Constitutional Amendments

Pass legislation if constitutional, then constitutional amendments accomplishing the following:

• eliminating the United States Senate, devolving any beneficial functions to the House, excluding filibusters
• banning all forms of honoraria and remuneration for speaking engagements by current and former elected officials and Federal appointees
• banning non-majority congresspersons and unelected individuals from holding up legislation by non-democratic means
• eliminating the current Federal Reserve, placing a new Central Bank under control a majority or plurality citizen vote elected five-year term head
• giving majority House vote the right to mail equal, well-reasoned sums of money to all U.S. citizens when there exists a shortfall in U.S. demand and U.S. inflation is excessively low, banning corporate bailouts, except for well-reasoned manufacturing or national security concerns, prohibiting bailouts of foreign entities, including multinational entities having at least one quarter of their employees outside the United States
• giving the Central Bank head the right to buy and retire federal government securities
• requiring Central Bank lending to be both profitable and a beneficial creator of non-financial goods and services
• banning the Central Bank from making or having loans at rates below the inflation rate
• prohibiting the Central Bank from employing former private sector financial industry employees in jobs paying more than the local median household income per year
• banning anyone from simultaneously working for the Central Bank and private for profit entities
• banning private entities from owning any portion of the Central Bank
• requiring implementation of Central Bank policies by the elected Central Bank head and government employees appointed by the head
• banning former Central Bank employees from working in the financial industry
• eliminating the nine person Supreme Court, creating and electing a new two-year office for the United States Attorney General and a one person two-year term Supreme Court chosen by nationwide instant runoff vote
• requiring all judges and federal elected officials to take at least a 500 hour course in accurately weighing evidence prior to becoming a judges or elected officials
• requiring all judges to be elected to two-year terms.
• permitting any contiguous, non-polygamist, non-aggressive group of 60 plus citizens having mean per capita wealth and income below 290 percent of the US mean per capita wealth and income to peacefully secede along with their assets, permitting them to secede with a percentage of national land no greater than their percentage of the general population.
• overturning Citizens United
• eliminating judicial review
• adding any law previously overturned by courts to general election ballots for voter review, automatically reinstating any law approved by a majority of legally voting voters
• banning courts from overturning the same law again
• putting federal laws overturned by courts on ballots nationwide and state laws overturned on in-state ballots
• requiring all military employees to take a yearly oath to defend American individuals from unwarranted violence
• requiring a special election within 80 days to fill any vacated federal elected, non-presidential office, banning governor appointed individuals from filling the office for more than 90 days
• limiting maximum elected official annual all source earnings to nine times the median annual earnings of full-time, full-year workers
• reducing presidential and legislator salaries ten percent each non-quarantine 200 consecutive day period the unemployment rate is above 5.4 percent
• banning military interventions lasting more than 20 days without weekly majority House approval
• requiring federal elected officials to participate in a military draft lottery each term, with a 15 percent chance of being drafted into the infantry as an enlisted soldier, with no age, medical or other excuses for escaping service, to be served for two years at the end of each elected term
• Requiring US Army drafting as E-1s of individuals having net worths greater than 200 million dollars and or previous year incomes greater than 14 million dollars after any three month period when US military combat casualties exceed 130 for each month
• requiring E-1 US Army drafting of pundits earning more than $99,000 in the previous year after any three month period when US military combat casualties exceed 130 for each month
• requiring billionaires and pundits earning more than $99,000 per year to be drafted into the infantry following any month with more than 400 US combat casualties
• eliminating the electoral college and instead electing presidents by nationwide instant runoff vote
• creating party-list and independent candidate proportional representation in the House with seats awarded to non-party candidates or party candidates who receive the most votes
• permitting the United States president to introduce legislation requiring a House vote
• distributing House seats by the best research methods, using independent, blinded redistricting czars to eliminate gerrymandering
• eliminating all lifetime judicial appointments, creating judicial terms of maximum two years
• banning all United States entities from providing financial or material support to insurgents or counterinsurgents working to spread Islam, globalism, Hitlerism, communism, monarchism, multiculturalism, neoconservatism, rapturism, armageddonism, third wayism or laissez-faire economics
• banning all United States entities from providing financial or material support to insurgents or counterinsurgents working to deny ethical self-determination
• registering all adult citizens to vote at their address on a national ID card, permitting homeless citizens to be registered at a charity or rental mail box or the address of a friend
