, non-medical, non-emergency, non-law enforcement federal employees to staggered four day work weeks, with the same number of hours worked per week. Make four days a week, ten hours open the norm.

Fire or impeach most existing Federal elected officials and senior political appointees.

Fire officials above the GS-13 level, who publicly promote anti-vax fallacies.

Require American English only driving tests.

Require all vehicle driving examinations to have monolingual American English examiners.

Require states to suspend driving licenses at least 240 days for driving under the influence convictions.

Require property owners to remove foliage covering parking signs.

Repeal the Cargo Preference Act of 1954.

Require all Roth IRAs to be worth less than $400,000, treating sums above $400,000 as current year income.

Prohibit PAs, physicians, nurse practitioners, medical field executives, and medical field purchasers from receiving gifts or remuneration from pharmaceutical and medical supply businesses.

Reform the Integrity Committee.

Prohibit congressperson participation in Congressional hearings when they have first, second or third degree relatives working for any entity testifying at the hearing.

Require that all companies receiving government contracts and purchases have U.S. residing American citizens for executives and that foreign shareholders own no more than eight percent of any government contract receiving company.

Require all federal agencies to evaluate and implement suggestions having the most overall benefit or least harm when no beneficial alternative exists. Offer $200 and a medal of patriotism to the first submitter of any specific suggestion implemented by the government that saves taxpayers $1000 or more. Make US military spending subject to a new internal affairs and accounting office, with management appointed by the president, with employees forbidden from ever receiving any direct or indirect gift or employment from any military contractor or any other military related employer. Make it a federal offense for any elected politician or subordinate of a politician to in any way threaten an employee of the new office. Require that all new military weapons begin testing as soon as feasible in the development process and continuously.

Restore PUHCA to reduce the power of utility oligopolies.

Require mothers and fathers giving birth out of wedlock, as found by DNA testing, to perform 400 hours of community service or agree to voluntary surgical sterilization, unless the biological mother was a surrogate or was impregnated by eugenic sperm bank.

Eliminate the conservation easement tax entitlement.

Ban former Federal elected officials and Federal political appointees from receiving gifts or remuneration exceeding $16, except from savings accounts, checking accounts, Social Security, government employment, defined benefit retirement plans, and blue collar employment paying less than the median annual household income per year.

Require government and corporate employers to pay $0.50 to workers for every non-voice text or email they send to off-duty employees and subcontractors.

Ban former white collar employees from one or more of the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Federal Reserve Board from receiving any gifts or payments exceeding $50 from any business having a market value greater than 2.7 million dollars.

Ban former state and local law enforcement employees from receiving any gifts or payments exceeding $50 from any business having a market value greater than 1.5 million dollars, located in the law enforcement jurisdictions where they were employed.

Ban current and former elected officials from sitting on non-profit and corporate boards.

Eliminate term limits on elected state and national legislators. Eliminate term limits on House committee chairs. Increase the number of house committees and subcommittees. Assign every member of the House to at least one committee or subcommittee.

Repeal regressive tax shifts since January 1, 1981, except taxes on negative externalities and other harms.

Ban boxing and other forms of sport fighting by individuals under age 19. Require organized sporting entities to pay the full costs of disabilities caused by participation in their sports.

Require anyone knowingly transmitting syphilis or gonorrhea to perform 400 hours of community service. If knowingly transmitting HIV, drug resistant gonorrhea or drug resistant syphilis, require 1500 hours.

Ban collection of child support payments from individuals nonconsensually cuckolded during marriage for those children born to their spouses or former spouses.

Ban laws from punishing anyone for so-called hate, so-called microaggressions, and or so-called implicit biases.

Increase the federal minimum wage at corporations to $12.70 per hour. Increase the federal minimum wage at non-corporate, non-governmental entities having more than 20 workers to $10.95 per hour. Count individuals receiving 1099s as workers for minimum wage purposes.

Pass the Cell Phone Empowerment Act.

Permanently end United States government contracting with Bain, Nike, Titan, CACI, Parsons, Facebook, Amazon, McKinsey, Blackwater, Haliburton/KBR, Goldman Sachs, Dyncorp International, Transatlantic Traders, JPMorgan Chase, and Chinese telecommunication firms. Ban their former and current CEOs from future government contracts.

Prohibit any corporation and its subsidiaries from owning more than two oil refineries. Break up any oil company that extracts more than 11 percent of domestic oil production.

Allow members of Congress at least 100 hours to read bills from the time bills are finalized until voting, except emergency measures. Require Congress to post bills online for at least 100 hours before voting, except emergency measures.

Ban executives of companies guilty of over-billing the government from government employment and from donating to political campaigns.

