Energy Policy Recommendations

Provide federal funding to build at least 58,000 US roundabouts at sufficiently beneficial locations, with a mean cost of no more than $305,000 per roundabout.

Eliminate fuel economy rules (CAFE) for vehicles. 

Ban the carbon offsets, cash-for-clunkers, and cap-and-trade financial scams.

Create a nine cents per pound federal sales tax on motor vehicle fuels derived from fossil fuels. Increase the tax with the CPI plus one cent per pound each month for 22 years, then continue to increase with the CPI. Break off trade relations with any non-OPEC nation that does not enact similar or larger Pigouvian taxes on motor vehicle fossil fuels. Create a $21 per ton of carbon emissions negative externality tax on fossil fuel generated electricity from utilities. Increase the tax with the CPI plus three dollars each year for the next 26 years, then continue to increase with the CPI. Offset the regressive effect of this and other Pigouvian taxes by gradually eliminating the 15.3 percent payroll taxes on productive work, using taxes on negative externalities for Social Security and healthcare.

Slap escalating with prices taxes on imported fossil fuels costing greater than 31 percent more than the costs of production and transportation. Encourage other nations to do likewise, adding additional negative externality taxes on imports from nations that refuse.

Require non-nuclear ships and boats above 800 metric tons, docked in US ports, to go cold iron, except when sailing within 2.5 hours.

Create electronic vouchers to energy inspect and weatherize utility using United States buildings not already inspected and or weatherized. 

Mail, with instructions, to every United States household: an Ambient Orb, Kill-A-Watt, electric mattress pad, mini power minder, and window bubble wrap for Christmas.

Ban NIMBY lawsuits and HOA regulations restricting the use of energy conservation practices and non-fossil fuel sources of energy, along with state and local government regulations doing the same.

Create a GPS air traffic control system.

Eliminate the fraud riddled Energy Star program. Ban Energy Star labeling on products. 

Repeal the Jones Act, requiring US built ships for domestic shipping. Eliminate the harbor maintenance tax on domestic shipping.

Approve the construction and use of well-designed, well-regulated fast breeder reactors and nuclear energy facilities.

Legalize the licensed adults only use of licensed four wheel vehicles not passing federal passenger safety standards on roads and private properties having speed limits under 26 miles per hour.

Repeal the 25 percent tariff on imported light trucks.

Require government buildings to avoid using air conditioning to cool spaces below 71 degrees and to avoid heating spaces above 68 degrees, except when sufficiently beneficial for scientific or medical or military or shelf life storage reasons.

Eliminate tariffs on non-fossil fuel energy equipment, including rechargeable batteries and other energy storage equipment.

Require new electric vehicles to have standardized connections to charging stations. Require charging stations to charge competitors' electric vehicle models.

Provide federal funds to construct additional freeway ramps when the overall benefits outweigh harms.

Prohibit state, local, and judicial entities from blocking energy relevant projects and policies approved by Congressional and or executive branch entities.

Repeal the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Repeal the misnamed Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

Require mineral and fossil fuel extraction entities to create and sufficiently fund negative externality escrow accounts to pay for remediation of harmful leaks and land pollution caused by their activities.

Ban the use of corn stover for utility electrical production.

Create mandatory minimum sentences of at least one day of hard labor for each $20 of harms caused by energy grid attacks, plus mandatory minimum lifetime hard labor sentences for energy grid attacks causing deaths, the same for attacks on energy grid equipment manufacturers and distributors, likewise for attacks on shipping, railroads, and trucking.

Enact these nuclear energy reforms.

Prohibit government entities from requiring vehicle purchases through dealerships and other middlemen.

Ban government entities from charging electric streetcar and cable car companies for street maintenance.

Prohibit government entities from blocking private construction of and or operation of energy projects having prior legal approval, except when new evidence beyond a reasonable doubt arises that such projects will cause at least three times as many harms as benefits.

Implement the Seams electrical grid policy conclusions.

Ban states from closing rest areas, except for short-term repairs. Auction empty land in large rest areas for gas stations and charging stations.

Pass the Atomic Energy Advancement Act.

Prohibit states from banning the sale, purchase, licensing, and registration of Federally approved hybrid and internal combustion engine vehicles obtaining at least 22 city and 28 highway miles per gallon. 

Prohibit states from banning the sale, purchase, licensing, and registration of Federally approved non-internal combustion engine vehicles.

Prohibit regulators from issuing command and control vehicle sales and purchase requirements by vehicle energy source type.

Prohibit tax expenditures for motor vehicle sales, rentals, and or purchases. 

Require proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the benefits of any government-funded charging station outweigh the costs before funding such construction.

Pass the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024. 

Amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to eliminate most of its provisions, except the toilet rules.

Move all federal motor vehicle manufacturing regulatory entities to the Department of Energy. Prohibit state motor vehicle manufacturing regulations.

Prohibit government entities from paying resource extracting entities to extract fewer resources.

Eliminate most government mandates requiring private energy conservation.

JT Fournier, last updated November 23, 2024

Foreign Policy Recommendations

Vaccinate at least 98 percent of children worldwide for measles. Deliver insecticide sprayed mosquito netting to at least 98 percent of individuals in malaria prone areas.

Bellagio Study Group: Spend 2.5 billion dollars yearly for prevention and treatment of malaria worldwide, four billion dollars yearly for treatment of other childhood illnesses. Per Bjorn Lomborg: Spend $60 million each year to provide micronutrients to 140 million undernourished children. Per the Stop TB Partnership: Provide DOTS tuberculosis treatment to almost all TB victims. Provide hepatitis B vaccinations to high risk individuals. Increase research for dengue fever prevention and treatment.

Ethically fund, oversee, regulate, and enforce a global plan to end tuberculosis by 2030.

Create a $4.1 billion fund to conduct bio-prospecting research and development medically beneficial substances in poor country biological hot-spots, provided any beneficial substances discovered during the prospecting enters the public domain.

Create coordinated import controls of imported oil, so prices do not skyrocket when glitches occur.

Prohibit US government foreign aid, except aid for family planning, illness prevention, medical treatments, and defense from aggression, likewise for private entities receiving US government contracts and or tax entitlements. Require all such aid to be in goods and or services, not money.

Ban all US state, local, and or federal government sponsored or insured loans to foreign and or multinational entities. Prohibit US government entities from insuring and or bailing out entities holding bad loans from foreign and or multinational entities.

Prohibit US partnerships, US corporations, US insured entities, and multinational entities employing US citizens from making loans to foreign governments.

Prohibit imports from entities failing to meet at least the minimum ILO health and safety standards. Prohibit imports from entities failing to pay purchasing power parity adjusted minimum wages greater than half the US Federal minimum wage.

Treat required military service for entities engaging in aggression, oligarchism, legalized bribery, plutocratic mass media domination, and criminal punishment of non-wealthy individual political speech as forced labor. Prohibit trade with such entities and other entities using forced labor.

 
William Greider: Eliminate parts of trade agreements with anything similar to NAFTA's Chapter 11.

Require Peace Corps employees to have beneficial, relevant ethical, scientific, and or technical expertise.

Break off trade relations with nations requiring death, imprisonment or corporal punishment for sexual preference status.

Ban any foreign and or multinational entity from suing any US entity for libel and or slander in any US court. Ban any US entity from upholding any foreign libel, slander and or speech crimes against US entities.

Implement the Copenhagen Consensus 2012 prescriptions.

Replace many import bans from highly unethical global and foreign entities with large negative externality taxes on imports from those entities. Require US allies to do likewise, enacting Pigouvian import taxes on nations refusing to enact the negative externality taxes.

Require strict oversight of all foreign aid.

Prohibit government employees from having romantic and sexual activities with non-US citizens.

Donate and administer 16 million malaria vaccinations per year.

Withdraw US funding for and membership in the club for oligarchal dictatorships, also known as the United Nations, including voluntary contributions, except activities with sufficiently high expected values, including anti-dysgenic policies and positive eugenic policies. Sell the UN building to private entities.

Ban donations of taxpayer money to foreign and international NGOs engaged in political activism.

Defund USAID political programs.

Increase funding for beneficial randomized, active controlled studies, using researchers with excellent knowledge, track records, and willingness to examine all relevant factors. Require publication of all such studies, to reduce publication bias. Increase funding for replication research of such studies.

Create a federally funded internet tube channel or site teaching antitrust, helpful technologies, ethical reasoning, anti-corruption tactics, positive practices to spread beneficial genes, health practices, dysgenics prevention, methods of democracy, and other beneficial subjects, having selectable subtitles in dozens of common languages, correctly defining eugenics as increasing the percentages of genes producing beneficial long-term ethical consequences, defining dysgenics as increasing the percentages of genes producing harmful long-term ethical consequences.

Conduct a randomized, active controlled study of copper alloy plated silverware to prevent dysentery and food poisoning. Do likewise for copper alloy plated plates. And again for copper alloy interior plated drinking water receptacles. Do a study of eating utensils heated to at least 165° Fahrenheit prior to eating. Do efficacy studies of differing methods of hand washing.

Ban the export of tobacco products. Ban the foreign sale of liquor and tobacco products using brand names originating in the US.

Prohibit current or former US corporations, nonprofits, millionaires, billionaires, and trillionaires from giving financial and or material assistance to primarily political foreign and or multinational entities.

Increase research on push-pull pest mitigation plants and practices.

Ban waste disposal of non-rag, non-hazardous, non-undergarment serviceable clothing. Require used, serviceable clothing, including footwear, to be sold or given to other entities, including international charities.

Increase incentives in the Priority Review Voucher program to increase development of cultural and medical interventions having high expected values but low profitability.

Pass the Desert Locust Control Act.

Prohibit US enforcement of non-compete, non-disclosure, and or non-solicitation agreements with private entities that operate in non-democratic countries and or in countries that block self-determination of non-aggressive groups.

Prohibit secret investor-state dispute settlements.  Require Congressional approval of dispute settlement arbitrators. Prohibit lawsuits seeking payments for profit losses caused by fiscal and or monetary policies. 

Withdraw from parts of treaties containing unethical claims.

Prohibit companies from countries opposing democracy, self-determination, and or basic workers' rights of non-aggressive entities from participating in US financial securities exchanges, along with banning companies from countries waging wars of aggression.

Prohibit exemptions to US labor, safety, and environmental regulations in so-called free trade zones.

Prohibit foreign and multinational donations to and purchases from nonprofit entities operating in the United States, except nonprofit entities devoted to providing food, housing, and healthcare to low income individuals.

Pass the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act.

Ban US entities from constructing buildings in tropical and subtropical countries having fewer than 8.5 equivalent air changes per hour.

Prohibit US government entities from funding social science research outside the United States, except research directly relevant to foreign policies and or international economics, including military policies.

