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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Various Policy Recommendations

Send 99 percent of lawsuit punitive damages above $400,000 and 97 percent of pain and suffering damages above $580,000 to the Treasury Department.

Prohibit per individual wrongful death settlements and judgments exceeding 140 times the median US household income. Prohibit per injured individual injury settlements and judgments exceeding 120 times median US household income.

Remove prisoner on prisoner rape and assault victims, plus those at risk of rape, assault or murder, from the general prison population at jails and prisons. Separate prisoners by race and ideology whenever the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs. Implement some recommendations of the National Prison Rape Commission.

Decriminalize private consensual sexual activities involving one or more minors when the individuals involved are separated by three years or less in age, except when any involved individual is deliberately killed or deliberately injured, having injuries requiring hospitalization.

Ban the sale, pet possession, and captive breeding of venomous animals, constrictor snakes, and members of the Felidae family weighing over 40 pounds, except by licensed zoos, zoologists, herpetologists, and relevant government officials.

Remove speed bumps from public roads. Limit driver speeds on residential roads by enforcing speed limits.

Permit contractors to repossess materials, with law enforcement escort, when customers fail to pay.

Create a federally funded and operated chain of sperm banks, available for a $15 user fee, to fertile women citizens having clean urine, no felony convictions, no history of admissions to psychiatric hospitals, and no known serious hereditary illnesses. Donor requirements: male, fertile, IQ at least 125, clean urinalysis (including cotinine), no history of drug abuse, no criminal convictions, ages 15 through 38, no STDs, no history of using Tinder, no disabling hereditary illnesses, no history of psychiatric drug use or admission to psychiatric hospitals, no first degree biological relatives with felony convictions or psychiatric drug treatment, no work history in the following fields: finance, athletics, lobbying, advertising, television, humanities, telemarketing, social media, social sciences, software management or multi-level marketing. Pay sperm donors sufficiently to ensure enough qualified donors donate. 

Spend at least $550 million per year advertising the sperm banks, using harried parent actors with insolent, destructive child actors as examples of what happens with dysgenics. 

Include a federal sperm bank of sperm from whistleblowers and corruption fighters. 

Set US math and verbal national IQ goals, compared to contemporary IQs, of 100 for 16-year-olds by 2050, 102 by 2075, 104 by 2100, 106 by 2125, 108 by 2150, 110 for 16-year-olds by 2175.

Ban visa waivers.

Adjust recommendations on this blog for inflation and changes in population sizes.

Ban the sale of lawsuit settlements to third parties.

Ban gambling nationwide. Prohibit financial transfers to gambling operations outside the US. Prohibit US citizens outside the US from gambling.

Require international money transfer businesses to have a federal license, using license fees to investigate criminal activities by them.

Require corporations selling fresh meat, fruits, and vegetables to have those foods irradiated.

Enact universal federal background checks for firearm sales and gifts. Prohibit more than one firearm purchase or gift receipt of firearms per year by citizens, except by licensed retailers, wholesalers, government entities, and multi-employee guard businesses. Prohibit the purchase of or gift receipt of more than one firearm clip or magazine per year by citizens, except by those listed in the previous sentence. Prohibit the purchase of firearms by attempted buyers knowing of individuals in their households having prior felony convictions or mental health hospitalizations or non-anxiety mental health prescriptions or greater than seven days lifetime incarceration for misdemeanor convictions. Encourage government entities to pass red flag laws, permitting friends, family, and law enforcement entities to file court petitions taking firearms from individuals threatening themselves or others.

Prohibit the possession of automatic, semi-automatic, and lever action firearms by individuals under age 45 outside of their domiciles, their properties, their travels homeward from legal purchases, their travels to their new homes, their appointment scheduled travels to and from gun repair shops, except by employed tellers, cashiers, security guards, law enforcement, railroad workers, merchant mariners, commercial fisherpersons, commercial property leasees, commercial property owners, on duty military personnel, individuals employed as drivers, employees of licensed firearm manufacturers, employees of licensed ammunition manufacturers, licensed harmful species hunters, and individuals acting to prevent or stop likely violent felonies in progress. Prohibit the purchase and gift receipt of semi-automatic and lever action firearms by individuals under age 22. Prohibit vehicle travel with loaded magazines attached to firearms, except by law enforcement, security guards, on duty military personnel, and individuals acting to stop or prevent a likely violent felony in progress. Prohibit the construction and possession of unlicensed, privately made semi-automatic, pump action, and lever action firearms, also known as ghost guns. Prohibit individuals born outside the US from selling, buying, and or possessing ammo and firearms.

Ban the sale, gift, and importation of firearm magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds, except by the military and military contractors acting on behalf of military use. Create a 60-day waiting period for the gift or purchase of firearms. Ban the sale and possession of bump stocks. Prohibit the discharge of firearms by individuals under age 17, except to stop likely violent felonies in progress. 