• prohibiting entities receiving government financial assistance, including tax entitlements, from paying any individual, except physicians, more than five times the median annual household income per year in all forms of remuneration
• designating well-reasoned, well-regulated capitalism as the macroeconomic system of the United States
• permitting Congress to declare a national emergency by 55 percent vote if the president has not done so
• granting DC statehood
• giving every political party having at least 0.2 percent of registered voters as members a spot on ballots
• banning signing statements
• granting line item veto power to the president and the ability to override the line item veto and other vetoes to Congress with a 55 percent majority
• prohibiting labor unions for government employees
• prohibiting teacher tenure at publicly funded entities
• increasing the size of the House to 501 representatives, with one staff member per 17,000 citizens represented, requiring a staffer minimum wage equal to twice the national median hourly wage
• requiring Congressional committee and subcommittee funding sufficient to maximize public benefits
• prohibiting current and former federal auditors, prosecutors, inspectors, investigators, political appointees, law enforcers, and elected officials who received a gross, annual federal salary more than the median annual household income from receiving direct or indirect gifts exceeding $16 and value from anyone other than spouses, grandparents and first degree relatives for the rest of their lives, prohibiting the previously mentioned individuals from ever being employed directly or indirectly by any corporation for the remainder of their lives, including freelance, subcontract work and quid pro quo gifts to themselves, spouses or first degree relatives from corporations
• granting citizens in criminal cases the right to presumed innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, except for arson, treason, espionage, lethal terrorism, pathogen crimes, financial crimes, nuclear weapons crimes or destruction of properties, along with crimes committed by generals, admirals, non-citizens, elected officials, former elected officials, political appointees, dual citizens, and individuals with annual incomes at least 40 times greater than median per capita income, net assets at least 30 times greater than median adult wealth or as prescribed elsewhere on this site, where preponderance of evidence shall be the standard
• banning any entity operating within the United States from loaning money to any foreign government
• banning the deliberate human importation of living birds, reptiles, and mammals, except for zoos and medically approved purposes
• permitting a right to resist unlawful entry against an unlawful entrant into a home
• Requiring US laws to extend to all entities operating in the US
• banning disability awards for drug addictions
• banning businesses and individuals convicted of financial crimes from more than one appeal
• banning current and former felons, millionaires, billionaires, registered lobbyists, financial industry employees, insurance industry employees, and political party members from being judges, defining a political party member as anyone who previously ran for political office as a member of a political party
• prohibiting foreign and multinational entities from owning or managing US media, from hiring or donating to US political entities, including dual citizens and individuals not born within the United States
• requiring temporary universal basic income to replace unemployment insurance during major pandemics and other economic catastrophes
• banning state legislatures from limiting liability on corporations
• banning judges from altering civil damages against corporations by more than 92 percent
• allowing the president, attorney general, and head of the central bank to make their appointments without congressional approval, giving the attorney general authority to supervise and enforce all financial and anti-trust laws with funding decided by voters
• eliminating pardoning and commuting power for presidents and governors
• banning affirmative action policies
• banning race, ethnicity, and religion based government mandated financial benefits
• banning government grants and tax entitlements to religious groups
• banning government loans and grants to nonprofits
• prohibiting commercial banks from investing in private equity funds 
• prohibiting commercial banks from managing funds
• banning government entities from taking anything other than United States Federal currency in tax payments
• making the presidential succession line: vice president, secretary of state, federal employees from a rank order list previously provided by the president, randomly selected cabinet member, randomly selected member of the House from the president's party if any, randomly selected state legislator, with random selections run and overseen by surviving members of the American Statistical Association
• banning the use of any taxpayer funds to resettle any immigrant
• banning all government desegregation policies
• lowering the age children may voluntarily drop out of school to 12, requiring drop outs under 18 to work at least 28 hours per week or perform 80 hours per month of community service or attend college, with passing grades, for at least 11 semester hours or attend, with passing grades, a vocational program that meets at least 24 hours per week
• ending, involuntarily, the public school education of any public school student above age 11 suspended or incarcerated more than a lifetime total of 31 days
• requiring court ordered child support payments to be automatically, electronically deducted from paychecks or added to tax bills for individuals not receiving regular paychecks
• requiring surgical sterilization for males and pre-menopausal females failing to pay more than 270, consecutive or nonconsecutive, days of court ordered child support