Prohibit US government entity terrorism, insurgency, counterterrorism, and or counterinsurgency military and financial assistance to foreign entities, except for allies and enemies during wars declared by Congress.

Repeal the McCarran-Walter Act. Repeal the Hart-Celler Act. Repeal the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986.

Ban US government assistance to foreign schools and or to US students attending foreign schools, except to US citizen students attending foreign and US government accredited human medical field or veterinary field schools, costing less than a quarter of similar US schools.

JT Fournier, last updated May 11, 2024

Freedom Policy Recommendations

Repeal the Military Commissions Act and 2006 Defense Authorization Act. Eliminate the Department of Homeland Security, devolving any beneficial functions to other entities.

Pass the Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act of 2007, Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007, Congressional Lawmaking Authority Protection Act of 2007, Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007, American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba Detention Center Closure Act of 2007, Military Commissions Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007, Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007, National Security Letters Reform Act of 2007, State Secrets Protection Act, National Security with Justice Act of 2007, Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007, Open Government Act of 2007, Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act (OPEN) Government Act of 2007, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, Whistleblower Protection Bill, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Modernization Act of 2007, RESTORE Act of 2007 (Responsible Electronic Surveillance that is Overseen, Reviewed and Effective Act), Executive Branch Accountability Act of 2009, OPEN FOIA Act of 2009, FISA Amendments Act of 2009, National Security Letters Reform ACT of 2009, State Secrets Protection Act, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Protection Act of 2009, and NSA Oversight Act. 

Amend laws to eliminate contradictions among laws, focusing on improving long-term ethical consequences.

Repeal the USA Patriot Act.

Repeal the National Defense Authorization Acts of 2011 and 2013.

Repeal the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.

Permit property owners and renters to audio and video record without consent almost everywhere on their own and rented properties, except bathrooms, bedrooms, shower rooms, and changing rooms.

Allow private companies and individuals to deliver all forms of mail.

Require at least 40 percent of government funded and or provisioned food bank food given by weight to be from legumes, not counting lentils, green beans, yellow split peas, and added sugar legumes.

Prohibit sales, excise, property, advertising, gross receipts, and or value-added taxes on fans, vents, seeds,  condoms, legumes, diapers, strollers, pacifiers, insulation, toothbrushes, N95 masks, dental floss, hand grips, child care, wrist weights, boric acid, interior paints, exterior paints, plumbing supplies, roofing materials, building siding materials, building wiring materials, residential rents, exercise bands, exercise tubes, nicotine gum, hard orthotics, smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, fallout shelters, car seats, cribs, bassinets, jumpers, baby gates, highchairs, breast pumps, nursing pads, infant formula, baby bottles, mattress covers, rechargeable batteries, adjustable seat stationary bicycles, replacement windows, lead-free ammunition, door security devices, window security devices, prescription eyeglasses, insulation installations, air filtration equipment, non-motorized yard and garden equipment, menstrual hygiene products, psyllium husk fiber, prescription medical devices, used goods sold by non-corporations and not subject to negative externality taxes, commercial rents under $5,000 per month, greater than $10,000 industrial machinery, new tires when an identical number of old tires have been returned for proper disposal, unprepared and prepared foods containing fewer than 12 percent of their calories from meat and harmful carbs, greater than 29 SPF sunscreens, greater than 98 percent of UV blocking window tinting, greater than 99 percent of UV blocking glasses, greater than 98 percent of UV blocking hats larger than two square feet, Aeron style or better chairs under $800, athletic shoes under $80, along with cob, mudbrick, earthbag, earthship, straw bale, earth block, rammed earth, and fiberglass building materials.

Eliminate federal grants to local government entities failing to reign in  non-farm crowing roosters and barking outdoor dogs.
 

Prohibit sales, excise, and value-added taxes on medically beneficial services and medically beneficial pharmaceuticals under 50 cents per dose.

Ban government entities from requiring funeral directors after deaths. Ban government entities from requiring cremations or burials of miscarriages and aborted fetuses. Ban government entities from requiring burial caskets. Ban government entities from requiring that ocean scattered cremated remains be scattered any specific distance from shore. Ban government entities from banning home property burials, provided next-of-kin sign legal statements agreeing that they have no legal rights to visit the burial sites should the property be obtained by entities not willing to grant access. Ban cemeteries from requiring customers to buy markers or headstones from only them.

Repeal the Passenger Vessels Services Act.

Ban government entities from purchasing advertising on media entities containing political content.

Prohibit child support requirements from non-biological and non-legally adopted alleged parents of children. Permit anyone accused of being the biological parent of a child to obtain DNA evidence proving parenthood or non-parenthood.

Require that at least 97 percent of state and federal goods purchases by price be at least 95 percent manufactured in the US, except during pandemic national emergencies or wars consuming at least 40 percent of GDP, beginning 44 months after passage of this law.

Ban chiropracty and acupuncture.

Ban phase I, II, and III trials from charging study participants.

Require Internet transactions to pay the same sales, excise, and value-added taxes as other transactions. Pass a net neutrality law.

Prevent operating system providers from restricting customer chosen use of non-malware third party applications.

Repeal Section 1021 and Section 1022 from the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.

Ban entities convicted of wage theft from government contracts.

Prohibit government entities from requiring running water in homes worth under $80,000, provided such homes have rain barrels or tanks with combined storage greater than 200 gallons per person living in the households.

Require all law enforcement officials to take an annual oath stating it is not illegal to audio or video record the public behaviors of law enforcement officials and that they will not arrest or prosecute anyone for audio or video recording public activities, and that they will not confiscate those audio or video recordings. Withhold federal funds to any state or local government that concocts laws banning the recording of any public activities.

Do not enforce federal laws on the distribution and possession of laughing gas and alkyl nitrites in states that have decriminalized these substances.

Prohibit face and body exposing interviews for Federal government jobs, except in the Department of Defense and Department of Justice.

Prohibit laws restricting the use of cognitive testing by schools and employers.

Expand 18 USC 610 to include the coercion or commanding or intimidation of private sector, state government, and local government employees to have or not have specific political views, not including any claim to employment based on having political views differing from employers.

Grant any citizen significantly harmed by a monopoly or oligopoly the right the launch antitrust lawsuits.

Pass the Community Access Preservation Act of 2009 and The Local Community Radio Act. Ban media mergers and acquisitions involving media corporations having book values greater than $60 million. Prohibit all foreign entities from owning any US media entity that uses the US electromagnetic spectrum or has wires crossing US public lands.

Ban scroll increasing software updates without user opt-in.

Ban managers and employers from receiving any portion of tips given to other workers.

Pass the Open App Markets Act.

Require non-gated publicly owned parking lots and entities sending or receiving semi shipments to permit licensed semis and semi drivers to park and sleep overnight during non-working hours when available spaces exist, eliminating those entities' lawsuit liabilities for damages suffered by such drivers and semis. Create a $600 mandatory minimum littering fine at such locations.

Prohibit states from restricting judges' jury award changes.

Repeal all exemptions from libel and slander laws for all charities and corporations worth more than $24 million.

Randomly survey Lifeline phone participants. Prohibit companies having year-long user reported ratings below 2.8 on a zero to five scale from participating in the program.

Repeal the Hart–Cellar Act.

Pass the IG Independence and Empowerment Act.

Defund highway removal programs.

Strike investor state dispute settlements from trade agreements.

Prohibit purchasers of properties from being bound by restrictive covenants created by property sellers.

Prohibit government employees, former regulators, former political appointees, and former elected officials from non-disclosure agreements, including verbal non-disclosure agreements, except for classified information and attorney-client privileges. 

Prohibit states and local governments from regulating the amounts landlords charge for security deposits. Require new tenants to post photographic evidence of rental unit conditions to unalterable, date stamped internet sites.

Pass the Corporate Executive Accountability Act.

Require every publicly traded corporation to have at least one worker, elected by non-supervisory co-workers, on its board of directors.

Implement most of these reforms by Scott Amey, Sean Moulton, Geoff Wilson, Joanna Derman, and Joe Spielberger.

Ban US citizens and former citizens from donating to non-domestic politicians, political campaigns, and political NGOs.

Pass the Import Security and Fairness Act, closing the loophole permitting counterfeit imports and imports failing to pay fees, duties, and taxes.

Eliminate the so-called Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Use payment oversight reforms.

Ban current and former Federal elected officials and political appointees, along with their first degree relatives, including by marriage, from sitting on corporate and charitable boards.

Strengthen the Freedom of Information Act.

Pass the Freedom and Right to Emancipate from Exploitation Act, helping prevent advantage taking of adults having guardians.

Require providers of gift cards and under $100 balance remaining prepaid debit cards to return remaining balances to card bearers in cash upon bearer request. Prohibit gift cards and prepaid debit cards from having expiration dates. Prohibit fees on gift cards and prepaid debit cards.

Prohibit property theft by squatting.

Prohibit foreign and or multinational entities from donating to entities operating in the United States, except for food, housing, and healthcare donated to individuals below the top 10 percent in wealth or incomes.

Prohibit state and local taxes on non-alcohol foods served for takeout or outdoor dining.

Require all legal and financial  documents electronically communicated to US entities by corporations and US government entities to be in file formats openable by all common computer and smartphone operating systems without recipients having to download additional programs.

Ban law enforcement entities from supervising and or serving as coroners and or medical examiners.

Prohibit tariffs on scooters, bicycles, and electric motor vehicles weighing under 5,100 pounds.

Require employee classification for citizens working for the same entity at least 80 days per year and not having a business license while working for the entity.

Pass the 2022 CFO Vision Act and 2021 Administrative False Claims Act.

Ban anyone having a financial crime conviction, causing greater than $5,000 in harms, from political appointments and government elected positions. Ban CEOs, former CEOs, and corporate majority owners, who previously filed for personal or business bankruptcy, from political appointments and government elected positions. 

Prohibit foreign governments from suing US citizens having wealth under 9.4 million dollars in US courts. Prohibit foreign governments from suing non- multinational US organizations having book values under 19.1 million dollars in US courts.

Pass the Protection from Abusive Passengers Act. Permit airline pilots above 65 to continue piloting if they have overall health and cognitive functioning, including fluid reasoning, better than the median 60-year-old. Require such pilots to undergo annual tests for overall health and cognitive functioning.

Ban non-disclosure agreements involving government entities and government employees, except for sufficient physical safety and national security reasons.

Ban requiring building permits for structures under 100 square feet.

Pass the Allied Partnership and Port Modernization Act and the Incentivizing Expansion of US ports Act.

Prohibit white collar criminals, who caused at least $200,000 in harms, from prison early release programs.

Pass the Competitive Dollar for Jobs and Prosperity Act. Suspend "tax waivers on foreign government holdings of US financial assets in the" United States... "offset purchases of the foreign assets those countries found to be engaging in currency manipulation purchases known as countervailing currency intervention." Pass the Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act.

Prohibit employers from requiring workers to kneel while working.