Bruce S. Jansson: Prohibit ex pentagon employees, military officers or both to work for companies receiving defense contracts or receiving gifts from companies receiving defense contracts. During times of war, require all defense contractors to pay no more than $41,000 per year to any employee or any other individual, which they will gladly accept because they are so patriotic. Require all retired military officers to take a 20 percent reduction in retirement pay during war, which they will also gladly accept because they are so patriotic. Close all loopholes that undermine competition for government contracts. Eliminate cost plus contracts. Create independent civilian boards to award and oversee military contracts. Prohibit former employees of defense contractors from working for the defense department (end of Jansson).

Permit males to prove non-paternity by DNA testing, and when proven, prevent the recording of their names on birth certificates.

Pass pass an affirmative action ethical consistency law, requiring corporations and government entities practicing affirmative action to keep their employee percentages of 104 to 109 IQ ethnoracial groups below 67 percent of those races percentages of the working age population, above 109 IQ  ethnoracial groups below 33 percent of those groups percentages of the working age population.

Require affirmative action supporting employees in industries causing overall harms--film, finance, software, advertising, newspapers, television, universities, lobbying, insurance, real estate, defense contracting, multi-level marketing, precious metals, spectator sports, monopoly dominated industries, and oligopoly dominated industries--from ethnoracial groups having mean IQs above 98 to give their jobs to citizens from below 91 mean IQ ethnoracial groups as logical consistency requires. 

Prohibit federal elected officials and their appointees from working for any lobbying organization at any time of their lives. Ban registered lobbyists and their first degree relatives from government employment for the remainders of their lives, except in military and medical fields.

Ban government entities from contracting consulting with firms having more than 30 employees.

Ban presidential signing statements.

Remove US politicians receiving contributions, gifts or bribes from foreign governments, individuals or organizations, disqualify them from any future political office, prohibit them from contacting any elected U.S. government official. Give all federal elected officials a cost of living allowance equal to the inflation rate every year the US corruption rating, using Transparency International methodology, is 9.4 or higher, a three percent inflation adjusted pay cut every year the score is between 7.9 and 9.4, a six percent pay cut every year it is below 7.9--on top of any increases or decreases passed by voters. Create an independent federal sting operation agency. Randomly select 40 percent of federal elected officials each year for a video and audio recorded attempted sting.

Prohibit government officials and their immediate families from receiving direct or indirect gifts or other payments exceeding $16 from any foreign entities.

Eliminate the OSC and replace it with a new, larger whistleblower agency, whose head is nominated and selected by a majority vote of the second largest party in the House. The agency head may be replaced by only majority vote of the second largest party or two-thirds vote of the House. Pass a law requiring independent audits of all federal agencies at regular intervals, with the intervals determined by well-reasoned cost-benefit arguments.

Award whistleblowers eight percent of corporate fraud fines and awards, up to a maximum of $8.5 million. Reconcile H.R. 985 and S.274, granting whistleblower protections.

Require all large public companies to be audited by accountants appointed by a presidentially appointed and congressionally approved official. Pay the accountants with only public funds and prohibit them from ever directly or indirectly receiving gifts or payments exceeding $16 from a company they audited or will audit or its representatives during their life times. Prohibit such accountants from joining labor unions. Base their pay on accuracy in reporting.

Tax financial instruments annually on a mark-to-market basis.

Ban individuals from adopting anyone over the age of 17.

Require new internal combustion vehicles to have alcohol detecting ignition interlocks.

Pass the Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2011.

Pass a bill that deducts a percentage of payments to government contractors owing back taxes.

Prohibit permitless carry of concealed handguns.

Eliminate the IMF. Replace with nothing or an organization implementing the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission's prescriptions for reforming the IMF.

Use carrot and stick economic policies on most countries with a Freedom House score of 5.5 to seven, a one to seven scale with seven being the worst.

Legalize voluntary euthanasia for individuals having terminal or permanently disabling medical conditions after a 14-day waiting period.

Ban the sale of glowing screens to individuals under the age of 18.

Require a two-year all costs minimum warranty for all parts repairs, except those resulting from user misuse, on all new physical goods sold.

Pass the Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014, banning US corporations from reincorporating elsewhere to evade US laws.

Nine years from now require 100 percent of new aircraft and pharmaceuticals sold or imported into the US to have at least 56 percent local United States content manufacturing value added. Require the same for medical grade masks within 16 months. Require 100 percent of US military combat software to be 100 percent created in NATO nations, Australia, and New Zealand. Require at least 94 percent of military equipment to have at least 87 percent NATO manufacturing value added, except equipment obtained for testing or reverse engineering, granting waivers only when no plausible NATO manufacturer exists, stockpiling supplies of parts manufactured outside NATO. Eight years from now require at least 65 percent of government purchased RAM, microprocessors, and hard drives to be manufactured in the United States.

Ban the sale of internal combustion yard care equipment louder than 85 decibels at seven meters.

