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« on: November 15, 2014, 03:23:08 PM »

1. Complete reformation of the existing structure of government in the United States including the current archaic state boundaries with one that simulteneously strengthens the federal government's functions and establishes a single governing authority for metropolitan areas and replace the Presidential system with a Parliamentary system.

2. Similarly the change the methods of election. Reform the Senate to reduce its powers while transforming the House of Representatives to be based on a Mixed-Member Proportional system of election. Ban any and all private funding of elections.

3. Tax reform: eliminate most loopholes/deductions while raising the estate and income taxes along with equalizing capital gains tax rates with income tax rates. Possibly cut the corporate tax rate as an offset.

4. Implement Universal Health Care legislation based on the German multi-payer model.

5. Raise the minimum wage to 12 dollars, with adjustments for local cost of living and tie it to inflation. Give other rights to workers such as guaranteed vacation time, parental leave, and sick time.

6. Implement a minimum income scheme

7. Repeal Taft-Hartley and encourage a German corporatist model of business-labour-government cooperation in the economy

8. Greatly change existing urban and environmental policy through the implementation of a hybrid infrastructure-energy bill. Encourage high-density urban residential construction over sprawl through regulations and subsidies, offer incentives for middle-class families to move back into inner cities, massively expand existing mass transit systems, construct a national high speed rail system, embark on a programme of nuclear power plant construction to double America's nuclear capacity at least, expand research funding into alternative non-Fossil Fuel sources. Similarly expand funding for other scientific research

9. Implement a Finnish educational model with greatly expanded and equalized public education funding and private schools forbidden to charge tuition and only permitted to admit students on the same basis as public schools. Free pre-K and daycare along with free college/grad school dependent upon grades.

10. Revive the WPA, CCC, and other Depression-era government make-work programs especially in the arts. As the Internet and information technology generally makes creating works of art/literature and keeping their copyright much less profitable, it will be more and more necessary for the creation of culture to move beyond the profit model. Of course, only good art should be funded especially with regards to television shows to counter much of the degenerate crap produced on the private channels.

11. Implement stricter banking and financial regulation including restoring Glass-Steagall, increasing punishments for white-collar crime, and a bank tax on "too big to fail" banks. Break the stranglehold of the FIRE sector on the economy.

12. Ban abortion at all stages with an exemption for the preservation of the mother's life

13. End the War on Drugs-legalize marijuana and other soft drugs while decriminalizing possessing harder drugs. Uniform regulation of alcohol, tobacco, and softer drugs

14. Fundamental reform of civil liberties legislation by looking at and abolishing all aspects of the PATRIOT Act and other post 9/11 legislation that are clearly unconstitutional and/or unnecessary. Similarly restrict wiretapping programs. Implement a National ID Card.

15. Create the nucleus of a world government in the form of an economic and political union of the advanced Western liberal democracies with a common currency, fiscal policy, foreign policy, and military. Permit free trade and migration within this union. Give developing democracies such as India and Brazil associate membership and build them as "Arsenals of Democracy" with favourable trade agreements and immigration laws for those countries.

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This -though perhaps with the exception of #12.  
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