Prohibit business and foreign entity software from collecting and distributing users' geolocation data, except for 911 services and or when users click to opt in to only geolocation data specific questions.

Prohibit corporate user agreements from containing provisions violating state, local, and or federal laws.

Prohibit any entity from remotely turning on any US citizen electronic device without a court ordered warrant from a democratically elected US citizen judge.

Prohibit private employers from demanding access to electronic devices owned by employees and contractors.

Require drivers to be paid hourly wages, reserving per mile remuneration for work caused costs on drivers' own vehicles.

Eliminate federal and state term limits, except those related to retirement ages.

Ban Chinese, Russian, and OIC companies from US stock exchanges.

Ban States and local governments from prohibiting mandatory water breaks..

Require watermarking computer generated human images owned and or distributed by government entities and for-profit media entities as computer generated. Require water marking computer altered human images owned and or distributed by government entities and for-profit media entities as computer altered.

Require at least one "Pedestrians have the right of way everywhere in parking lots and on sidewalks," sign in all parking lots larger than 6,000 square feet.

Require book value greater than 3,010,000 times median annual household income businesses to break up, banning any entity from owning a plurality or more of more than one offshoot.

Prohibit exclusive recording and broadcasting rights of public amateur competitions.

Ban for profit electronic device operating systems designers from including political propaganda in their operating systems.

Eliminate the HUD rule requiring 10-year battery smoke detectors.

Pass the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. Pass the Ending Platform Monopolies Act.

Ban any individual from simultaneously sitting on the board of more than one corporation or charity.

Pass the Delete Act regulating data brokers.

Matt Stoller: break up the FDA, "so that its drugs and food divisions are separate, and it needs to take its mandate seriously to make for a resilient supply chain."

Pass the Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act of 2022.

Ban race, ethnicity, and religion norming government and corporate employee performance evaluations.

Ban government entity exemptions from sales, excise, and value added taxes.

Pass a federal law similar to the West Virginia Wage Payment and Collection Act (PDF).

Require publicly traded corporations to change their charters when shareholders holding at least 55 percent of their stocks approve, provided the changes do not violate laws and legal contracts.

Require public publication of budget appropriation requests made by government entities, except Federal top secret requests.

Require clear, non-verbose, well-defined language in government rules.

Permit websites to put warnings about cookies in small fonts at the bottoms of pages rather than using pop-ups.

Ban government contracting with media companies having book values greater than 1.4 billion dollars. Ban government contracting with media companies having billionaires as shareholders.

Prohibit employers whose majority of goods and or services produced are not political and or religious from punishing their workers for not attending political and or religious training.

Prohibit employees working for employers whose majority of goods and or services produced are political and or religious from suing their employers and or fellow employees for political and or religious reasons.

Prohibit labor unions from punishing  union members for not attending union events, except employees of the labor union.

Prohibit states and local governments from regulating embryo screenings.

Pass the Preventing a Patronage System Act.

Ban the sale, purchase, and importation of guard dog, brachycephalic dog, and chronic pain prone dog breeds— including Rottweilers, pitbulls, and their mixes—except by military and law enforcement entities. Ban the sale, purchase, importation, and deliberate  breeding of dog breeds and mixed breeds causing more than ten human mauling deaths per decade, per 3.8 million breed population.

Ban the sale, purchase, and importation of dog breeds having mean adult weights greater than 60 pounds.

Ban the sale and purchase of the 14 dog breeds most likely to suffer heat stroke at counties and parishes having mean summer daytime highs greater than Milwaukee.

Prohibit local government regulations from restricting the capture and elimination of harmful wild and feral animals.

Prohibit zoning ordinances for fallout shelters.

Ban for-profit computer operating system corporations from selling software other than operating systems.

Require businesses to return positive balances to customers canceling services, regardless of scam language buried in user agreements.

Ban corporations from owning or leasing slaughterhouses; ban corporations from owning or leasing seafood or freshwater food processing facilities; require such ownership by sole proprietors or first degree relative partnerships, limiting owners to one such facility, banning subleasing.

Pass the Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act.

Ban publicly funded faculty and administrators from accepting non-school remuneration for speeches.

Ban political appointees and elected officials from making purchases worth over $2,000 for under 80 percent of market value.

Ban political appointees and elected officials from selling objects and services for more than 120 percent of market value.

Require the central bank to make all its loan information public.

Prohibit states and local governments from requiring GMO labeling on GMO foods.

Impeach every living ex-president.

Restore legal duties and funding to the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration, along with Farmer Fair Practices Interim Final Rules. Repeal the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.

Prohibit worker, management, and contractor contracts restricting the use of ethically efficient automation.

Require entities hiring non-business license having repair, domestic, construction, and landscaping help to provide 1099s when their helpers' annual remuneration exceeds $500.

Require each subscription having business to have an unsubscribe link in at least 12 point font on its home page, taking subscribers to only one other page, where subscribers may unsubscribe while being asked no more than three questions.

Ban states and local governments from prohibiting businesses from displaying photos of thieves, robbers, and murderers. Prohibit states and local governments from banning facial recognition technologies. 

Permit neither selling nor leasing parts of the US electromagnetic spectrum to foreign and multinational entities.

Prohibit states and local governments from restricting which groups elected officials and political appointees belong to, except rape, murder, terrorism, monarchism, religious rule, and financial crime advocating groups.

Create a resolution, in the event of coercive take over of Taiwan by China, recognizing the Taiwanese government as the government of all China, except Tibet.

Require anonymous coroners or medical examiners in politically relevant cases, assigned by an inspector general.

Prohibit non-disclosure agreements between government entities and businesses, except for sufficient trade secret and national security reasons.

Require leasors to release housing leasees from leases upon written request of leasees or their legal representatives when leasees have been hospitalized for more than one week or are the victim of law enforcement documented stalking or acquire a new government determined disability.

Create a mandatory minimum sentence of two days hard labor for protesters deliberately blocking and or delaying the legal movement of vehicles and or pedestrians for each vehicle and or pedestrian blocked and or delayed.

Require open to the public government offices to open later and remain open until at least 7:00 p.m. at least one day per week.

Prohibit non-compete agreements for any non-governmental employee earning under a yearly mean of $1,650 per week, except any worker practicing US government security clearances or being an employer's highest paid worker or receiving at least 600 hours of employer paid training in the previous year. 

Prohibit non-compete agreements for 1099 recipients earning under a mean of $780 per work day.

Ban non-compete agreements for gig workers earning under the 1099 yearly minimum.

Prohibit explicit and de facto no-poach agreements between and among non-governmental employers, except for chief executives at companies having more than 20 employees.

Ban no-poach agreements for 1099 recipients.

Ban non-solicitation agreements for employees earning under a yearly mean of $930 per week, except employees practicing US government security clearances or receiving more than 600 hours of employer paid training in the previous year.

Ban non-solicitation agreements for 1099 recipients.

Void non-compete and non-solicitation agreements at non-governmental entities that are seeking or have received bankruptcy protections, except for chief executives and employees practicing US government security clearances. 

Void non-compete and non-solicitation agreements for defunct employers.

Prohibit cell phone companies, internet service providers, and publicly funded Wi-Fi providers from blocking domestic political websites.

Pass the Journalism Competition Preservation Act of 2021.

Prohibit rental application fees from exceeding 290 percent of the local minimum hourly wage.

At the start of each presidential term, randomly select congresspersons to appoint one person to the White House Office of Legal Counsel, until filling the entire OLC staff. Fire unselected staff from the previous administration. Prohibit executive branch members from firing OLC staff. Require at least 60 percent Congressional vote to fire OLC staff. Require public publication of all non-classified OLC opinions.

Prohibit states and local governments from restricting the sheathed carry of machetes and hunting knives for hunting, gathering, gardening, landscaping, and self-defense purposes on open to the public sidewalks, in lawfully possessed vehicles, on possessor owned properties, on possessor rented properties, and on non-restricted public lands by adults having neither felony nor violent misdemeanor convictions.

Require government investigators to recuse themselves when investigations should investigate first, second or third degree relatives of investigators. Or current or former lovers or classmates of investigators. Or their employers or employees.

Ban any entity being non-labor boycotted, threatened with a non-labor boycott or threatened by extortion related criminal activities, from giving money, goods, services or employment to the entities threatening them or to other entities allied with the threatening entities.

Prohibit current and former elected officials and political appointees from signing non-disclosure agreements with businesses, except for sufficient national security or intellectual property protection reasons.

Prohibit zoning ordinances, except those prohibiting probable, sufficiently harmful noise violations, street parking violations, safety violations, pollution violations and or mood altering drug violations.

Require government permit issuing entities to reach permit decisions within 60 days for housing construction and 150 days for other activities, reducing relevant government employee salaries 0.1 percent for each day of delay past 150.

Repeal all or parts of Comstock laws, not involving child exploitation.

Prohibit lawsuits based on anti-meritarian disparate impact assertions.

Prohibit states and local governments from requiring safety inspections more than once every two years and emissions inspections more than once every four years of under 16-year-old gasoline powered motor vehicles.

Pass the Sensitive Technologies Supply Chain Risk Management Act of 2022.

Require losing lawsuit defendants to pay only their proportion of fault, not the proportion of dead, insolvent or otherwise unobtainable defendants.

Ban for-profit door-to-door soliciting, except by neighbors owning or renting properties within 400 yards.

Ban for-donation door-to-door soliciting.

Ban telemarketing, except when a pre-existing financial relationship exists or prior in person meeting occurred.

Require all internet browsers to have easy-to-use, user controllable site blocking features.

Double the value added tax on new appliances and other household goods that connect to the internet.

Pass the Junk Fee Prevention Act.

Prohibit states and local governments from passing laws shielding businesses,  foreign entities, and non-profit entities from lawsuits.

Prohibit government regulations requiring backup cameras, adaptive cruise control, automatic emergency braking, automatic emergency calling, and electronic stability control in motor vehicles.

Ban differing taxes on properties based on length of time owned.

Pass these air travel reforms.

Ban public-private partnerships using government funds, except with manufacturers having all their blue collar employees in the United States and paying all their employees at least $15 per hour.

Pass the Right to Equitable and Professional Auto Industry Repair Act.

Prohibit employers and publicly funded schools from pressuring individuals to display partisan political insignia.

Amend the National Labor Relations Act  to include the well-reasoned claims of domestic laborers, agricultural laborers, and independent contractors.

Repeal the misnamed Civil Rights Act of 1991.

Prohibit government entities from blocking private construction projects  having prior legal approval, except when new evidence beyond a reasonable doubt arises that such projects will cause at least three times as many harms as benefits.

Prohibit government entities from paying business entities to produce fewer goods and services.

Pass the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act.

