The world I want involves the following:
-- free education for all. Sure, also private schools that can charge whatever they want, but they are competing against totally free schools.
-- free health care for all. Sure, also private for profit health care, but this is competing against totally free health care.
-- MBI for every adult. Sure, also private enterprise. This doesn't replace working, it gives a lower level under which you will not fall.
-- bullet trains, cheap or free to use, connecting major city to major city. Smaller trains to get you to the bullet trains, maybe, so the bullet trains only stop in major areas. Sure, also for profit air and maybe even rail competing.
-- legalization and regulation of all recreational drugs
-- self driving cars and safety for pedestrians and bicyclists. I want to be able to walk outside without worrying about being killed.
-- free internet and smart phones for all. Sure, also for profit internet and smart phones.
These are a few of the things I want. What do you want?
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Speedy trials. Removing the bail system. Well funded public defenders. Victim advocate added as a required branch of the justice system. 0 harvard or yale educated white men on the supreme court. Equal rights amendment. Mandatory automatic voter registration.
ReplyDeleteHard tack away from the idea of "money as entity," including but not limited to: (1) Societal repudiation of the Citizen's United reasoning, and (2) Revision of the regulations that bind company administrators to short-term stock-holder profit to the exclusion of (a) long-term building of company value and (b) non-monetary mission statements.
ReplyDeleteHell, I'll just answer:
ReplyDelete* Mandatory voting
* The melting down of all guns
So I wanna be Australia?
Great lists, keep 'em coming! I don't agree with everything, but I don't disagree with any of it enough to spat about it.
ReplyDeleteAlso:
-- Universal opt-out retirement account, not tied to any employer. Something like the fed's TSP, but for everyone.
-- First pass taxes done by the IRS. If you do nothing, you agree. If you don't agree, fill out a form.
William, I love the taxes one so much. 90% (or something) of people could have their taxes done for them, but Republicans want people to contend with it and find it difficult so taxpayers feel the burn.
ReplyDeleteRobert Bohl This one isn't even really motivated by political party: H&R block has a pretty powerful lobby.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's both. Republicans definitely want taxes to be hard and in your face. I've seen Republicans talk about how important it is that Americans be forced to feel the pain of the taking of their taxes.
ReplyDeleteTrue.
ReplyDeleteOh gosssssh yes. These.
ReplyDeleteAlso: a keener concept of government being an entity that speaks for the voiceless. Anyone who is disproportionately silenced. Children. The disabled who are unable to speak. The environment. The public commons. The future. We already have bits and pieces of this, but I want it as an ethical goal and not to have to justify who it makes a profit for, or to have to fight for basic human rights (ERA, I'm looking at you.) Profit alone leads to lead poisoning or public lands being destroyed by extraction industry.
William Nichols Does Intuit spend even more on lobbying than H&R, or have I got my wires crossed?
ReplyDeleteNot sure! I guess we could look it up.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Austin Looks like you are right. Either way, the reason we don't have auto taxes is the lobbying.
ReplyDeletenpr.org - Episode 760: Tax Hero
ReplyDeleteI continue to wish I liked podcasts.
ReplyDeleteIt's kinda just timeshifted radio... if you never liked that, than of course you wouldn't like podcasts. If you did, than maybe your tastes have changed?
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