Prohibit the open carry of firearms, except at least one of:
  1. licensed gun business properties, personal properties, personal domiciles, licensed shooting ranges or gun repair businesses or
  2. the approved activity individuals from two paragraphs above or
  3. licensed hunters on or within 30 feet of permitted hunting lands or
  4. household properties with permission of property owners
Repeal the misnamed Fair Pay Act.

Ban recurring billing without physical opt in signatures or keyboard strokes for each item, each time billed.

Require that at least two passing Phase I medical studies be conducted in the US before granting FDA approval to non-pathogenic medical treatments. Require that at least 60 percent of relevant Phase II and phase III medical studies be conducted in the US and NATO nations before granting FDA approval to non-pathogenic medical treatments.

Create more prison employment for prisoners.

Make
$1,100 per month, per child the maximum child support award. Prohibit child support payments to proven adulterous divorce filing spouses, placing such child support in trusts slowly given to relevant children upon reaching age 18, at a rate of no more than $1,100 per month. 

Ban palimony. 

Ban alimony, except to a) partners who paid greater than $8,000 for the educations and or medical care of partners filing for divorce and or b) to divorce non-filing partners awarded sole custody of both partners' biological children. Prohibit judges from throwing out legal prenups, except during conditions a and or b above.

Conduct research to find the most efficient ways to deliver the crime victim and alleged offender DNA backlog into law enforcement databases.

Require intended use proven effectiveness for product types sold by corporations having more than four hundred million dollars in annual sales  before being offered for sale.

Make it a felony for government employees to warn entities facing government inspections about the specific dates or times of upcoming health, safety, inventory, financial or environmental inspections, with at least a six year mandatory minimum sentence upon conviction.

Ban government employee pay based solely on seniority.

Use Social Security cards and numbers for only Social Security. Create new national identification cards and numbers. Require names and national identification numbers of both parents to be recorded on US birth certificates when parents are American citizens.

Per Brenna Davis, increase prison pet therapy and "group therapy for substance abuse." Offer pet therapy for individuals in solitary confinement, except those having a high risk to kill or torture pets.

Increase the budget of the Employment Standards Administration by at least 90 percent and increase the number of work place inspections by at least 90 percent.

Prohibit any government entity from banning individual photography or videography from any property an individual is legally entitled to sit, walk, stand, or recline upon.

Per Michael Smallberg: "The Department of the Interior should phase out its Royalty in Kind program and return to a market-priced Royalty in Value program." Downblend "excess highly enriched uranium" and sell it to nuclear plants. Implement some of the thousands of recommendations made by inspectors general.

Experiment with the Ready, Willing, and Able Program nationwide.

Collect fingerprints and DNA samples of all convicted, violent felons living in the US. (It violates privacy rights but the samples would protect the much larger privacy, moral, life and property rights of non-criminals.) Create a 100 percent of wealth fine on those convicted of murder. Return fines paid plus interest for overturned convictions. Attach automatic fines at least equal the overall cost of harms done to all convicted violations of federal law.

Ban meeting kidnapper demands.

Require those convicted of financial crimes to serve a minimum of one day of hard labor for each $190 of harm done.
Implement CeaseFire in areas with high rates of violent crime. Pass the Workplace Wrongful Death Accountability Act, increasing fines and prison sentences for corporate murder and manslaughter.

Exempt individuals earning less than three times the national median annual household income from libel and slander lawsuits. Prohibit libel and slander claims from exceeding 16 percent of defendant assets.

Create national legislation legalizing surrogacy contracts, holding individuals to surrogacy contracts they sign.

Allow auto owners to purchase insurance, to contract prior to incidents property and personal damages covered, including pain and suffering damages, plus the ability to sue, similar to the Auto Choice Reform Act.

Allow individuals to choose contractual binding pre-commitments for drug treatment.

Require civil trial losers to pay reasonable court costs of their trials.

Eliminate government funding and approval for medical practices found to have no overall benefit.

Require all law enforcement employees to wear working video cameras while interacting on duty with individuals. Store the video data for at least 180 days at tamper proof locations. Make the data publicly accessible by Freedom of Information Act requests.

Pass the Food Safety Modernization Act. Implement a 15 percent VAT on foods containing brominated vegetable oils and on foods containing potassium bromate.

Ban the deliberate addition of arsenic or growth hormones to livestock or livestock feed.

Repeal legislation in trade laws that are not direct trade matters.

Repeal the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.

Require corporate workers and contractors earning less than 40 percent of local mean hourly income to join their choices of labor unions. Prohibit corporations from preventing such workers from joining labor unions.

Prosecute criminal perpetrators without regard to whether victims want to press charges. Make framing an individual by any other individual, including prosecutors, a felony.

Repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Make group purchasing organizations subject to antitrust and anti-kickback laws.

Prohibit patents on intellectual properties directly developed by taxpayer dollars. Prohibit patents on genes. Ban patents on gene therapies. Repeal Bayh-Dole.

Create a strict, new federal anti-corruption, anti-crime agency, fighting crimes committed by law enforcement entities.

Prohibit state and federal prosecution for the same offense. Rid three strikes laws.

Lift the ban on assassinating foreign leaders in situations where 85 percent congressional approval exists.

Ban any entity receiving government contracts from funding political media, making campaign contributions, giving gifts to current and former federal employees, and from employing former government elected officials and political appointees.

Per Jonathan Cohn: experiment with malpractice health courts and "sorry works" voluntary reporting of medical errors.

End federal funding of PSA screening.

Implement a 20 percent national sales tax on pet foods and foods harvested from biological hot spots.

Require at least 210 days of twice daily breathalyzer tests for alcohol crime convictions of greater than a $1,200 fine and or four days incarceration. Require at least 700 days of owned motor vehicle interlock breathalyzers for alcohol DUI convictions.

Give the attorney general the right to make justice department appointments and the central bank head the right to make central bank appointments.

Ban false flag operations by government employees, intelligence agency subcontractors, and Department of Defense subcontractors, except within the borders or conquered territories of nations Congress declared war on. Make lifetime hard labor the recommended sentence for convictions resulting from such activities.

Make almost all crimes exceeding two days incarceration, $400 in fines, and or 50 hours of community service deportable offenses, except speech and thought crimes.

Prohibit newly constructed public roads from having directional labels such as East Preston Street and West Preston Street.

Prohibit anything from charging citizens or government entities for FDA unapproved treatments on humans within the United States.

Override all rights of home invaders during their home invasions, banning home invaders from pursuing any judgments for harm done to them during invasions.

Ban cattle grazing on environmentally sensitive lands. Require grazing cattle on sensitive lands to be replaced with less harmful animals or no grazing animals.

Require all invasive medical devices to pass clinical trials with mean health benefits at least twice harms before allowing sales. Revoke FDA rule 510(k).

Ban any corporation or individual grossing more than $4,000,000 per year from having negative taxes.

Eliminate The Equitable Sharing Civil Asset Forfeiture Program.

Require publicly available gyms to remove torso rotation machines.

Ban self-defense laws that allow alleged self-defenders to engage in violence based solely on the alleged self-defenders' emotive states.

Ban females from direct combat military occupations, except during periods of homeland invasion.

Split the Ninth Circuit Court in two.

Gradually withdraw from all mutual defense treaties, except those with Australia, New Zealand, and NATO nations.

Ban government entities from selling air, roads, ports, bridges, rivers, creeks, lakes, prisons, airports, parking spaces, police departments, and fire departments to private entities.

Experiment with pre-filing income tax returns similar to the Danish system.

Withdraw US membership in and support for the IMF.

Ban the internment of cetaceans in any pen smaller than 2,000 cubic kilometers. Charge violators according to kidnapping laws.

Charge a 22 percent negative externalities fee on imports from nations that fine, arrest or convict individuals for political speech related crimes. Charge a 20 percent negative externalities fee on imports from nations that deliberately capture or execute cetaceans.

Require government entities to fire without further payment, including employee pensions, at fault government employees when a relevant civil judgment against the government entity exceeds $70,000. Require the fired employees to pay 20 percent of the civil judgment up to $60,000 or 20 percent of the former employees' assets, whichever is larger.

Require euthanization of pets causing attack wounds requiring professional medical treatment of non-owner humans not engaging in relevant reckless or criminal or negligent acts.

Per Luigi Zingales: implement a one percent tax on short-term debt.

Require the FDA to conduct random, annual, unannounced inspections of all facilities manufacturing supplements and prescription drugs for the US market. Provide full funding for such inspections. Give inspectors the power to ban production or imports from any facility that fails inspections.

When a civil judgment is rendered against any government entity for crimes committed by government employees or contractors, require any individuals convicted of those crimes to pay the full amount of civil judgments out their personal assets, excluding amounts exceeding the total assets of those convicted. Require all government employees and contractors to attend a training session informing them that they can be held financially liable for any laws they break, that following orders is no excuse.

Implement some Brennon Center voter registration reforms: http://brennan.3cdn.net/3234b49c4234d92bf3_3km6i2ifu.pdf

Create an Independent Commission Against Corruption similar to the Australian version.

Permit unused portions of the electromagnetic spectrum to be leased to cell phone entities at adequate profit to citizens.

Invalidate an intellectual property claim when that intellectual property is deliberately kept off the market for anti-competitive reasons.