• requiring surgical sterilization for male or pre-menopausal female prisoners sentenced to more than 30 days in prison, except for prisoners serving life without parole or female prisoners expecting release after they become postmenopausal
• banning new laws from quoting texts  claiming to be the words of gods
• overturning all general public policy rulings by all judges, banning government entities from giving any weight to general public policy rulings by judges, also known as undemocratic dictators
• requiring legal punishments at least severe enough to severely deter copycat crimes
• requiring punishment fines for monetary crimes and other profitable crimes to be at least three times the costs of crimes
• requiring only Congressional majority vote to withdraw from an international agreement
• providing for direct citizen election of a single Federal Trade Commission commissioner to two-year terms, eliminating the four other commissioners.
• requiring government activities to be randomly audited at least once every three years by the Attorney General's office
• eliminating legal restrictions on union organizing during non-work periods by private sector workers earning less than half the local mean in total hourly compensation, except racketeering activities 
• requiring all government entities to have anonymous tip lines, run by the Attorney General's office, reporting criminality and inefficiency, making publicly available all submitted tips, except those tips that may endanger the safety of tipsters potentially unable to keep their anonymity
• banning trade laws from overriding other laws
• granting birthright citizenship to only individuals having at least one United States citizen biological parent
• requiring privately held corporations to be reorganized as partnerships or sole proprietorships
• banning the elimination of Federal savings deposit insurance
• requiring states to have unicameral legislatures
• banning government loans having negative inflation adjusted economic expected values
• banning government entities from creating laws or incentives for private entities to make loans having negative inflation adjusted economic expected values
• requiring laws demanding disclosure of unethical activities to also ban and provide sufficient punishment for those activities
• eliminating diplomatic immunity, holding all individuals within the US to the laws of the land 
• requiring all diplomats entering the US to sign an oath agreeing to obey US laws and to comply with any punishments for violating US laws
• banning the use of judicial precedent in legal decisions
• requiring all legal decisions be made by an accurate weighing of laws and well-reasoned evidence relevant to each individual case
• prohibiting government entities from contracting or otherwise devolving licensing, inspecting, and regulating activities to non-government entities
• banning all judges, federal elected officials, political appointees, their spouses, and their first degree relatives from having financial instruments, except savings accounts, checking accounts, and personal home mortgages
• prohibiting all elected officials, political appointees, their spouses, and their first-degree relatives from receiving any personal or campaign gifts or funds exceeding $16 in value from any foreign or multinational entity
• requiring all law enforcement entities to make all evidence publicly available from all law enforcement actions that result in death, hospitalization, destruction of property or confiscation of property
• banning all individuals with dual citizenships from voting in United States elections, donating to United States political campaigns, being employed by United States government entities, contracting with United States government entities, and advocating for United States political candidates
• banning school related government aid to private post-secondary schools and their students
• requiring public publication of votes made by government elected officials, except primary and general election votes 
• banning educational loans and loan guarantees to post-secondary students not studying critical shortage fields 
• banning foreign and multinational entities from funding US political activities
• banning federal funds to state, local, and private post-secondary schools for purposes unrelated to academics
• legalizing buyers' cartels when serving sufficient overall benefit or the best available Hobson's alternative
• banning foreign and multinational entities from owning US real estate
• requiring elimination of trade relations with the People's Republic of China for at least 95 years if it invades Taiwan
• banning gain of function pathogen research, creating a mandatory minimum sentence of 90 years extreme torture, having preponderance of evidence convictions
• banning any entity from donating more than $2,000 per year to political entities
• banning political parties from purchases costing less than 80 percent of market value 
• giving voters the right to ban by majority direct vote any technology voters deem too great an existential risk.
• banning political parties from selling goods and services for more than 120 percent of market value 
• prohibiting public universities from entering into partnerships with corporations, private partnerships, sole proprietorships, OIC entities, and foreign government entities
• banning federal entities from watering down state and local financial, insurance, and real estate regulations and enforcement
• requiring that only the following attributes be considered when hiring for government positions: citizenship status, civil service test scores, criminal backgrounds, relevant skills, previous work performance
• requiring only a preponderance of tacit cooperation evidence for price fixing and other antitrust convictions
• prohibiting the giving of vouchers, tax entitlements, means tested funds, and stimulus money to multinational entities and entities outside the geographical lands and waters of the United States