In the event that reforms similar to this website are not enacted, peacefully divide the United States into dozens of smaller countries, including countries where ethical reasoning prevails, rather than selfish, wishful, repetitive, group-think, self-satisfied, confirmation biased litmus test demagoguery.

J.T. Fournier, last updated December 6, 2024

Education Recommendations

Provide Federal matching funds for summer school and after school programs in typing, statistics, English style, English grammar, informal logic, home economics, strength training, interval training, vocational education, consequentialist ethics, and rule consequentialist ethics.

Require full year public school students to attend a mean of at least 1150 hours in grades one through six, except during natural disasters or other emergencies.

Create a $1.90 per semester hour federal self-study university, including grad school. Provide all study materials online for free, including documentary-style lectures, along with e-reader file types of textbooks and required readings. Require students to take in person tests, requiring state photo ID or federal photo ID proof of self before taking tests. Ban the university from charging students for services beyond tuition, transcripts, and graduation services. Ban the university from having intercollegiate sports. Demand the university take steps to ensure at least 45 percent of its graduates perform at least at the fortieth percentile on non-university professional exams. Implement an $88,000 maximum salary at the university for all individuals. Ban all professors from assigning any text costing the anyone more than $40. Maintain at least a 39 to one student to faculty ratio and 32 to one faculty to administrator ratio. Provide few humanities and social science classes, except logic and long-term consequentialist and rule consequentialist ethics. 

Create hundreds of subject area tests similar to CLEP tests, except for laboratory classes, requiring baccalaureate granting publicly funded schools to give college credits to test takers scoring above the medians of students who have passed the courses and taken the subject tests within 30 days after finishing the courses. Require taking of CLEP and CLEP-like tests at test centers.

Eliminate government funded bilingual education programs.

Ban administrator teacher evaluations based on student evaluations and test score results.

Require would be education majors to spend 280 clock hours substitute teaching at public schools having Hispanic or African-American majorities before their junior post-secondary year. Ban state rules requiring a specific number of college hours before substitute teaching.

Create a valid in every state federal teacher certification system, having an application fee of not more than $14.

Prohibit all schools receiving public funds, including tax entitlements, from requiring students to read from or listen to or recite from any religious text.

Eliminate government payments to the so-called Teach for America and other parasitic middlemen.

Prohibit government funding for for-profit schools. Prohibit government funding for any primary or secondary educational entity paying any non-physician more than twice the local median income per year. Prohibit government funding for religious schools.

Prohibit media company mergers and acquisitions exceeding $800,000.

Eliminate Hope Scholarships. (Hope scholarships encourage price gouging by colleges. They are unjust to those who do not go to college. College grads earn more over their lifetimes. They encourage people to attend college who would otherwise be doing better things with their lives. Many college degrees create no overall ethical benefits.)

Ban school specific lawsuits against teachers, K-12 schools, and school districts, except when assaults or physical injuries occur.

Require national end of course exams in all public school courses. Require that national exams be 15 percent of final grades. Test public school students in math and reading in the first, fourth, and eighth grades. Publish statistical reports of the performance of all schools.

Ban universities from requiring more than 120 semester hours or trimester equivalent for bachelor's degree programs.

Remove LCD and other glowing screens from public primary and secondary classrooms, except in computer and vocational classrooms.

During unplanned school closures, emphasize book, audio, and paper assignments much more than screen lessons.

Create advanced placement courses for songwriting, human genetics, public health, and copy editing, along with human anatomy and physiology. 

Pay students $500 in federal funds for each math, science, songwriting, and copy editing AP course they earn both a B or higher course end grade for and four or higher AP test score for, except social science courses. 

Permit homeschooled students to take AP tests. 

Require all publicly funded post-secondary schools to give at least four semester credits or trimester equivalent to students for each AP test they earn a four or five on.

Ban post-secondary schools from paying retirement benefits to current and former non-medical administrators and non-medical tenured professors as a bit of justice for their massive frauds against students and societies. Apply their pension funds to college loan debts of underemployed graduates.

Require publicly funded post-secondary schools to accept all earned credits from a transferring student or not admit the transferring student.

Provide federal funding for further research on:

1. Know Your Body health ed programs at public primary schools but removing the self-esteem building parts of the programs.
2. Life Skills Training or Project ALERT or both.
3. Prenatal and Infancy Nurse Home Visitation Programs.
4. GEARUP.

Ban government funded primary and secondary schools from having foreign language requirements. 

Prohibit post-secondary schools from having foreign language requirements for non-foreign language and non-international relations students.

Prohibit the Department of Defense from partnering with for-profit feature films and television.

Prohibit schools from charging mandatory student activities fees and similar fees.

Open non-medical licensing and licensing exams to individuals completing self-study courses.

Ban any publicly funded schooling institution from purchasing for students any textbook costing more than $40. Prohibit any publicly funded schooling institution from requiring the purchase by students of any textbook costing more than $40.

Pass the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2009.

Require secondary schools and public vocational schools to teach marketable, in demand skills to non-college track students.

Eliminate government funding for secondary and post-secondary schools failing to grade solely on merit.

Require all publicly funded logic and ethics classes to teach these important principles of ethics:

1. Pursue alternatives having sufficiently beneficial overall results or pursue least harmful alternatives in Hobson's choices, except in rare cases when combinations of rules and results outweigh only results.
2. Make sufficient open-minded searches for good points.
3. Weigh accurately the good points from all relevant sides against each other, regardless of irrelevant social and other pressures to reflexively reject some sides and give extra weight to preferred sides. Use something similar to the direct rating method for comparing good points from various sides.
4. Treat fallacies as worthless to argument weight, not as strikes against an argument.
5. Keep looking for more important problems.
6. Treat ethical behavior as more important than all other traits combined.

Create an $9,900 annual school year voucher for parents homeschooling children from their sixth birthday until their fourteenth, including schooling done in the homes of friends and other community members, provided such children score in the top half of their age groups on required year end standardized academic tests, excluding students having down syndrome, closed head injuries, and other large, easily identifiable cognitive deficits from such tests. Prorate the voucher for children spending less than the full school year being homeschooled. Create a $3,800 per year homeschool voucher from the day after their fourteenth birthday to their seventeenth birthday.

Prohibit any public post-secondary school from naming any object in honor of their athletes or administrators they employed in the past 50 years.

Implement a 99 percent annual wealth tax on non-vocational school endowments. Send the money to food banks, homeless shelters, pathogen fighting organizations, and individuals with hourly wages below 13 dollars per hour.

Prohibit secondary and post-secondary education to prisoners, except vocational education.

Prohibit publicly funded schools from funding political groups.

Require public secondary schools to provide healthy students with one class hour each year of lower body strength training and interval training on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, upper body training and health education on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with upper body homework on Saturdays. Include at least three class hours of epidemiology per year with the health lessons.

Require the following courses for public high school graduation, in addition to the above health and physical education classes, beginning four years from now: half year each of grammar, biology, statistics, anti-corruption, anti-oligarchy, and home economics, plus one year each of informal logic and long-term consequentialist and rule consequentialist ethics. Require the statistics course to include at least two weeks of ethically risk neutral personal finance. Prioritize genetics in the biology class. Make other high school courses electives.

Switch medical school training to six years with no undergrad requirements, meaning most future physicians would enter medical school straight from high school. Likewise eliminate undergrad requirements for law, dental, veterinary, and physician assistant schooling. Eliminate most non-nursing class requirements to become registered nurses, making them three year programs. Also permit obtaining law credentials through testing, self-study, and apprenticeships.

Require employers providing employee tuition assistance to provide similar non-tuition remuneration to other employees.

Give primary and secondary teachers the right to temporarily or permanently remove students from their classrooms. Ban dumping removed students on other teachers without the approval of such teachers. Require such students to drop out or serve in school suspensions.

Require mechanical typewriters for typing classes.

Ban mainstreaming of emotionally impaired students.

Require students to be in the academic top 25 percent in middle school grades or at least one academic standardized test to attend publicly funded college track post-primary schools.

Permit individuals above the age of 11 to earn and receive General Equivalency Diplomas.

Require standardized test proctoring by individuals unaffiliated with students taking the tests. Require non-public school primary and secondary students to take IQ tests. Require non-public school primary and secondary students, attending non-public schools for at least the previous 180 school days, scoring at least 20 percentile points lower than their IQ percentile positions on year end academic tests to return to public schools the next school year, except when graduating, dropping out or taking medical absences.

Repeal and or defund the Common Core Initiative, Bilingual Education Act, Race to the Top Initiative, No Child Left Behind Act, Every Student Succeeds Act, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and Improving America's Schools Act of 1994.

Repeal the Higher Education Act of 1965, along with its amendments.

Eliminate public school kindergarten.

Permit individuals employed for more than 600 hours in the last 100 days to receive high school diplomas after completing tenth grade.

Require public schools to give academic letter or numerical grades for every student enrolled at least 60 days.

Ban each post-secondary school from continuing to offer a degree in a field when fewer than 70 percent of that school's working age graduates from that field find employment in that field.

Lower the age students may voluntarily drop out to 12. Require students dropping out before their eighteenth birthday to be employed at least 30 hours per week at least 44 weeks per year. Or perform community service or attend other schooling at least 30 hours per week at least 44 weeks per year.

Ban government entities from requiring master's or other advanced degrees for K-12 teachers and administrators.

Ban public funded primary and secondary schools from paying graduate degree having teachers more because they have graduate degrees.

Permit national teaching licenses to associate degree citizen applicants having no felony arrests and no history of being fired by schools, who score in the top 30 percent of the NTE, along with having at least 280 clock hours substitute teaching.

Require the number of faculty at public post-secondary schools to out number the number of administrators paid more than the lowest paid faculty member by at least 38 to one, except in medical fields.

Prohibit public post-secondary schools from funding the political and or entertainment activities of students and administrators.

Ban individuals older than their 19th birthdays from starting a semester at public primary and secondary schools.

End government spending on foreign media.

Ban schools from accepting financial donations from foreign and multinational entities.

Prohibit employees of publicly owned post-secondary schools from receiving remuneration for advertising appearances.

Require all businesses moving employment outside the United States to pay at least 62 percent of costs for all local, state, and Federal trade adjustment assistance programs.

Eliminate government funding for causal attempt social science research that fails to make well-reasoned efforts to control for or tease out genetic factors where relevant.

Ban states and local governments from reducing mean class sizes below 21 students per classroom.

Ban schools from prohibiting students in the top seven percent in grades and or standardized test scores from choosing to skip grades.

Eliminate Federal consent decrees and disparate impact policies.

Prohibit political appointees and state governments from banning or minimizing suspensions and expulsions.

Prohibit post-secondary schools from charging more than 13 times the local median hourly wage per semester hour or trimester equivalent, seven times the local median hourly wage per semester hour for vocational schools and community colleges.

Prohibit for-profit post-secondary schools from accreditation by government funded entities.