Decriminalize fentanyl test strips.

Charlie Savage: permit "federal judges to quash subpoenas against reporters if they determine that the public interest in the news outweighed the government’s need to uncover the leaker – including, in some circumstances, disclosures of classified national security information."

Repeal laws that punish news and opinion generators for keeping sources confidential, except in cases where such generators reveal classified military strategies, tactics, weapons technologies or positions of forces.

Ban credit risk insurance, including credit default swaps.

Remove restrictions on state regulation of airlines from the Airline Deregulation Act.

Eliminate statutes of limitations on civil suits resulting from felony convictions, along with non-felony financial crime convictions exceeding $40,000 in harms.

Replace the Peace Corps with a Planned Birth Corps offering free IUD procedures to females within the U.S. and to females who cannot afford IUDs elsewhere around the world. Spend $340 million annually on a domestic public education campaign promoting the use of IUDs.

Eliminate all regional Federal Reserve banks. Eliminate all central bank officials who have not been elected by citizen vote or appointed by officials elected by U.S. citizens.

Move all criminal trials of state and local public servants to jurisdictions outside the jurisdictions currently or formerly employing the public servants on trial.

End federally funded mammograms for women under 50, not at a high risk for breast cancer.

Support an international treaty that requires all ocean going vessels over ten tons to pay a environmental damages security deposit.

Prohibit government entities from subcontracting prisons, litigation, law enforcement or tax collection to private entities.

Provide federal funds to purchase and preserve 178,000 acres of U.S. Sugar's land in the Everglades at minimal price.

Require added processed food salts to be 30 to 40 percent potassium chloride by mass.

Increase the penalties for using motor vehicles to evade law enforcement.

Pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009, State Secrets Priviledges Act, FISA Amendments Act of 2009, USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009, National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009, and Executive Branch Accountability Act of 2009.

Grant United States recognition to Nagorno-Karabakh.

Create an international treaty requiring all synthetic DNA sellers to screen orders with lists of dangerous pathogens, to report and punish violators. Embargo any nation that fails to find and punish violators.

Make all first class one ounce stamps forever stamps.

Eliminate funding for air marshals.

Require criminal trials or plea agreements for non-violent crimes causing less than $10,000 in damages to take place within four working days of arrests.

Conduct more research on the Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement system, with minor violators, having curfews monitored with GPS devices.

Ban former federal employees, who had security clearances, from gaining gifts, contracts or employment exceeding $16 from foreign and multinational entities.

Ban anyone formerly employed by the pharmaceutical industry from working for the FDA in a regulatory position. Ban all former corporate executives from working for the FDA. 

Require applicants for financial regulatory positions to read and pass a test on the following books: ECONned, Goliath, 13 Bankers, Predator Nation, Treasure Islands, The Finance Curse, In Praise of Hard Industries, The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins.

Reduce the salary of every federal agency head 0.1 percent every time their agency fails to comply with a legitimate FOIA request in the required amount of time.

Require polluters to pay the full costs for harms caused times at least 1.6.

Restore CDC preparedness funds.

Ban the use of computers and cell phones by drivers of moving vehicles  nationwide. Require new vehicle non-steering wheel audio entertainment controls to disable when moving.

Ban those convicted of rape or murder or both from contacting their victims as well as first, second, and third degree relatives of their victims.

Ban over-the-counter supplements found to cause worse impairment of vehicle operators than a blood alcohol content of 0.08.

Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

Add a one percent of wealth or 0.3 percent of annual income, whichever is greater, federal fine to any texting while driving conviction.

Require schools and employers to provide treadmill desks and or ergonomic chairs such as Herman Miller Aerons for students and more than three hours per day desk job employees.

Repeal the $75 million liability cap on oil companies.

Pass the Specter Amendment to the Exchange Act. Revoke Rule 144A.

Require hospitals to provide private, anonymous drop off spots for young children that parents or guardians plan to abandon.

Require medical providers to give a printed copy of harmful test results to patients.

Implement some of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission national standards.

Create the necessary incentives to implement a worldwide ban on the distribution and production of ephedrine and psuedoephedrine.

Prohibit any multinational corporation with outstanding legal judgments--exceeding two years without payment, excluding publishers--from doing business with and in the US.

Pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 and Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act of 2011.

Ban any law enforcement employee convicted of any felony from remaining employed with any government entity and from manufacturing any lawsuits related to their law enforcement employment.

Ban non-physicians from performing male circumcisions. Charge anyone who puts their mouth on the penis of a recently circumcised child with sexual assault and reckless endangerment.

Require all individuals contemplating non-emergency surgeries to be informed of non-surgical alternatives and of expected values for surgery and alternatives by independent decision making experts. Prohibit the experts from receiving gifts or payments from the medical industry.

