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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Create federalized unemployment insurance and disability insurance plans with disability payments based on a percentage disability basis.
Require regulatory laws to meet ethical cost-benefit standards.
Repeal the Rural Electrification Act and the Community Reinvestment Act.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ban private tax collection and the sale of tax debts to private entities.
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.
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.
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.
Require employers to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave per every 22 hours worked.
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.
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 side guards on new trucks large enough to have cars slide under their sides.
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.
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.
Ban all government entities from accepting financial donations from foreign and multinational entities.
Repeal Taft-Hartley.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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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