• limiting intellectual property rights to 20 years after total sales and rentals of items relevant to an intellectual property exceed twice the annual median household income, eight years for non-defense software and pharmaceuticals, 65 years for items never exceeding twice the annual median household income in sales and rentals
• requiring government officials to obey all laws of the nation
• banning all religion based libel and slander lawsuits
• requiring harms to offenders by civil and criminal punishments to at least equal the harms the offenders caused victims divided by the probabilities of being caught for the offenses from zero to one
• banning lawsuits, criminal charges, and government fiscal rules based on claims of emotional traumas and or epigenetic harms
• banning lawsuits, criminal charges, and government fiscal rules based on claims of harms done to dead ancestors over 80 years ago by now dead alleged perpetrators
• banning portions of laws specifying maximum fines for financial crimes
• banning the religious sacrifice of vertebrates
• requiring government entities to choose the law that best serves citizens' ethical benefits when federal laws contradict
• requiring sentencing guidelines for state and federal crimes
• requiring state or federal appointment of special prosecutors to handle criminal cases involving local government officials, including law enforcement employees
• banning all government officials from hiring or appointing first, second, and third degree relatives to any government position, including relatives through marriage
• requiring all ballots for state or federal office to list at least ten candidate parties or individuals for each state or federal office, arranged in randomly selected order
• banning provision of government services by lotteries
• banning intentional US military use of firearms, explosives, chemical weapons, and or biological weapons against US citizens, legal residents, and or former US citizens within US borders, except against active muggers, assaulters, murderers, hostage takers, building invaders, attempted murderers, and or non-compliant trespassers at government owned restricted areas
• requiring election laws, procedures, and enforcement to be consistent throughout the nation
• voiding laws banning the use, sale, purchase, and or possession of FDA approved devices used primarily for birth control
• requiring four or better scores on at least three AP tests or at least 30 transferable public community college semester hours to gain degree seeking admission at US baccalaureate granting institutions
• removing "of rebellion or" from article one, section nine
• banning from political appointments: individuals donating more than a lifetime total of the median annual household income to political entities
• requiring severe enough punishments  for lapses found by audits to prevent similar lapses by other entities
• requiring judges, congresspersons, political appointees, and Congressional staffers to have been born in US states or territories
• adding rights to an ethical education; to an honest day's pay for an honest day's work; to clean air, clean water, and healthy nutrition; to well-reasoned medical treatment; to freedom from hypothermia; to freedom of association; to public support when 100 percent disabled; to school environments without hostile, unethical, and disruptive individuals; to well-reasoned consent to a medically assisted death with dignity; to freedom from tyranny arising from unethical ideologies, including religions; to have all legal decisions made by ethically well-reasoned evidence; to independent legal counsel during criminal cases at no personal cost; to not having life endangered by in-group or out-group members; to permanently leave the nation, provided all court ordered punishments have been paid; to a nation not made worse by the unethical actions of previous generations; to swift legal procedures and highly probable punishments for crimes committed, having harms not grossly exceeding the overall harms done by the crimes and the expected values of interrupted harms and failed attempts at harm; to choose between imprisonment or corporal punishment for minor crimes or crimes with a sufficiently low probability of repeat offense; to peaceful, unarmed individual or group protests on personal or public property, not interfering with the free passage of vehicles or pedestrians, not causing deliberate damage to others' properties; to employ relatives of any age in consensual, nonhazardous, family owned partnerships and sole proprietorships; to video or audio record the public actions of all other individuals; to run for office and hold office when obtaining sufficient votes, except when having a prior felony conviction; to have national laws and legal decisions override foreign nations' laws and decisions affecting US legal residents, including fantasies with labels such as international law; to have no public funds, including tax entitlements, used for religious practices; to all well-reasoned additional rights not described herein
• requiring creators of sufficiently harmful negative externalities to pay at least the full costs of those externalities
• banning felony convicts from government employment paying more than half the median household income
• banning financial crime felony and misdemeanor convicts from government employment paying more than half the median household income
• banning former or current executives from any corporation subject to regulation from ever being employed as regulators
• banning government and or labor union interference in employer firings of employees for criminal acts and or documented poor job performances
• banning federal foreign aid to foreign governments, quasi-governmental entities, and foreign government employees--except aid for food, family planning, disease prevention, medical treatment, and defense from aggression