Pay convicts and drug addicts $4,000 to obtain permanent, federally funded sterilization, except those already sterile and those serving mandatory life without parole sentences.

Repeal the Davis Bacon Act.

Ban the importation of all species of live freshwater and saltwater animals for food use and food sale.

Pass an abortion consistency law applying to any state restricting abortions during the first 22 weeks of pregnancy. Require all females aged 11 to 46 in those states to subsist on vitamin supplements, mineral supplements, white bread, skinless potatoes, saltine crackers, protein powder, and vegetable oil. Most abortions are spontaneous, often resulting from reactions to slightly toxic foods. Prohibit physical work among these girls and women that might induce an abortion. Fine any company that knowingly sells other foods to the above individuals for reckless endangerment. Require monthly, random testing for pregnancy and banned substances. Ban pregnancy causing activities by individuals genetically likely to have miscarriages and spontaneous abortions. The fact that miscarriages and spontaneous abortions are "natural" is ethically irrelevant.

Require national citizen ID cards for employment. Fine employers $27,000 for every illegal immigrant employee they hire. Provide full federal funding for workplace inspections, enforcement, and prosecutions.

Ban all trademarks on all words contained in the 2000 edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, except words already trademarked.

Require anyone conceiving a child with a married individual they are not married to at the time of conception to pay child support if the married individual or their spouse retains sole custody of that child until that child reaches age 16.

Prohibit states and local governments from restricting the number of taxi licenses granted to individuals and partnerships, except to ensure that taxis and drivers are adequately insured and have passed required inspections and safety requirements

Prohibit individuals under age 18 from riding in golf carts lacking roll cages and seat belts. Require individuals under age 18 to wear seat belts in golf carts. Require roll cages and seat belts in all new golf carts. Prohibit golf carts from having maximum speeds above 20 mph.

Provide funding to analyze backlogged rape kits and to enter results in databases.

Prohibit prisoners from using online social media and dating sites.

Prohibit former intelligence agency employees from Federal elected office.

Overturn most presidential executive orders since 1963.

Conduct a large study on building and public transportation designs to reduce the spread of pathogens.

Require government fines to at least equal the dollar value of the harm done.

Require all law enforcement agencies to fire employees directly responsible for the lawsuit filing anytime agencies lose lawsuits exceeding $40,000. Prohibit those fired individuals from working in law enforcement elsewhere.

Change the numbers of judgeships and funding for such in proportion to changes in numbers of cases.

End scholarship programs by intelligence agencies.

Ban salary payments to federal elected officials during periods of federal shutdown. Ban federal elected officials from regaining such lost payments.

Permanently close all US embassies and consulates in OIC lands. Close all OIC member embassies and consulates in the US. Close all Mexican, Chinese, Israeli, African, Caribbean, South American, and Central American consulates in the US. Close all US consulates outside Japan, Europe, Canada, Australia, South Korea, and New Zealand.

Require individuals sentenced to more than 30 days for financial crimes to serve hard labor or sentences in supermax prisons

Ban the sale of shark fins and the on land possession of shark fins.

Make it a felony to tamper with recording devices owned by any level of government.

Ban the use of lie detectors in all government activities, except research on the accuracy of lie detectors.

Create a mandatory minimum bail for financial crimes at least equal to the financial harm done. Create a mandatory minimum bail for felony crimes at least equal to ten percent of the arrestees assets.

Pass the End Debt Collector Abuse Act of 2010 and the Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act of 2009.

Permanently ban anyone sentenced to more than four days in jail, more than $5,000 in fines or more than 50 hours of community service for financial crimes from working in the financial industry. Permanently ban the CEO of any corporation fined more than $4.5 million for financial crimes committed during the CEO's tenure from ever working in finance or as an executive in any capacity.

Require all religious entities receiving more than $11,000 in annual donations to file an IRS Form 990 every year.

Prohibit the central bank from having private regional banks.

Ban corporations from sales and solicitations on public property.

Ban the training and practice of chiropracty

Ban government entities from forcing victims to pay the costs of others' negative externalities.

Require all business and government entities to report all significantly hazardous substances they release into the environment to the EPA and to individuals filing FOIA requests.

Provide federal matching funds for state and local infrastructure projects passing adequate overall benefit-harm tests any time the national unemployment rate is above 5.2 percent.

Require consumer diagnostic systems to be accessible to independent mechanics.

Ban any foreign entity or individual fined for bribery or extortion, or convicted of bribery or extortion, from doing business with any US entity or from entering the US.

Ban motor vehicles licensed outside the US and Canada from traveling on US roads.

Ban anyone without a valid license or learner's permit from driving on US roads, except during emergencies.

Verify the identity of motor vehicle registration purchases and renewals with the national ID card.

