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Since four of the first five answers I've seen are so mild, let me give you what my list would include and tell me if I'm wrong or if I'm missing something:

  • Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those known to have committed child sexual abuse from the Epstein files
  • Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those related to Trump's corruption schemes which are:
    • Stealing oil from Venezuela
    • Insider trading during the current aggressive unprovoked full-scale genocide against Iran, Lebanon and possibly all nations in the Middle East, including US all allied nations in the Middle East except for Israel.
    • Cryptocoin frauds
  • Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those involved in war crimes
  • Designate all detractors of these demands as rape, murder, thievery, and pedophile protectors

  • Establishment of an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate allegations of ICE brutality
  • Retraction of any designation for this protest made as anything other than peaceful
  • Release of every political arrest made during this protest and any protest prior that are still in prison with exception of the Jan 6th Capitol storming
  • Reimprisonment of every pardoned criminal during Trump's presidency

  • An amendment that abolishes the first past the post winner-takes-all system.
    • Instead it should have indirect elections to prevent campaign fraud (so you only elect local leaders, who elect those above them) and an approval voting system, but if that is deemed to radical here, then at least have initial proportional representation, with a majority amount of seats shuffled towards the winning coalition in order to prevent lame duck governance.
    • If indirect elections with approval voting is considered acceptable, I suggest that each for political position one must complete a civil exam created by an independent institution. Failing to pass will result into disqualification for that term's elections.
  • An amendment that guarantees all citizens, including prisoners universal basic income
  • An amendment that guarantees all citizens ownership of basic housing
  • An amendment that guarantees all citizens ownership a basic amount of land that can prove themselves to be Indigenous First Nations US-soil Native American
  • Rewrite the 13th amendment to abolish of slavery in prisons
  • An amendment that secures roaming rights by making any vagrancy and loitering law illegal
    • Have the amendment above include making it illegal to restrict access to gated communities. So no walking or driving around 10-meter-high, kilometer-wide walls.
  • Amendment that guarantees continuous slower traffic paths through faster traffic paths, so walkways > bike lanes > roads.

  • Repeal the Patriot Act
  • Universal Health Care
  • Nationalize all casinos except those owned by native Americans
  • End all sanctions and embargoes on other countries
  • Close down the Board of Peace
  • Close down all ICE death camps
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[โ€“] jtrek@startrek.website 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Off the top of my head ...

  • free public health care for all.
  • forgive all medical debt
  • free public education for all, including college.
  • forgive all student loan debt
  • universal basic income
  • more public housing. Homes are owned by the people who live in them, or the state. No profit seeking private orgs.
  • close the "buy borrow die" loopholes, where people get untaxed loans to access their wealth without paying taxes
  • more tax on the wealthy
  • look into making property tax progressive like income. That is, the first $nnn of your house is untaxed, the next chunk at some percent, the following chunk at a greater percent, and so on.
  • all Republicans removed from office. They are barred from government positions for life, as well as any private role with decision making power.
  • break up mega corps. Disney, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Their current leadership has their wealth seized, and they are barred from leadership positions for life.
  • invest heavily in public transit and safety improvements to existing roadways. Cars are literally killing us as well as sapping our resources.
  • mandatory profit sharing for employees.
  • mandatory pay transparency
  • maximum pay gap between roles. No more janitor making $7/HR while the CEO makes $300/hr
  • accounting hijinks to pretend like your org made no profit, or "they're not employees they're contractors" are punishable by seizure of all wealth and a prohibition from similar roles for life
  • come up with something so venture capitalist bros aren't deciding the future, if the above doesn't somehow fix it.
[โ€“] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago

I would be happy with one guideline: taxpayers should see and feel the impact of their tax dollars.

It feels like that's currently not a priority at all. The govt can just hand the money to some middleman who pockets 90% for a job worth 10%, and no one checks on it. DOGE was the pinnacle of this practice; honestly felt like Elon and Trump said "hey, you know what would be funny?"

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

We need more people like you.

[โ€“] Wilco@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

Forgive medical debt, make collecting on medical debt illegal, and force 10x reimbursement for collections and court fees going back 10 years. Allow amounts to be recouped from personal assets. The courts would need to pay back 10x the legal fees imposed and the corrupt "judges" (actually magistrates, attorneys hired by the courts) would have to pay as well, collection agencies would fold because of these reimbursements and their filthy lawyers would lose their assets.

Repeat this process for all predatory collection systems in the USA. Private Equity firms that steal people's trailers by raising lot fees, Private Equity that take over HOAs to amass fees and put leins on houses ...

[โ€“] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

That's more like it.