• banning abortion after the twenty-sixth week of pregnancy, except in cases of rape, incest or likely serious health results
• sharing sacrifices by eliminating intellectual property rights during any calendar war year having at least 600 US casualties of foreign enemy violence or defense spending greater than 5.8 percent of GDP.
• making all food organism genes and designs public domain
• banning statutes of limitations on crimes, except for crimes committed by individuals under age 16 and individuals expected to die before completing criminal trials.
• requiring monetary policies to maximize overall ethical benefit to US citizens
• requiring the federal government to set national education standards for non-elective public school courses, test the standards, and provide reports of results--requiring report card inclusion of results
• banning civil judgments and criminal charges against individuals for crimes committed by their relatives, except when such individuals have been participants or negligent of legal duties
• banning unpaid internships at corporate and government entities, requiring at least minimum wage pay at all such entities
• banning corporations from paying less than 40 percent of the nationwide median hourly wage for any United States work performed
• banning any multinational corporation operating in the US from operating in the US if they pay hourly wages below 40 percent of the mean hourly wage in any country they operate
• banning a federal budget surplus in any year with a trade deficit
• banning pay-as-you-go and cut-as-you-go federal budget laws
• banning employers from issuing explicit or implied work related threats to employees to vote or not vote for candidates or legislation
• disbaring prosecutors when a preponderance of evidence indicates they have engaged in prosecutor misconduct
• banning government entities from punishing anyone for their non-compliance with the unethical religious beliefs of others
• banning courts from giving weight to religious beliefs as excuses to break laws
• requiring the federal government to prevent financial intermediaries from extracting more than 3.1 percent of GDP
• banning the creation and use of entities to evade anti-corruption laws 
• banning immunity from lawsuits for judges, legislators, and all other government employees for their illegal actions
• permitting majority house approval to require individuals working for government, working for corporations, working for nonprofits or attending schools to receive specified, approved vaccinations as a condition of continued employment or attendance
• banning privatization of public retirement funds
• requiring private employer provided retirement funds to be employee controlled and invested in index funds
• banning anyone with net wealth greater than 15 times median household wealth or annual income greater than eight times the median national income of full-time full year workers from renouncing their United States citizenship, applying hard labor and the death penalty to violators
• banning marriages between first, second, and third degree biological relatives
• establishing that foreign and multinational entities have trading privileges with US entities only when well-reasoned
• banning vaginal intercourse and assisted reproductive technologies between first, second, and third degree biological relatives
• banning anyone having polygamous relationships from government employment and government means tested benefits
• banning non-citizens practicing polygamy from obtaining citizenship
• excluding foreign and multinational entities from domestic free speech protections
• banning non-special education pre-first grade schooling
• prohibiting peacetime requirements for non-elected official females under the age of 46 to register for military drafts
• requiring civil suit plaintiffs against nuclear energy plant construction and operation to prove their cases beyond a reasonable doubt
• banning new government printed publications, including legislation, from containing irrelevant ad hominem attacks such as hate, pinko, phobia, racist, extremist, far left, and far right, along with other false and irrelevant labels such as centrist, offensive, and moderate
• banning the sale of foreign entity financial instruments in the United States and to United States citizens, except those from Australia, New Zealand, and NATO nations.
• banning foreign governments from donating to United States non-profit entities.
• giving Congressional committee chairs the right to start and conduct hearings 
• excluding speech that reports legal and classified military tactics, strategies, positions, and technologies to likely enemies from free speech protections
• requiring individuals convicted of financial crimes having harms exceeding 15 times median annual per capita income to serve at least 13 years in prison, with violent felons as cellmates
• permitting ex post facto prosecutions and convictions for financial crimes exceeding median annual household income
• banning government entities from engaging in or encouraging high-risk loans
• banning military drafts, except for the defense of Australia, New Zealand, and NATO nations
• banning individuals with non-overturned felony convictions or any financial crime convictions exceeding $2,000 in harms from voting
• banning judges, elected officials, political appointees, and any government employee above the GS-9 pay grade from accepting gifts, paid trips, and non-governmental remuneration from anyone
• returning the stolen TV and radio portions of the electromagnetic spectrum back to their rightful owners: the people, using the frequencies for weather, obituaries, local events, emergency information, non-political vocational education, and nonpolitical, non-religious music
• banning disparate impact policies by government entities and publicly traded corporations
• removing or replacing all elements of the constitution contradicting the prescriptions herein