Create a new $40, ten year federal hunting, trapping, fishing, and gathering license good for use on federal lands and waterways for the removal of designated harmful species.

Ban storage of coal ash at locations vulnerable to large waterway spills.

Ban any entity failing to pay US ordered fines from sales, production or distribution within the US.

Ban phone calls delivering prerecorded messages, except prerecorded messages from friends, relatives, employers, and government agencies, excluding the IRS.

Ban the use of cell phones and other electronic communications equipment by non-law enforcement drivers in moving bicycles, scooters, and motor vehicles.

Ban life insurance payments to beneficiaries when policy holders die in the act of committing a felony.

Ban state and local restrictions on non-fossil fuel energy projects in and above US waters.

Ban the removal of efficient, well-functioning hydroelectric dams until any year fossil fuels produce less than one percent of US electrical energy.

Make all non-military and non-health hazard dumpsters public domain, including the property under and in the immediate vicinity of dumpsters. Ban individuals from poisoning food in dumpsters and from locking access to dumpsters, except military and health hazard dumpsters.

Require all federal legislators to live at least 180 nights per year in randomly selected for rent or sale housing in the poorest zip code within Washington DC.

Repeal laws that require employers to meet employee religious requests.

Fix or eliminate the Congressional Budget Office.

Require all federal agencies and departments to undergo independent financial audits at well-reasoned intervals.

Implement a 25 percent VAT on all purchases made by the Department of Defense from private entities outside the US.

Prohibit any individual from being punished for audio or video recording any public activities engaged in by any government employee or contractor. Make it a felony for government officials to punish employees for reporting legitimate crimes and misconduct committed by contractors or other government employees. Make it a crime not to report crimes committed by fellow government employees or contractors. Eliminate the pensions of any government employee convicted of any felony, except when the convictions are later overturned. Return any forfeited retirement payments to retired government employees when felony convictions are later overturned. Require every state to create an investigators and prosecutors division to prosecute crimes committed by government employees. Fully fund the divisions with federal funds. Elect the heads of the divisions by statewide elections. Allow the heads to make all division appointments and to override the decisions of local prosecutors to prosecute or not prosecute government employees. Put the division in complete control of all dash-cams and and other state and local law enforcement recording devices. Prohibit employees of this division from knowingly socializing with other government employees while off duty.

Require time and a half pay for all work done for corporations beyond forty hours per week.

Matt Stoller: require publicly available audio and video recordings of all public hearings.

Ban unpaid internships and all other unpaid work for corporations, government employers, and political parties.

Require minimum fines for driving under the influence to at least equal 2.6 percent of annual income or 0.5 percent of wealth, whichever is greater.

Create federally funded clinics to provide a low-cost daily fixes for drug addicts. Require all addicts to arrive and leave the clinics by walking or public transportation. Make such dosing records electronically available to law enforcement agencies.

Create dozens of Truman Committees for major areas of spending.

Prohibit the hiring or continued employment of regulators having spouses or first degree relatives employed in industries those regulators regulate.

Prohibit government entities from taking tax payments in anything other than United States dollars.

Prohibit cheerleaders from being more than three feet above a standing surface during cheerleading activities.

Require government entities to try juveniles committing violent felonies with knives, firearms or explosives as adults.

Revoke section 1201 from DMCA, the section limiting right to repair.


Repeal the Proxmire Amendments that prevent the FDA from regulating huge doses of vitamins.

Give civilian prosecutors the right to prosecute crimes committed by military personnel in their jurisdictions.

Ban the use of public funds for maintenance on paved single outlet roads in counties having more than 150,000 population.

Ban government entities from hiring armed contractors.

Remove publicly funded Secret Service protection for any individual or family having greater than $47 million dollars in assets.

Require for-profit legal contracts to be comprehensible to citizens reading at an eighth grade level.

Eliminate funding for BioWatch.

Pass the better parts of S. 1196, Chuck Grassley's e-verify bill, including the parts consistent with this website.

Grant water rights to owners of lands rainwater falls onto, until the rainwater leaves those lands.

Eliminate Freedom of Information Act exemptions, except national security and Department of Defense exemptions specifically granted by Congress.

Eliminate the J-1 Summer Work Travel Program.

Ban policies that make it illegal to arrest minors for prostitution.

Separate state and federal prisoners by race, religion, and non-religion, except when doing so would create excessive costs.

Implement a 52 percent federal mandatory minimum marginal federal tax on adjusted annual gross incomes above seven times the median household income per year.

Ban the privatization of prisons, tax debts, water utilities, and court ordered fines.

Ban relatives from abrogating living wills.

Ban lawsuits against good samaritans for reasonable acts.

Ban non-temporary seizures of property, except under court order or legislative act.