Eliminate Public Service Loan Forgiveness for occupations other than primary and secondary school teaching, requiring at least 22 years employment in such teaching for forgiveness.

Prohibit publicly funded education entities from having political or religious loyalty requirements for students, including in applications, along with prohibiting giving weight to political or religious considerations in applications and graduations.

Require schools to counsel students having below the median grades in calculus I classes, along with ACT or SAT math test scores below the 94th percentile, to avoid majoring in math or engineering or physical sciences.

Prohibit corporations from purchasing, leasing or controlling housing on public post-secondary school properties.

Require public vocational and post-secondary schools to publish accurate data on employment prospects, median incomes, and employment rates of graduates in their fields of study.

Require all public and private post-secondary alternative medicine schooling entities to fire all employees and contractors, then shut down. Ban government funding for indigenous knowledge education.

Require post-secondary schools to website list their on campus arrests, the types of crimes alleged, and whether hazing occurred.

Train primary and secondary education teachers through no cost student teaching, substitute teaching, and an online teaching methods boot camp.

Prohibit publicly funded schools from giving honorary degrees.

Prohibit government entities from requiring post-secondary education credentials for daycare employees, except first aid and relevant child care courses for daycare employees not receiving such training in secondary schools.

Repeal the Disabilities Education Act.

Prohibit states from mandating preschool through grade 12 educational curricula.

Prohibit paying government funds to students and or their families for school attendance and or academic performance, except for adequate advanced placement grades and or test performance.

Prohibit student, government, and post-secondary entities from paying for post-secondary accreditation agencies, except in science, medical, engineering, and vocational fields.

Ban schools and government entities from funding lobbyists. 

Prohibit individual publicly funded elementary and secondary schools from paying their highest paid full-time teachers more than eight percent more than their lowest paid full-time teachers, excluding pay for extracurricular, summer school, driver education, and after school activities

Require new college and vocational students to serve at least an 80-hour internship in the field they plan to study before they start required classes within that major.

Prohibit individual publicly funded school districts from paying administrators greater than 45 percent more than the median salaries of their full time teachers.

Create rights for dissenting students and or parents to receive education vouchers for private schools or homeschooling when teachers, politicians, and or administrators at their nearest public K through 12 schools have political rules, rewards, punishments or litmus tests for students.

Require K-16 schools to pay for medical treatments resulting from student injuries acquired during school sponsored sports activities.

Require public school districts to reduce their percentages of administrators, adjusted for changes in student populations, to levels they had in 1990 or below.

Prohibit publicly funded schools from selling and or distributing processed meats and foods containing more than 14 percent of their calories from sugars.

Grant majority parental and guardian vote the right to break off their childrens' schools from existing school districts.

Ban state governments from making non-financial education laws, except when those laws have been approved by majorities of statewide voters.

Prohibit existing publicly funded post-secondary schools from constructing new buildings and stadiums, except to replace uninhabitable buildings and stadiums when the long-term costs of repairing uninhabitable buildings are greater than the long-term costs of new buildings. Ban additions to existing publicly funded post-secondary school buildings, except when new scientific and technical equipment require additions.

Prohibit public schooling entities from replacing habitable schools for fallacious rhetoric about improving academic achievement.

Ban government entities from race, ethnicity, and religion norming grades, the same for licensing, certifications, and civil service testing. Prohibit accrediting entities from accrediting schools using these practices.

Prohibit publicly funded schools from having lower admissions standards for donors, athletes, legacy individuals,  school employees, and relatives of school employees. Define public funding to include government funded student grants, loans, and scholarships.

Require each post-secondary school to offer each required class for each of its degree programs at least once per year.

Prohibit any post-secondary school from having a class size limit on any class having more students wanting to take the class than the class size limit.

Ban publicly funded secondary schools from teaching non-vocational technology courses.

Ban post-secondary schools from requiring humanities, social science, and natural science courses for students not majoring in the humanities, social sciences or natural sciences, except courses in informal logic, consequentialist ethics, and rule consequentialist ethics.

Require public universities to stop offering degrees in fields having fewer than a mean of 13 students in those fields' 300 and 400 level classes, except when receiving waivers for well-reasoned trade or national security reasons.

Ban employers from charging employees and 1099 recipients for training.

Require every college student, who has not passed informal logic,  consequentialist, and or rule consequentialist ethics courses in high school, to pass school or self-study courses of same before college graduation.

Ban publicly funded education entities from giving weight to student interviews for admissions.

Create a moratorium on viral genetics classes.

Implement a $16,220 per student, per class negative externalities tax on post-primary law, business, dietitian, phlebotomy, nutritionist, humanities, acupuncture, landscaping, cosmetology, social science, fashion design, insurance field, medical management, medical administration, alternative medicine, and so-called artificial intelligence classes at publicly funded schools, except music, logic, grammar, accounting, English style, anti-dysgenics, long-term consequentialist ethics, and rule consequentialist ethics, and risk neutral finance classes. Ban financial aid to students taking those subjects. Ban classes on how to influence political decision making with artificial intelligence at publicly funded schools.

Ban post-secondary schools from awarding degrees in general studies, multidisciplinary studies, and similar fields.

Require physical education teachers to pass an injury prevention course or written injury prevention test, focused on the prevention of soft tissue and hard tissue injuries during weightlifting and interval training.

Prohibit any post-secondary teacher from knowingly engaging in sexual activity with any student attending any school the teacher taught at in the past 180 days, except with a spouse.

Ban from school property any older than their 12th birthday individual communicating a felony or misdemeanor threat to school workers or volunteers.

Ban from school property any older than their 12th birthday individual assaulting another individual on school property or in school vehicles.

Prohibit school funding based on grades, pass rates, retention rates, and or graduation rates.

Repeal the FUTURE Act.

Prohibit post-secondary schools from using student and taxpayer funds to pay athletic department lawsuit costs.

Ban college student-athletes from receiving public funds at any post-secondary school where athletic department employees receive salaries higher than the median salary of local full time, full year workers.

Fund studies to compare the benefits and harms of many types of apprenticeship programs.

Ban school districts from merging, except to increase available AP and vocational classes.

Ban three-cueing reading programs at public schools.

Ban judges, administrators, and or elected officials from requiring ethnic, racial, and or religious history education at publicly funded schools.

Defund Upward Bound, Even Start Family Literacy Program, and 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

Ban publicly funded sex education classes from teaching topics other than chastity, anatomy, physiology, 

birth control, sexual health, assault avoidance, assault reporting, reproductive health, dysgenics prevention, plus the colossal benefits of eugenics and marriage to the ethical universe, especially to parents and children themselves.

Eliminate government funded programs to increase high-speed internet access. High-speed internet increases hedonism and other harmful activities.

Create a 185 percent of tuition costs  federal student loan program for US citizens in critical shortage fields at post-secondary schools having semester hour costs below the national median, excluding so-called social sciences and the humanities.

Prohibit publicly funded medical schools from accepting first-year students older than their 29th birthday on the first day of classes, except students under age 41 having MCAT scores among the top five percent of all MCAT takers.

Fund a universal, public school provided lunch program, having no profit taking by the financial industry. Prohibit cafeteria workers from throwing away leftover unspoiled foods. Require donation of leftover unspoiled foods to students or charities. Prohibit serving celery and processed meats by schools.

Prohibit schools from serving foods containing more than 13 percent of their calories from sugars.

Prohibit publicly funded entities from paying more than $200 to guest speakers per speech.

Prohibit secondary schools from requiring students to take more than one science class, except for students planning to major in STEM and or medical fields. 

Prohibit high schools from requiring students to take more than one math class, except for students planning to major in STEM and or medical fields.

Prohibit high schools and post-secondary schools from requiring students to take English classes beyond grammar, vocabulary, and English style, except for students majoring in or planning to major in the humanities.

Prohibit high schools and post-secondary schools from requiring students to take more than one social studies or social science class, except for students majoring in or planning to major in the humanities and or social sciences.

Prohibit publicly funded schools from giving more than five percent A grades, ten percent A- grades, 15 percent B+ grades, 15 percent B grades, and 15 percent B- minus grades.

JT Fournier, last updated December 15, 2024

Fiscal and Other Policy Suggestions

Eliminate the trillions in tax expenditures (corporate welfare, home mortgage deductions, farm subsidies, etc.) listed within Tax Expenditures the Hidden Entitlements by Citizens for Tax Justice and elsewhere, except those recommended herein. Inflation adjust all those herein. Eliminate 15.3 percent payroll taxes. Pay for Social Security and health care with taxes on negative externalities, not beneficial actions.

Create at least a 15 percent value added tax on goods sold or brought in the US, except items recommended on this site, fairly sending most proceeds to states and local governments willing to eliminate sales taxes, income taxes, and the first $130,000 in property tax assessments on lived in housing unit containing properties, along with a similar VAT on software, cable television, and satellite television.

Create a 1.2 percent annual federal property tax on lands owned by charities not spending at least 80 percent of their receipts on food security, housing security, family planning or primary health care.

Create a 1.1 percent annual, marginal national property tax on housing having a market value above $540,000.

Require accurate estimations of fiscal bills' effects on government finances before Congress votes on them.

Require stimulus funds to prioritize food banks, along with repairs and preventative maintenance for roads, signs, bridges, walkways, bike trails, waterways, and public restrooms.

Require political appointees, plus judges, governors, legislators, and presidents, to be audited by the IRS within six months of being appointed or elected. Audit them thereafter at least once every three years.

Prohibit the federal government from bailing out specific state and local governments, except as part of aid available to all state or local governments. Or as part of natural disaster relief.

Prohibit local governments from charging flat rate income taxes and other regressive income taxes.

Implement the anti-corruption policies here.

Reduce qualified immunity privileges.

Provide during recessions and depressions, federal funds to state and local governments to restore their pre-recession level of spending, provided the state and local governments have not cut taxes during the recessions or depressions.

Implement most GAO prescriptions to reduce "fragmentation, overlap, and duplication" in government.

Eliminate SNAP and replace it with a near universal $150 monthly deposit into a US Postal Bank or Central Bank savings account for non-incarcerated citizens, giving withdrawal and spending discretion to legal guardians for those with legal guardians.

Require premiums to cover the entire cost of federal crop insurance.

Improve federal spending reporting with these recommendations.

Permit government contract officers to require cost data on contractor items costing more than $15.

Provide automatic increases in funding for the Government Accounting Office and Congressional Research Service at least equal to inflation, plus increases in population.

Ban use of non-voice only cell phones by individuals under 18, except during emergencies, in personal domiciles or by individuals employed at least 20 hours per week.

Require individuals to be 18-years-old and consenting before receiving a circumcision.

Permit contracts for interpersonal sperm donation.

Remove portraits of humans from United States currency.