• implementing nationwide occupational licensing portability
• prohibiting congresspersons and federal appointees from having publicly funded security details larger than five individuals
• regulating domain registrars, internet service providers, cable companies, and telephone corporations as public utilities, including protecting freedom of political speech
• permitting majority House vote to require legal quarantines and public N-95 mask wearing
• requiring a mandatory minimum sentence of lifetime 80 hours per week hard labor for stealing, misappropriating or defrauding government funds exceeding $700,000
• prohibiting current and former elected officials and political appointees from receiving any remuneration for endorsing any for-profit product, service or enterprise
• Prohibiting severance remuneration to government employees
• banning marriage for individuals under the age of 16 and prohibiting any form of marriage that does not include a right to divorce
• placing federal law enforcement under the elected attorney general
• requiring majority House approval for presidents to fire inspectors general
• prohibiting government entities from giving funds or government paid labor to political parties or candidates
• banning individuals having net assets greater than ten times median household wealth from holding federal office and federal political appointments
• making due process within the United States apply to only those legally in the United States
• Requiring the firing or resignation of all federal elected officials and political appointees older than their 69th birthday
• banning migration into the United States
• prohibiting government funded medical, technology, and natural science entities from producing and spreading privately paid or government funded political propaganda
• requiring fines and other punishments large enough to deter unethical illegal behavior 
• banning arms sales to North African and Southwest Asian entities
• requiring government mandated insurance to include expected value considerations based on previous incidents and safety violations
• banning current and former elected officials and political appointees from receiving remuneration from companies receiving government contracts
• banning spouses, along with the first, second, and third degree relatives of current and former judges, elected officials and political appointees, from receiving remuneration from companies receiving government contracts, except as part of a full-time full-year annual salary at less than the median annual salary of full-time full-year workers
• requiring a mandatory minimum of 2,800 hours working in a meat processing factory for financial crime convictions exceeding $25,000 in damages
• banning current and former elected officials and political appointees from creating charitable foundations and from serving on the boards of charitable foundations
• banning lobbyists from bundling political contributions
• requiring 80 percent Congressional approval for declarations of war or for authorizations of military force exceeding 13 days
• requiring annual reauthorizations for declarations of war or authorizations of military force by 68 percent of voters.
• banning government entities from participating in counter insurgency wars exceeding 160 days
• requiring that government licensing prevent the formation of monopolies and oligopolies, except highly regulated monopolies and oligopolies sufficiently beneficial to national security, public safety or the public ethical interest
• creating a federal non-joint marriage alternative, making property non-communal, prohibiting joint savings accounts and other joint financial instruments
• prohibiting laws that restrict employers from researching the criminal backgrounds of applicants and employees
• striking Tenth Amendment words after the word constitution, replacing them with "belong to ethical, self-determining citizens"
• banning corporations and government contractors from donating to political campaigns, from donating to entities employing former elected officials and those officials' spouses and first degree relatives
• banning government elected officials and appointees from receiving loans, except housing and vehicle loans under seven times their gross annual government salary
• banning US entities from owning assets exceeding 15 times US median household income in China, India, Russia, South America, Africa, Central America, Caribbean countries, Southwest Asian countries, and Muslim majority countries, punishing violators with a mandatory minimum sentence of at least five years hard labor
• banning the sending of armed US mercenaries and or armed US military personnel to foreign civil wars and guerrilla wars
• giving a House majority vote the right to order as many citizens as beneficial to receive vaccines
• firing all current year judges, banning them from future public office
• prohibiting bankruptcy liability limitations on businesses that at one time had an enterprise value greater than $400,000 and a preponderance of evidence suggests that owners or executives engaged in wage, health, financial, immigration or environmental felony acts relevant to running the business
• requiring random selection of corporate bankruptcy judges from all bankruptcy judges within 600 miles
• prohibiting granting US law exemptions to foreign and multinational entities
• removing the $20 clause
• banning employment contracts exceeding 365 days in length
• banning antitrust exemptions to businesses paying more than the median annual household income in annual remuneration to any entities 
• banning the fixing of United States currency to precious metals
• banning tax-exempt status to entities paying any individual, except physicians, more than twice the median household income per year in all forms of remuneration
• banning judges, elected officials, and government employees above the G-8 level from traveling on private jets
• last updated September 22, 2024