Ban organized soccer, hockey, lacrosse, football, pageants, roller derby, pole vaulting, discus throwing, shot putting, javelin throwing, hammer throwing, and competitive cheerleading for individuals under the age of 17.

Ban under 18 organized sports from practicing more than 6.5 hours per week.

Ban any political entity from labeling itself as independent or nonpartisan in paid advertising.

Ban smoking in all buildings, vehicles, and other enclosed spaces containing individuals under the age of 18.

Ban libel and slander lawsuits exceeding 16 percent of a defendant's net assets or yearly income, whichever is greater.

Ban anyone committing a felony from suing victims of the felony for harms the criminal suffers committing the crime.

Ban the consumption of alcohol products by knowingly pregnant individuals.

Permit victims of paternity fraud to sue for damages, except when the resulting child lives below the federal poverty level and the person committing the fraud is a custodial parent.

Create a mandatory minimum sentence of 180 days hard labor for anyone convicted of knowingly, falsely accusing another individual of a felony.

Ban anyone convicted of rape from having any parental rights over any children resulting from the rape.

Ban the importation of meat from birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ban the sale of fish oil supplements.

Create a $30 per passenger negative externalities tax on international flights leaving and entering the US, except for Canadian citizens on flights originating from Canada.

Give agencies investigating and prosecuting white collar crimes at least 280 percent more workers to investigate and prosecute white collar crimes, plus require them to conduct roughly 280 percent more investigations and prosecutions.

Require the E-Verify system to auto-report when the same worker's Social Security number occurs at two or more employers. Require investigators to briefly check whether the same individual has more than one job or whether a crime occurred. Arrest those committing fraud. Require employers to submit electronic copies of workers' government photo IDs. Require employers to submit employer taken head photos of current and prospective workers.

Require all judges, generals, admirals, cabinet officials, and federal elected officials to undergo random testing for illegal drugs eight times per year, fining them six percent of their gross annual salaries for each positive result. Require those with positive tests to be tested 16 times per year for the remainders of their federal employments.

Remove the word whereas and other verbose insertions from new laws. Ban enforcement of portions of new laws containing any of the words fear, hate, feel, envy, hatred, dislike, offensive, happy, unhappy, pleasant, unpleasant, comfortable, and or uncomfortable, including gerunds, synonyms, plural forms, and or past tenses beginning on January 21, 2013. 

Require rejection of lawsuit filings containing irrelevant ad hominem attacks. Permit attorney and defendant objections to any fallacious reasoning during trials.

Ban prisoners from wearing jewelry and or religious attire.

Ban circumcisions without anesthesia.

Eliminate federal funding for PSA screenings, except for men with previous histories of prostate cancer or family histories of prostate cancer.

Ban unsolicited advertising by text message. Fine advertisers $0.80 for every such advertising text sent.

Require every state to score eight or higher on the Trust for America's Health pathogen preparedness scale by the end of 2014.

Require government contracts and purchases to be made on a cost-benefit basis, meaning benefit-harm basis.

Ban government employed medical professionals from prescribing more expensive treatments when cheaper equivalents are available.

Per Robert McIntyre: "repeal the tax rule that indefinitely exempts offshore profits from United States corporate income tax."

Permit the USPS to provide basic banking services.

Ban drug makers from giving free and below cost samples of habit forming psychoactive drugs.

Increase the IRS Budget by $6 billion per year, using the increase to hire at least 12,000 employees, to audit and investigate individuals with suspected incomes over $190,000 per year. Thereafter, increase the IRS budget one billion dollars for every $800 billion increase in GDP.

End all migration into the US. Eliminate all visas to the US, except tourist, student, and diplomatic visas for citizens of Japan, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, and NATO nations placing $90,000 in a holding account, returnable when leaving. Remove Turkey and Albania from NATO. End asylum. Immediately expel migrants. 

Ban direct and indirect remittances to lands refusing to take expelled and deported migrants back. Ban flights from those lands. Ban mail and other deliveries to and from those lands. If they still refuse, parachute drop their US migrants home.

Ban drug makers, wholesalers, and middlemen from paying physicians, except their full-time physician employees paid more than $200,000 per year by them.

Expand the ban on insider trading to all US citizens, residents, and anyone making trades to and from the United States.

Provide federal funds to establish and run organizations similar to the Westergaard Foundation.

Rescind the tax exempt status of all charitable entities not devoting at least 82 percent of their funds for primary human services: housing, nutrition, clothing, health care, health research, primary education.

Ban tax holidays.

Require items collected for recycling within the US to be processed within the US.

Create independent commissions to fight corruption at the federal and state level.

Make it a felony for a government employee or contractor to confiscate a recording without a court order.

Repeal Section 601 of HR 1905, the section banning diplomacy.

Ban anyone in prison, on parole or on probation from holding a politically appointed state, local or federal position.