Fire or demote most federal employees above the GS-12 level, except beneficial STEMsters, technicians, and medical employees. Replace them with hires based on ethical merit, especially economic efficiency, anti-corruption practices, and anti-CRT policies. Permit fired employees to reapply for jobs.

Ban government entities from hiring motivational speakers, from having taxpayer paid motivational travel, from having team building seminars and trips. Ban government funded trips to conferences, except conferences exchanging classified information.

Enact a 60 percent negative externalities tax on the sale of gift cards, along with purchases to increase gift card balances.

Pass the Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act, Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, Stop COVID Act of 2020, and Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Ban Federal elected officials from spending more than 120 minutes per year with individuals having net assets greater than $5.5 million or incomes greater than $600,000 per year, excluding foreign leaders.

Hire 550 more immigration judges, 2,000 more ICE attorneys, 25,000 additional ICE officers, and 970 more Federal prosecutors, including to prosecute white collar crimes.  Investigate sanctuary city leaders for obstruction of justice. Begin RICO investigations of BLM and Antifa. End asylum.

Prohibit owners of search engines and social media platforms from selling physical goods and merging with companies selling physical goods.

Eliminate any federal tax advantages to having residency in any state or territory.

Ban government funding for acupuncture, reiki, and reflexology.

Eliminate the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Require state and local governments to permit ICE employees to visit and apprehend illegal invaders on any state and local government properties.

Devolve beneficial DHS activities to other Federal entities.

Require corporations to pay wages when their subcontractors engage in wage theft and file for bankruptcy.

Repeal the CARES Act.

Require new laptops and cell phones to have color inversion and blue light filtering settings.

Replace section 230 of the Communications Decency Act with a law that grants section 230 protections to only full freedom of political speech platforms and politically moderated nonprofit platforms having no one earning more than $25 per hour.

Require businesses to pay negative externalities taxes on harms created at rates at least equal to the economic equivalent of the harms created.

Ban corporations and government employers from firing anyone for reasons unrelated to job competence or felony arrest or economic efficiency or compliance with federal laws.

Pass the Neutralizing Unfair Chinese Export Subsidies Act of 2020, Preventing Foreign CENSORSHIP in America Act, National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Update Act, Offshore Accountability Act of 2020, School Food Recovery Act of 2020, Double Dip Elimination Act, STOP Straw Purchases Act, Stockpiling for America’s Future Endeavors (SAFE) Act, Stockpile Inventory Modernization (SIM) Act of 2020, Stop Wall Street Looting Act, and Kate's Law.

Ban religious inspections and certifications of foods distributed by government entities or sold by corporations.

Require employers to pay a bonus of $14 plus time and a half for same employee shifts beginning less than nine hours after previous shifts.

Require employers to pay time and a half for shifts scheduled with less than 24 hours notice.

Require malicious destroyers of communal property to pay at least half the value of items destroyed to victims.

Break off trade and diplomatic relations with any nation or land that will not take deportees back.

Apply 15 percent value added taxes for cosmetic medical procedures to breasts, gonads, buttocks, and lengthening legs, except burn and cancer related procedures.

Ban lower income tax rates for intangible income than other forms of income. Equally tax equal incomes despite the sources, except some unethical and or criminal sources of income.

Make discharges of firearms illegal on government lands within 500 yards of human occupied buildings, except in justifiable self-defense.

Create a death penalty mandatory minimum for knowingly selling more than $1,000 in fraudulent medications.

Ban proprietary trading, except proprietary trading proven in court beyond a reasonable doubt to serve overall public benefit.

Prohibit Walton grantor retained annuity trusts and similar tax avoidance and tax evasion schemes. Tax all income above half the median household income per grantor of all financial trusts having US entities or former US entities as grantors or beneficiaries at least at 49 percent. 

Create 58 month mandatory minimum sentences for trustees, lawyers, and accountants knowingly aiding tax evasion.

Prohibit tax expenditures for government fines paid.

Require refunding of positive balances greater than 85 cents upon purchaser cancellation of services, charging the inflation rate plus 10.5 percent annual interest to service providers failing to refund positive balances within 30 days after cancellation.

Repeal the United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act

Ban Amish and Muslims from adopting non-Amish and non-Muslim children.

Require everyone in drug industries to report drug-related crimes they observe.

Prohibit revoked license drug industry entities from reapplying for the same or similar licenses for 900 days.

Enact the HYPE Act.

Ban individuals convicted of felonies or financial crimes exceeding $10,000 from means-tested programs, government contracting, and government employment for life.

Ban the use of puberty blockers on individuals under the age of 18.

Devolve the naming of post offices and other Federal objects to Federal appointees. Encourage descriptive names for congressional bills. Ban Congressional bills from being named after individuals. Prohibit Congressional websites from referring to new bills with acronyms. Require Congressional website summaries of bills and laws to contain at least 100 non-circular words clearly and specifically describing the bills or laws, except for bills or laws under 100 words. Eliminate Congressional gold medals.

Repeal the medical device excise tax. Repeal federal and state taxes on over-the-counter, FDA approved medications, except aspirin and acetaminophen.

Eliminate the Small Business Innovation Research program. Defund the Minority Business Development Agency.

Repeal the authorizations for use of force against Iraq.

Repeal the renewable (ethanol) fuel standard.

Create a Federal at cost human egg bank, with eggs from criminal conviction, psychiatric medication, illegal drug free females having IQs above 120.

Repeal the Forever GI Bill.

Pass the Medical Supply Chain Security Act, Clean Air Sharp Minds Act, Foreign Robocall Elimination Act.

Ban convicted, incarcerated individuals from receiving government salaries and pensions, except funds adequate for child support payments. Return back salaries and pensions if convictions are overturned.

Require government agencies to give relevant inspectors general important requested information, keeping other entities from blocking inspector general access to such information.

Lower the threshold for Federal Cost Accounting Standards from $7.5 million to $1.4 million.

Prohibit government entities from giving items to middlemen for resale.

Require legislators, ex-presidents and ex-vice presidents to pay for their own security outside the United States.

Pass the Adding Epidemic Diseases to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act, Corporate Transparency Act, ILLICIT CASH Act, TRAP Act, Foreign Extortion Prevention Act, Wall Street Banker Accountability for Misconduct Act of 2019, Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2019, and End Employer Collusion Act.

Enact a marginal excess profits tax if other methods prove inadequate to roll back the catastrophes of monopolies, oligopolies, and oligarchism.

Remove fish from WIC, except tilapia.

Ban the prescribing of opiates for osteoarthritis and other chronic joint or connective tissue injuries.

Require the firing or resignation of all elected officials and political appointees older than their 69th birthdays, except if they pass annual civil service exams and score at least 124 on annual IQ tests.

Defund the United States Agency for Global Media.

Create a 70 percent value added tax on gift cards.

Create a 40 percent negative externalities tax on admission prices at non-human animal racing activities.

Auction non-emergency, non-military government storage items intended for current use, but not being used, because the relevant government agencies are too inept or corrupt to properly use them.

Ban disparate impact policies.

Require the firing of any government employee who negligently or willfully loses or destroys government assets worth more than $2900, unless the employee pays for those assets.

Prohibit government grants, loans, and or tax expenditures to service industry businesses, including restaurants, nightclubs, software companies, manufacturing businesses owned by financial firms.

Prohibit government loans, grants, and or tax expenditures to businesses in industries having herfindahl indexes greater than 0.15, except for well-reasoned military defense purposes. Giving government loans, grants, and or tax expenditures to businesses for ethnic, racial, or religious diversity purposes is poorly well-reasoned, as is thinking up a few pro reasons while avoiding or dismissing stronger counterarguments.

Prohibit government down payment support grants.

Ban government funding for non-medical research within non-NATO nations, except by the Department of Defense, US intelligence entities, and the US State Department. Prohibit NIH from funding and or conducting any research outside US borders.

Repeal the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act.

Eliminate agricultural, healthcare, and family planning US export sanctions against not at war nations but permitting sanctions against specifically named individuals.

Eliminate earmarks.

Pass legislation expediting the firing of bad government employees.

Require cost-benefit government contracts, including quality. Require all government contracts to name the businesses, business owners, and senior executives receiving the contracts, including subcontractors.

Require well-reasoned evidence that contractors perform better and cheaper than government employees before issuing government contracts. Continue requiring that contractors perform better and cheaper.

Increase funding for fraud inspections, investigations, and prosecutions until the costs of inspections, investigations, and prosecutions equals at least 55 percent of funds saved and recovered.

Ban all government entities from using government funds for political activism.

Ban federal entities from suing state or local governments or individuals for their properly enforcing federal laws.

Ban government entities from suing, fining or seizing the assets of private entities over accusations of ethnic, racial or religious discrimination.

Adopt some tax policies of the Faroe Islands, where beneficial.

Ban those who ever owed more than $55,000 in back taxes from being hired by government entities, except for military and medical fields.

Roosevelt Institute: ban remuneration to politicians and government employees via book deals, director’s payments, and speaking contracts.

Set all capitals gains tax rates at least equal to federal income tax rates. Reinstate the capital gains tax on real estate. Make tax rates for almost all sources of income equal to federal personal income tax rates.

Implement some tax reforms similar to those proposed by Michael Graetz in 100 Million Unnecessary Returns, but make the reforms far more progressive.

Make some of these cuts.

Require the federal government and income taxing states to provide competent, free tax filing software and websites.

Eliminate NASA and replace it with a much smaller agency having no space shuttles and other joy riders in the sky.

Prohibit government entities from paying for international sporting events and the training for them.

Prohibit government funding of underfunded private pensions. Eliminate the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation.

Ban states and local governments from exempting non-profit entities from property taxes and other taxes.

Require all government managers to take a yearly oath to base hiring and promoting decisions on merit.

Eliminate the following: The Small Business Administration, federally funded flood insurance, Head Start, franking by legislators, The Maritime Administration, The Federal Railroad Administration, The Appalachian Regional Commission, The Farm Credit Administration, The Federal Transit Administration, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, The Mining Act of 1872, The Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Farmers Home Administration, and federal drug treatment programs.

Ban non-governmental entities from having .edu and .gov websites.

Defund Federal particle collider activities.

Repeal the misnamed Build Back Better Act.

C. Eugene Steuerle: the IRS "should describe how tax subsidies are distributed by taxpayer income and geographical location. It should report on non-compliance or on gaps and its ability to enforce the law in each program."

Ban the for profit prescribing of opiate painkillers to non-terminal or non hospitalized individuals for more than 14 days, including synthetic opiates.

Ban government entities from paying for so-called gender reassignment surgeries and medications. Ban giving such reassignment surgeries and medications to individuals under the age of 18 and adults under court ordered mental health care.

Ban government entities from treating individuals older than 17 as juveniles.

Ban government funding to construct new brutalist and gehryist buildings. Ban government funding to construct new buildings failing to fit the architecture of their neighborhoods.