Election Policy Recommendations

Campaign finance reform: Give US born, non-felon, non-government employee, non-government contractor employee, non-cryptocurrency owner, non-financial bailout recipient adult citizens $120 once every two years, to donate anonymously, electronically to campaigns of a) US political candidates having wealth and adjusted gross incomes below five times the national adult median, who do not belong to political parties and do not take annual donations above $800 from any entity or b) US political parties not taking annual donations greater than $800 from any single entity and have neither candidates nor employees having gross incomes greater than five times the national adult median and or wealth greater than five times the national mean adult wealth.

Ban elected officials and political appointees from owning financial investments, except US cash, savings accounts, and checking accounts.

Require political campaign contributions to be anonymous and electronic. Prohibit political campaigns from gathering information on individual donations.

Ban campaign contributions from corporations.

Remove the campaign contributions box from tax forms. Prohibit government entities from providing political donation matching funds.

Ban individuals owning more than $50,000 in government contractors' financial instruments from making political donations.

Prohibit entities seeking and or receiving government contracts exceeding $50,000 per year from making political donations.

Prohibit any cryptocurrency owning entity, anywhere in the world, from donating to US political entities. Prohibit any entity having investments greater than $10,000 in foreign and or multinational entities from donating to US primarily political entities.

Prohibit individuals, who had greater than $10,000 invested in foreign and or multinational entities, from holding political offices and or political appointments.

Ban government entities from providing money and services for political party primaries.

Require presentation of legal state or federal photo identification issued to citizens for in person voting. 

Require presentation of legal US military identification or US passport to obtain a  mail-in ballot.

Prohibit states, local governments, and election workers from banning and or hindering voter identification requirements.

Prohibit states and local governments from giving voting rights to non-citizens.

Ban current and former military personnel above the 0-4 rank from Federal elected positions and Federal political appointments, except at the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Prohibit current and former intelligence entity employees from government elected positions and political appointments, except at intelligence agencies.

Require states and local governments to publish and distribute publicly funded voters' guides, describing issues and candidates for each public election, giving roughly equal space to each local candidate.

Require candidates for federal and state legislatures to publish at least 12 example bills they will introduce once elected at least 200 days before the next legislative election.

Ban counting of ballots mailed from outside the United States. Ban counting of ballots without US postmarks. 

Ban ballot harvesting, the collection and delivery of ballots by third parties rather than voters and US postal workers. 

Ban convicted felons from voting. Prohibit convicted felons from government elected offices and political appointments, including convicted felons receiving pardons.

Grant first choice of Congressional committee assignment to the representative having the smallest sum of a) political funds raised in the past two years, b) non-governmental income in the past five years, and c) funds spent on their most recent congressional election. Grant second choice of committee assignment to the representative having the second lowest, etc.

Prohibit individuals born outside US states and territories from making US political donations.

Prohibit individuals born outside US states and territories from government elected offices and political appointments.

Require all elected officials to comply with restrictions on ownership of financial instruments and unethical acts prior to taking office.

Ban the disbursement of government funds to political parties, political campaigns, and political candidates--along with their first, second, and third degree relatives by biology and marriage--except as listed on this site.

Ban political donations to political parties, their employees, and their candidates between September 15th and July 15th.

Prohibit any US entity from donating more than $600 over a 60-year period to all organized foreign political entities combined, including donations disguised as sales or purchases or other transfers.

Ban government funding for political insignia, except current year government flags, uniforms, letterheads, publications, photo identifications, and vehicle identifiers.

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

Ban any individual's name from appearing more than once on a ballot.

Ban anyone with a history of mental illness hospitalization from running for political office.

Ban individuals who owed debts to foreign entities exceeding $3,600 in the past 60 years from political positions paying more per year than the local median annual household income per year.

Ban individuals who owed debts to foreign and or multinational entities exceeding $500,000 in the past 99 years from elected offices and or political appointments.

Ban mail-in voting, except during pandemic emergencies and or for individuals receiving monthly Federal payments for physical disabilities. Require mail-in ballots to be postmarked at least nine working days prior to election days.

Require ballot listed judicial and legislative candidates to have lived in the areas they plan to serve for at least a lifetime total of 12 years.

Ban entities from paying voters to vote or not vote.

Prohibit political campaigns from transferring campaign contributions to entities employing, run by or owned by candidates--plus first, second, and third degree relatives of candidates.

Make 99 years hard labor the mandatory minimum sentence for illegal election fraud involving more than five ballots in a single election.

Broaden the definition of lobbying to include conversations with and gifts to elected politicians, political candidates, and political appointees from corporate and nonprofit executives and board members.