Create a 1.2 percent annual, marginal wealth tax on individuals and non profits having net worth above $88 million and a 1.9 percent annual, marginal wealth tax on individuals and non profits having net worth above $611 million.

Remove the names of the last 11 presidents from public roads and structures. Remove the names of federal judges serving in the past 60 years from public roads and structures. Remove the names of congresspersons serving in the last 35 years from public roads and structures.

Require private employers to permit union representatives to meet with employees on company property during non-work periods.

Repeal parts of laws containing the phrase least restrictive environment(s).

Prohibit government employees earning more than 160 percent of local median household income in government salaries from having other source annual incomes greater than their government salaries, except physicians earning more per year treating patients.

Require government entities to increase conviction punishments on repeat offenders for each similar or worse conviction.

Prohibit government funding for international athletic competitions. Prohibit government funding for individuals and teams competing in international athletic competitions.

Prohibit for lifetime from lobbying activities, including assistance to lobbyists: current or former government employees, who for at least one year earned from government entities more than the median household income.

Prohibit from political appointment and elected office anyone who ever received in a year more than three times the median national household income from all non-government employment related sources.

Prohibit from political appointment anyone who received gifts exceeding $600 in total value, during the previous ten years, from any entity other than United States citizen sex partners or closer than fourth degree relatives, including relatives by biology, marriage, and legal United States citizen adoption.

Prohibit former political appointees from receiving gifts exceeding $600 in value, for the rest of their lives, from any entity other than United States citizen sex partners or closer than fourth degree relatives, including relatives by biology, marriage, and legal United States citizen adoption.

Prohibit federal and state elected officials and political appointees from owning stocks and bonds.

Prohibit retailers from owning search engines and search engine companies from retail sales.

Prohibit elected officials and political appointees from receiving gifts from or doing work for previous employers and paying clients while in office.

Prohibit federal and state elected officials and political appointees from returning to work for any previous employer or paying clients for 10 years after leaving office, except United States government employers.

Prohibit the political appointment of anyone closer than fourth degree relative to the nominator, whether by biology, marriage or US legal adoption.

Prohibit gonad damaging surgeries on anyone under age 18 for gender ideology reasons. Prohibit sex hormone therapies on individuals under 18 for gender ideology reasons. Prohibit government funded gender "reassignment" surgeries and sex hormone therapies. Prohibit government funding for gender alteration activism.

Prohibit any current or former government employee from receiving any gift or remuneration exceeding $16 from any entity the government employee helped award a government contract exceeding $2,000.

Ban special purpose acquisition companies.

Eliminate the 14-day camping limit on federal and state lands each year that housing inflation exceeds the overall inflation rate.

Pass the Canadian Snowbirds Act and Eminent Domain Just Compensation Act.

Ban building government buildings having brutalist and postmodern architectural styles.

Triple the Obama tax on tanning machine use.

Pass the Modern Employment Reform, Improvement, and Transformation (MERIT) Act, streamlining the process for firing government employees.

Ban the sale of metal grill brushes and any other metal brushes advertised for use on grills.

Prohibit businesses with market capitalizations greater than 1.1 million times the median national per capita annual income from mergers and acquisitions.

Ban individuals with unclean hands and forearms from touching the genital areas of women giving birth.

Implement stricter anti-leak standards on bottles of bleach, ammonia, and detergents.

Create an incoming non-manufacturing foreign capital market access charge similar to this but without the competitiveness account.

Pass the Music Modernization Act. 

Pass the ADA Education and Reform Act.

Enact a 30-year moratorium on government funded religious, humanities, sociology, management, marketing, physiognomy, economics, parapsychology, global studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, political science, cultural anthropology, sports psychology, social psychology, sports management, international business, international economics, comparative psychology, restorative justice, alternative medicine, developmental psychology, and educational psychology research, except economics research by the Department of Labor.

Require non-classified government funded research to be open access.

Prohibit foreign funding of humanities and social science research within the United States.

Inaugurate presidents and congresspersons on January 2nd. Make the federal government's fiscal year coincide with the calendar.

Pass the Depression Side Effect Labeling Awareness Act, Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act, Payment Integrity Information Act, Clean Up the Code Act, and the Settlement Agreement Information Database Act.

Prohibit government marriages by individuals under 18 to adults.

Legalize the sale of feral swine meat.

Repeal the misnamed Never Forget the Heroes Act and FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act

Require the production of all coins to cost less than the nominal values of the coins.

Pass the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act, storing nuclear waste in Yucca mountain.

Prohibit state and federal elected officials from having sexual intercourse with anyone other than their spouses.

Auction 3.6 acres of Federal land and 0.1 acres of state land to private entities per non-citizen entering the country and not leaving or dying within 270 days.

Implement a nationwide helmet law for one, two, and three wheel vehicles ridden on publicly owned roads.

JT Fournier, last updated August 7, 2022

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