Eliminate all water, electrical, and land subsidies. Charge a minimum of 18 percent royalty fees on oil, gas, minerals, and other assets taken from public lands or waters. Rent asset containing federal lands at market rates.

Eliminate the Economic Development Administration, Interstate Commerce Commission, U.S. Information Service, and Federal Advisory Commissions.

Sell federal aircraft, except military and law enforcement aircraft.

Keep the Social Security cost of living allowance.

Per Robert Reich, "eliminate the 'stepped-up-basis' on death rule."

Ban religious exemptions to healthcare laws.

Ban foreign and multinational entities from donating to domestic political entities. Ban foreign and multinational entities from investing in domestic political entities.

Prohibit Federal entities from buying private insurance, except motor vehicle insurance. The Federal government can afford to pay for damages without involving parasitic insurance companies.

Eliminate the class size reduction program and federal funding for dislocated workers.

Create a 100 percent negative externalities gross receipts tax on advertising goods and services, except advertising by partnerships and sole proprietorships having book values under 50 million dollars, along with advertising by egg banks and sperm banks.

Create a 45 percent cable television services negative externalities tax.

Ban any group or corporation receiving government funds, including tax expenditures, from contributing to political campaigns, political parties, and lobbying activities.

Ban any entity receiving government funds, including tax expenditures, from giving gifts to current and former government officials.

Ban published political advocacy by retired military officers. Cut the military pensions of retired military officers creating published political advocacy by half.

Raise the federal excise tax on alcoholic beverages to 39 cents per ounce of ethanol. Raise at least $1.8 billion per year taxing water polluters.

Eliminate all federal charitable deductions, transfers, and subsidies except those recommended herein. (Donations to the National Committee for Chicken Nugget Artwork should not get a tax break.)

Dean Baker: Give each American adult a $100 annual artistic freedom voucher, transferable to intellectual property creators putting their intellectual property works in the public domain.

Require 15 hours of weekly charitable service when receiving federal unemployment insurance.

Implement the John Kerry proposals to tax US corporate untaxed overseas earnings.

Aaron, Gale, and Sly with idea from Auerbach and Jorgenson: "Permit businesses to deduct the present value of all depreciation deductions for an asset in the year of purchase."

Repeal the law requiring the sale of the entire US helium reserve by 2015. Enact a 200 percent VAT on the sale of helium.

Use federal highway spending for  repairs, replacements, preventative maintenance, along with new roundabouts.

Increase IRS audit funding:
1. Until the mean cost of each additional audit is half the mean revenue received.
2. To increase the audit rate of those earning over five times the median annual family income from one percent to at least 12 percent.

Eliminate SSI for non-citizens and non-native born citizens who have worked in the US fewer than 10 years.

Joanna LeFebvre: make state income tax filing easier by having states partner with the Federal Direct File income tax program.

Remove all intellectual property rights held by anyone who renounces their United States citizenship primarily for tax purposes and or avoidance of debt payments. Prohibit them from transferring property rights to other individuals or organizations. Prohibit anyone who renounces his or her US citizenship primarily for tax purposes from reentering the US. Create a 96 percent wealth exit tax on those who renounce their citizenship primarily for tax purposes. Make anyone who renounces their citizenship primarily for tax purposes liable for federal taxes for 65 years after leaving. Create an agency to track, hunt, and extradite individuals who renounce their citizenship for tax purposes, who go into hiding. If they cannot be extradited, capture them. Assume anyone with at least $200,000 in annual income who renounces their citizenship is doing it to avoid or evade taxes.

Require phone calls to be cryptographically signed to prevent spoofing.

Prohibit the importation of gun, sonar, radar, ammo, explosive, night vision, and thermal imaging products manufactured in non-NATO nations, except raw materials and spare parts for preexisting units, lifting the prohibition during periods of wars declared by Congress.

Require Internet transactions to pay the same state, local, and federal sales taxes as other transactions.

Ban individuals born outside the United States from being employed by the federal government for jobs within the United States paying more than the median household income, except in medical fields.

Ban internet hosts and registrars from banning websites for political reasons. Nationalize violators.

Prohibit government-funded food charities from purchasing foods having more than 14 percent of their calories from sugars.

Defund the Department of Agriculture. 

Devolve overall beneficial tasks from defunded government entities to other entities. 

Implement multi-year Pentagon budgeting.

Use inflation-indexed bonds for the national debt, lowering interest rates.

Eliminate all interest subsidies.

Sell the Power Marketing Administration.

Create federalized unemployment insurance and disability insurance plans with disability payments based on a percentage disability basis. 

Require government entities to make disability determinations within 60 days of disability applications and appeals.

Per the Cato Institute: Eliminate the Agricultural Adjustment Act (food import quotas and restrictions), the Meat Import Act of 1979, presidential food-import proclamations, the Agricultural Act of 1958, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, U.S. funding for the World Bank, The U.S. Information agency, The School of the Americas, The Selective Service System, the Asia Foundation, the Delaney Clause, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Devolve any of their beneficial activities to other government entities.

Require regulatory laws to meet ethical cost-benefit standards.

Prohibit the use of contractors and subcontractors by intelligence agencies, except for physical goods and construction projects. 

Eliminate NASA's crewed space programs. Prohibit any NASA contractor creating cost overruns above 14 million dollars from future government contracts.

Ban foreign and multinational social media corporations from having US citizen users. Ban US social media corporations from having foreign users.

Ban corporations from donating to lobbying and political entities.

Repeal the Rural Electrification Act and the Community Reinvestment Act.

Require all data and conclusions from all non-classified, publicly funded research to be published and publicly available for free on the internet.

Eliminate the Market Access Program.

Create an additional three percent marginal income tax on individuals, having annual incomes above $40,000, who received Federal college loan forgiveness, up to a lifetime total of the amount forgiven.

Repeal the misnamed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Ban new loans to individuals, except business loans, home mortgage loans under $650,000, and motor vehicle loans under $42,000. Prohibit loans exceeding $20,000 to any majority owner of a corporation, who previously had been the majority owner of a corporation that filed for bankruptcy, including loans to corporations such an individual currently has majority ownership in.

Eliminate the Minority Business Development Agency and all other Commerce Department business development agencies.

Eliminate housing laws and guidelines mislabeled as fair housing.

Require premiums to cover the costs of all government provided insurance. Require premiums to be proportional to individual purchasers' risks and expected values.

Ban government entities from hiring business, humanities, and social science majors for human resources positions. 

Repeal the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. 

Ban advertising for internal combustion motor vehicles getting fewer than 21 highway miles per gallon, except on the websites of motor vehicle manufacturers and sellers.

Eliminate: Highway Demonstration Projects, The Maritime Administration, Cargo Preference Programs, Wastewater Treatment Subsidies, The Economic Support Fund, The Corporation for National and Community Service, ACTION, The Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, National Flood Insurance, The Service Contract Act, Free mailings by congresspersons, congressional non-salary benefits and perks, Economic Development Assistance, The International Trade Administration, The National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Advanced Technology Program within the Department of Commerce, substance abuse block grants, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Devolve any of their beneficial functions to other government entities.

Eliminate federal grant money to non-government entities.

Require motor vehicle related fines above $20 to be in proportion to violators' incomes.

Require all charitable trusts that do not use at least 98 percent of their funds on primary human services (food, housing, healthcare, clean air, clean drinking water) to pay a tax equal to the top marginal federal income tax rate on all assets, contributions, and earnings. Remove all laws that allow trusts to evade civil judgments.

Remove debt ceiling requirements from Federal laws.

Ban private tax collection and the sale of tax debts to private entities.

Prohibit government entities from funding high-speed rail construction and operation.

Eliminate Department of Labor programs unrelated to research, reporting, and regulatory activities.

Break off trade and diplomatic relations with tax havens.

Federally fund controlled experiments with the Colorado Family Planning Initiative.

Inflation adjust tax brackets for bracket creep.

Raise the top marginal federal tax rate to 49 percent, so that high income individuals using totalitarian coercion, legalized bribery, and near total mass media control to shove the fallacies of avarice, militarism, and social communism down our throats can start paying for their beloved, poorly reasoned grandstanding--instead of making nonwealthy individuals pay almost all the costs via ruined jobs, lives, schools, cultures, neighborhoods, etc. The contradictions involved in making us sacrifice for their grandstanding while they enjoy cheap labor and flee the hells they create for others are despicable.

Raise the minimum driving age to 18, except for younger citizens able to prove they work more than 20 hours per week.

Ban any individual or entity convicted of antitrust or financial crimes exceeding one third of median per capita income from voting, owning any portion of media entities, being employed by media entities, being employed by government entities, being government contractors, donating to political entities, funding political advertising, being political contractors.

Require professional sports teams to give citizens ownership shares equal to the stadium construction costs citizens paid for plus interest. Require professional sports team owners to pay back all other tax expenditures received from local and state taxpayers plus inflation rate interest or give ownership shares to citizens equal to those sums plus interest.

Ban the importation of poultry and seafoods from other nations, including seafoods used for livestock feed.

Create a 40 percent negative externalities tax on ocean foods harvested domestically, except harmful invasive species and invasive subspecies.

Close US consulates outside NATO nations, Australia, and New Zealand. Close all non-NATO foreign consulates in all US states and territories.

Eliminate Limited Liability Partnerships.

Enact the Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act, Arrest Statistics Reporting Act of 2019, Insider Trading Prohibition Act, Moving Americans Privacy Protection Act, Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act of 2019, Whistleblower Protection Reform Act of 2019, Coordinating Oversight, Upgrading and Innovating Technology, and Examiner Reform Act of 2019, Corporate Transparency Act of 2019, PACT Act, Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2019, Puppy Protection Act, USPS Fairness Act, Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act, Fentanyl Sanctions Act, Weatherization Enhancement and Local Energy Efficiency Investment and Accountability Act, Ocean Acidification Innovation Act, Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act, and ZZZ's to A's Act.

Repeal the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 and Budget Control Act of 2011.

End Wednesday non-next day and non-two day USPS deliveries.

Eliminate no-bid contracts.

Ban law enforcement activities preventing ethically, democratically elected officials from casting their votes, whether cast from prison or a legislative building.

Implement some of these per Jang-Sup Shin.

Permit only underground new building construction on lands that had building destroying wildfires in the past 50 years.

Gradually shift government entities to the metric system.

Ban any gaming license to any entity. Prohibit the sale of equipment used most often for gaming. Require entities having gaming licenses to destroy their gaming equipment.

Create a Federal right to repair law.

Ban anyone renouncing US citizenship for tax purposes from owning and or managing any US entity. Ban them from owning US financial instruments.

Make it a crime for any government employee to give any taxpayer funded gift exceeding $14 to a first, second or third degree relative, same for spouses. Do likewise for any government employee friend, defining friend as anyone the government employee has spent more than 2.5 hours socializing with on non-governmental business.