Prohibit corporate and nonprofit board members from donating to politicians and political campaigns.

Require write-in candidate capable ballots for all government elected offices.

Permit state and federal elected office candidates to pay themselves up to 65 percent of the US annual median household income from their campaign funds per election.

Ban individuals filing for bankruptcy, receiving student loan forgiveness, and or getting financial asset bailouts for the rest of their lives.

Ban chief decision makers of bankruptcy filing businesses and or bailout receiving businesses from elected offices and political appointments for the rest of their lives.

Hold in person general elections on the first Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays of Novembers.

Prohibit members of government employee unions from elected offices and political appointments.

Require ballet listed candidates for legislatures, the presidency, and the vice presidency to pass multiple choice civil service exams in ethics,  macroeconomics, psychometrics, epidemiology, informal logic, human genetics, grand strategy, antitrust reasoning, and anti-corruption practices. Require similar exams for regulators. Examples of correct answers: 

1. the probability of a fair coin landing heads three times in a row is 12.5 percent.
2. Hamilton's Rule is irrelevant to most public policy issues. 
3. The best conclusion on an issue has the greatest weight of good premises supporting it. 
4. Fallacious premises should not be given weight for or against a conclusion. 
5. A short-term, well targeted stimulus at least equal to seven percent of GDP should be the policy response to a shortfall in demand equaling seven percent of GDP. 
6. Invoking envy is an irrelevant circumstantial ad hominem attack, except when envy itself is the issue being argued. 
7. Intelligence is currently mostly a genetic correlation, plus a little for iodine supplementation, minus some for aging and brain injuries. 
8. A reason why taxes on negative externalities are often better than command and control solutions is that politicians have terrible track records of picking future technologies and specific solutions. 
9. The expected value of an outcome is the probability of an outcome times the value of the outcome. 
10. Egoists take over groups. Altruism and mutualism survive because groups of altruists and mutualists splinter from groups being taken over by egoists. 
11. Altruism towards some often causes greater overall harms to others, especially future generations. 
12. Ethics should mostly focus on producing beneficial long-term consequences. 
13. R naught varies with situations.

Require political appointees to the state and defense departments to pass multiple choice civil service exams on ethics, informal logic, military strategy, and grand strategy. Examples of correct answers: 

1. achieving ethical political goals, while avoiding war, is better.
2. Avoid situations where enemies easily destroy forces piecemeal and with overwhelming mass and destructiveness. 
3. Sending a supply convoy to the Philippines on April 5, 1942 would have been an example of reinforcing defeat, negative expected value, and failure to ignore sunk costs.
4. Minimize enemies. Better to fight enemies one at a time or not at all.
5. Maximize positive expected value allies. Minimize negative expected value fake allies.
6. Avoid tit-for-tat rhetorical grandstanding against foreign groups you have no worthwhile influence over.

Prohibit anyone employed as a violent mercenary from voting in US elections.

Prohibit government elected officials and election candidates and political appointees from using apps that auto delete text messages and or emails after reading.

Require winning candidates in judicial, legislative, and executive elections to quit other money earning activities, except interest earned by bank and credit union accounts, upon taking office.

Prohibit judges, jurors, and defendants, along with their first through third-degree relatives, from giving gifts to prosecutors and donations to the political campaigns of prosecutors.

Prohibit lawyers, plaintiffs, and defendants, along with their first through third-degree relatives, from giving gifts to judges and donations to the political campaigns of judges.

Prohibit candidates for political offices from running for more than one office at a time.

Eliminate straight-ticket check boxes from ballots.

Require judges to run as independents. Prohibit judges and judicial candidates from publicly endorsing political candidates other than themselves. Prohibit judges and judicial candidates from donating to political campaigns. Prohibit judges from knowingly hearing cases involving their first through fourth degree relatives, along with knowingly hearing cases involving plaintiffs and defendants the judges have socialized with for more than two minutes. Prohibit judges from making decisions based on religious rules during trials and hearings. Prohibit judges committing the acts in the previous two sentences from holding current and future elected offices.

Prohibit individuals born outside US states and territories from voting in US government elections.

Require testing for APOE4 genes of above age 47, polling above 20 percent state and federal election candidates. Require public reporting of homozygous carriers.

Prohibit elected officials and political appointees from holding more than one office at a time.

Prohibit employees of and or investors in foreign and or multinational entities from voting in US elections.

JT Fournier, last updated November 9, 2024