Ban any government employee pension from exceeding 70 percent of the median annual income of full time, full year workers.

Pass a federal good samaritan law.

Repeal the misnamed Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act.

Grant Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin islands independence. Prohibit territories from having federal tax advantages over states.

Have government entities buy properties or other assets they lease when long-term costs of leasing exceed long-term costs of buying.

Ban S corporations.

Place all US phone numbers on a marketer do not call and text registry, except when number owners opt out.

Require any individual convicted of  perjury resulting in punishment of an innocent defendant to face an equal or greater punishment.

Require publicly published government computer forms and publications intended for mass distribution to be published in at least two different file formats.

Require law enforcement patrol vehicles to have dash cameras, making all recordings publicly available for at least 30 days.

At least double federal non-opiate pain reduction research and development. 

Ban prescriptions of stimulants for weight loss. Require individuals prescribing  psychoactive drugs to minors to issue  well-reasoned reports explaining why the problems could not be alleviated with moral actions and strenuous exercise.

Ban government gifts to corporations. Prohibit regulators from being embedded with entities they regulate, except when conducting investigations and other oversight activities.

Provide federal funds to extend by up to 40 percent the operating hours of public libraries having a mean of 25 or more patrons inside during additional hours.

Ban government vehicles from speeding unless they have flashers on.

Hire 9000 additional U.S. Labor Department investigators and prosecutors.

Ban government insurance for any private financial entity or product, except savings and checking accounts.

Use federal funds for nationwide implementation of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative.

Pass a 0.2 percent financial transactions tax.

Require any fertile individual who applies for TANF benefits to become surgically sterilized before obtaining such benefits. Require any fertile individual, who applies for non-physical disability benefits to become surgically sterilized before obtaining such benefits. Offer fertile, current or former special education students, between the ages of 18 and 44, $20,000 in federal funds to become surgically sterilized.

Ban anyone having an IQ under 120, age over 35, any drug-related convictions, any psychiatric drug use, any financial crime convictions or any felony convictions from donating to US sperm banks.

Decide congressional salaries by voters every two years during general elections, with three inflation adjusted options available: current salary, ten percent pay cut, ten percent increase.

Create a less expensive legal training and licensing system similar to the UK's but with more options for apprenticeships.

Grant a non-citizen appearing at a US embassy or consulate the right to present sufficient evidence for a relationship that led to the birth of a child by a named US citizen or legal  resident. When the named US individual does not provide basic child support for the minor, court order the named US individual to undergo parental DNA testing. If the US citizen or resident is proven by DNA evidence to be the biological parent of a minor non-citizen living outside the US, deduct $100 per month minimum, per child in child support and electronically transfer the funds to the foreign child or their guardian. Deny non-custodial parents the right to bring children to the United States, except when their children have been kidnapped from a non-custodial US citizen parent. 

Pass the Byrd Mine and Workplace Safety and Health Act, The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2001, and the Internet Freedom Act. Approve the Minamata Convention to reduce mercury exposure.

Investigate representative samples of packaged food products sold at retail chains having more than $100 million in annual sales. Fine food producers when major ingredients differ from labels by more than ten percent.

Require cell phone providers to unlock cell phones at the request of cell phone owners.

Publish results of all clinical trials. Fine drug makers $600 million for any new, unpublished clinical trial beginning in 2013.

National Research Council: build and launch infrared survey spacecraft to look for Earth bound objects.

Pass the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act.

Repeal laws prohibiting the travel of bicycles moving under ten miles per hour on sidewalks.

Require surgical sterilization of fertile individuals having their child removed for greater than 90 days for abuse or neglect.

Repeal the misnamed 1991 Civil Rights Restoration Act.

Require publication of publicly funded non-national security research in free to read and download open-access publications.

Implement a few anti-terrorism prescriptions from the Gilmore Commission.

Downsize the service academies to nothingness. Use ROTC programs, other programs, and promotion of enlisted personnel to create officers.

Prohibit any individual from earning more than $450,000 per year from government contracts.

Vagueness per Bill Joy: "Create an international body to publicly examine the dangers of technologies... [r]elinquish... development of those technologies so dangerous that we judge it better that they never be available."

Fund efficient syringe exchange programs.

Restore funding for the Microbiological Data Program and reform the program.

Declare any sea lane with high rates of piracy to be few boat zones, banning vessels, except non-motorized boats, international shipping, and international military craft. Within the few boat zone, seize or sink highly probable pirate vessels.

Ban the for profit sale of products containing triclosan.

Require parents and guardians failing to obtain required vaccinations for their custodial children to pay a $300 annual negligence tax each year they fail to vaccinate.

Ban the sale of homeopathic products.

Charge individuals using homeopathy and faith healing on children with practicing medicine without a license.

JT Fournier, last updated April 12, 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