Require employers to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave per every 22 hours worked.

Repeal the CHIPS and Science Act.

Repeal or rewrite legislation contradicting the prescriptions herein to eliminate the contradictions.

Remove liability from companies for their food donations, except in cases where food was deliberately poisoned by management or ownership.

Ban individuals convicted of sexual assault from seeking visitation or child support from their victims.

Eliminate government funding for private rehab facilities.

Permanently ban government contracts for or purchases from any corporation found to engage in price gouging.

Ban civil asset forfeiture without a criminal or civil court judgment.

Ban mandatory arbitration agreements for corporate employees, contractors, and customers.

Provide several billion dollars for research and development of vaccines for minor or rarer viruses.

Ban libel and slander lawsuits against ethically, democratically elected officials for acts done during their terms. Ban all other lawsuits against ethically, democratically elected officials while the officials are still serving their terms.

Require fertile, under age 65 male and under age 46 female SSI and SSDI recipients receiving benefits for genetic illnesses to be surgically sterilized to continue receiving benefits, except when the surgery would cause a high risk of death or serious injury.

Prohibit government contracting with businesses that do not have readily available ownership information.

Ban anyone renouncing their U.S. citizenship for tax purposes from engaging in financial transactions with US entities, except to pay fines, debts, and or child support.

Implement something similar to Lily Batchhelder's proposal to "replace the estate tax with an inheritance tax. The tax would apply to lifetime inheritances exceeding $2.3 million, and it would be paid by heirs instead of donors, at a rate equal to the heir’s marginal income tax rate plus 15 percentage points."

Ban showing corporate owned political TV shows on government owned TVs. Ban corporate advertising on government-owned properties. Ban cable television on government properties, except for well-reasoned law enforcement purposes.

Prohibit states and local governments from blocking entities building their own broadband, except when builders have violated pre-existing property or safety codes.

Enact a $0.07 excise tax per each gram of lead in lead containing products. Create excise taxes on other harm causing substances in proportion to the harm caused.

Remove Federal excise taxes on fishing, hunting, and camping goods not using lead, fossil fuels or other significantly harmful substances.

Eliminate any law, signing statement or executive order containing the concept of discrimination that uses poorly defined, contradictory or otherwise fallacious definitions of discrimination.

Prohibit advertising for products that contain more than 13 percent of their calories in sugars. Prohibit advertising for products containing more than 28 percent of their calories in refined wheat or processed meat.

Ban employee or customer contracts that prohibit writing reviews, except reviews containing classified information.

Make lie detector test results inadmissible in all courts.

Give legal home dwellers the right to use any level of force against individuals making both illegal entry into their homes combined with any additional crime.

Require corporations manufacturing added salt processed foods to use iodized salt, except in cases where the iodine will be lost before eating.

Require side guards on new trucks large enough to have cars slide under their sides.

Require corporations guilty of overbilling to return overbilled funds within 12 working days of their having knowledge up there overbilling, paying interest equal to the inflation rate plus five nominal percentage points from the time the overbilling occurred, no matter whether customers complain about the overbilling.

Require states and local governments to report DUI arrests and convictions to the National Crime Information Center.

Ban antitrust violating pay-for-delay deals between and among companies.

Ban all government entities from giving financial assistance, including tax expenditures, to any sports entity playing in or planning to play in any stadium worth more than $4.5 million.

Prohibit anyone making political donations greater than $200 per year from being appointed to any government position.

Eliminate Federal corporate income taxes on common stock having corporations but require corporations with US revenue to give a percentage of their common stock to the US federal government, on a non-voting basis, equal to 13 percent of their common stocks, using 0.13 times their US revenue divided by their total revenue, 17 percent of marginal common stocks for corporations with market valuations greater than 0.5 billion dollars, 28 percent of marginal common stocks for corporations with market valuations greater than 20 billion dollars, 36 percent of marginal common stocks for corporations with market valuations greater than 60 billion dollars, and 49 percent of marginal common stocks for corporations with market valuations greater than 200 billion dollars. Deny violators access to US markets.

Require civil service exams for all government non-elected jobs paying more than two-thirds the local median wage per year. Require state and federal hiring professionals to give at least half their hiring weight to civil service exam performance, banning the hiring of job candidates having felony or white collar convictions or both.

Ban remunerated in shares corporate officers and directors from selling those shares for seven years, selling no more than 5 percent of their shares per year. If such individuals sell their remuneration shares and their stock prices drop more than 15 percent in the 180 days following their sales, require those individuals to re-buy the stocks at the prices they sold them for.

Provide Federal matching funds to state and local governments for each additional detective and police patrol officer they hire above their current levels.

Require at least time-and-a-half pay for all hourly employees working more than 40 hours in a week.

Eliminate the Hastert rule, which permits the Speaker of the House to block voting on a bill.

Ban adding riders to bills.

Enact the Livestock Protection Act of 2019, Stronger Enforcement of Civil Penalties Act of 2019, PCAOB Whistleblower Protection Act of 2019, Appraisal Fee Transparency Act of 2019, FREED Vets Act, Driver Fatigue Prevention Act, Lower Drug Costs Now Act, Security from Political Interference in Justice Act, Less Traffic with Smart Stop Lights Act of 2019, End Sanctuaries and Help Our American Homeless and Veterans Act,  Comprehensive TB Elimination Act of 2019, Offshore Oil and Gas Worker Whistleblower Protection Act of 2019, Impaired Driving Repeat Offender Prevention Act, and Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act.

Provide at least $8 million to study and publish the benefits and harms of various smart building and alternative building technologies.

Enact the Student Right to Know Before You Go Act of 2019, No Bonuses in Bankruptcy Act of 2019, Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act, Wall Street Tax Act of 2019, Securities Fraud Enforcement and Investor Compensation Act, Carried Interest Fairness Act of 2019, Obstructing Monetary Allocations to Relatives (OMAR) Act, Chronic Wasting Disease Research Act, FinCEN Improvement Act of 2019, Notify ICE Act, Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act of 2019, Protecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act of 2019, Bringing Low-cost Options and Competition While Keeping Incentives for New Generics Act of 2019, Bureau of Reclamation Transparency Act, Cormorant Relief Act, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019, Reclamation of War Powers Act, Gosar's H.R.1190, Hill's H.R.1064, Save the Internet Act of 2019, WOOF! Act, Solidarity in Salary Act of 2019, and Securing Our Borders and Wilderness Act.

Require that state and federal housing spending on non-disabled, non-retired individuals be on units and in areas among the bottom 10 percent of nationwide housing costs.

Ban the sale or other transfer of intellectual property rights held by United States entities to any foreign entity, except when proven beyond a reasonable doubt to serve overall US public benefit.

Ban government contracting with foreign or multinational corporations, except during times of war declared by Congress or when proven beyond a reasonable doubt to serve overall public benefit.

Ban the naming of government holidays after political and military leaders.

Prohibit the new naming of public roads, government buildings, military ships, and military bases after elected officials and political appointees. Change the name of USS Halsey to USS Rochefort.

Enact the DD-214 Modernization Act, Bureau of Reclamation Pumped Storage Hydropower Development Act, Clean Up the Code Act of 2019, Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2019, H.R.417 to combat invasive lionfish, Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Act, Financial Reporting Threshold Modernization Act, Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2019, Arms Sale Oversight Act, Hack Your State Department Act, No More Ghost Money Act, Federal CIO Authorization Act of 2019, Social Security Disability Fairness Act of 2019, Social Security Fairness Act of 2019, Birthright Citizenship Act of 2019, and Counterfeit Goods Seizure Act of 2019.

Prohibit non-citizens and dual citizens from owning or having shares in any United States media entity having assets greater than 0.7 million dollars.

Give citizens the right to sue corporations for serious privacy violations.

Eliminate opportunity zones and similar entities.

Defund the Denali Commission, Federal Housing Administration, Rural Utilities Service, Economic Development Administration.

Fire all smug, greedy, ignorant, groupthink, fanatical, overconfident, Machiavellian, backstabbing, unprofessional managerial class individuals.

Close all United States embassies and consulates in Africa, Mexico, South Asia, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

Eliminate the Market Promotion Program, Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, AmeriCorps, Essential Air Service, Harwood training grants, State Justice Institute, Byrne Justice Assistance Grants, COPS, NeighborWorks America, community development block grants, and targeted water infrastructure grants.

Eliminate government funding for non-governmental organizations, except when proven beneficial beyond a reasonable doubt.

Eliminate unprofitable Amtrak routes.

Require inspectors general to make their reports public, except classified information.

Ban CRISPR patents.

Require above $300 million annual sales online retailers to disclose before purchases countries of product manufacture in easily visible text.

Require above 300 million dollar annual sales non-online retailers to have easily visible, at least 12 point text, countries of manufacture information on all physical products, except fresh fruits and vegetables.

Enact the Medical License Verification Act, Stop Greenlighting Driver Licenses for Illegal Immigrants Act, Bad Landlord Database Act of 2020, Espionage Act Reform Act of 2020, and Fair Returns for Public Lands Act of 2020.

Enact the No CORRUPTION Act, OFFSHORE Act of 2020, Immigration Detainer Enforcement Act of 2019, National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Act of 2019, Trade Certainty Act of 2019, Reef Assassin Act, Protecting Taxpayers From Corruption Act, Truth in Settlements Act, H.R.2409, Hack DHS Act, Procurement Fraud Prevention Act, Soo Locks Modernization Act, Native American Suicide Prevention Act, and Prioritizing Our Workers Act.

Ban dating and social media websites  from non-library and non-law enforcement government-owned electronic devices.

Require all law enforcement entities nationwide to inform ICE of non-citizen arrestees and not release such arrestees until authorized by ICE.

Overturn the Trump executive order requiring the elimination of two regulations for each new regulation.

Ban lobbyists and former lobbyists from being employed by the federal government and from receiving government contracts. Ban lobbyists from giving gifts exceeding $16 in value to any government employee, except first and second degree relatives.

Give authority to the elected attorney general to hire and fire federal prosecutors.

Ban all government regulators, prosecutors, political appointees, and elected officials from owning stocks and bonds for the remainders of their lives.

Create an 80 percent hedonistic negative externalities value added tax on new video games and hedonistic consumer electronics devices, except radios, including two-way radios.

Ban government elected officials and political appointees from knowingly selling non-governmental assets totaling greater than $16 to non-citizens, including through middle persons.

Require sold government assets to be publicly disclosed and compliant with all relevant laws.

Revoke new drinking water regulations introduced during the Biden administration.

Do not provide Secret Service protection to spouses, ex-spouses, and first degree relatives of presidents and ex-presidents unless such relatives live in the the same domiciles as the presidents and ex-presidents at least 330 days per year.

Ban all government entities from accepting financial donations from foreign and multinational entities.

Repeal Taft-Hartley.

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JT Fournier, last updated November 11, 2024