Your own "New Deal"

[TNF]

Hypothetical scenario time.

Four years ago, an economic collapse of gargantuan proportions enveloped the nation. The incumbent President and Congress, unable to deal with the problems that have resulted, have been thrown out by the voters. You were one of the beneficiaries of this -- your party capitalized on the discontent with the incumbent and "business as usual" to a careening victory in last year's Presidential election. With nearly 60 percent of the voting public behind you, over 300 seats in the House of Representatives, a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and control of 3/4ths of state legislatures and Governor's mansions, it is clear that you have been entrusted with a mandate from the voting public unlike any other in recent memory.

But you don't have a lot of time. Parties occupying some of the same space (right or left) although more extreme than your own, have also benefited from the crash, electing members of the House and the Senate, and capturing at least a few Governor's mansions and state legislatures. The opposition, while wounded by their association with the previous collapse, is also well funded and could mount a comeback if you fail to live up to the expectations your base has of you, as well. You must act -- but how?

In this scenario, you have the ability to enact 15 different policy proposals. This number is taken from the major pieces of legislation or actions taken during the 'First Hundred Days' of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Bear in mind that your party has commanding control of the House, the Senate, and state legislatures, so even constitutional amendments are an option here. How would you enact policies to counteract the crisis? You can assume that the general character of the crisis is not unlike the Great Depression of the 1930s and act accordingly.

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

1. Amend Constitution so money is not speech
2. Crack down of fascist & far-right parties and paramilitaries
3. Guaranteed jobs for all
4. UHC
5. Basic minimum income
6. Govt.-funded soup kitchens & homeless centers in all cities
7. Free school lunch nationwide
8. Abolish NCLB and similar programs such as Common Core
9. Non-Aggression Doctrine: U.S. does not have the right to invade nations unless we have determined they intend to attack first
10. Automatic voter registration at birth & provide ID to all citizens
11. Abolish Electoral College
12. End Cuban embargo
13. Embargo Russia
14. Helping Hand Doctrine: US will give monetary and political aid to developing democracies but will not try and dictate government policy
15. Begin large-scale programs to make green energy the primary form of energy by 2100

I was kind of flying by the seat of my pants so apologies if that seemed kind of random.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

1. Universal health care
2. Nationalization of the banks
3. Basic income
4. Massive federal funding for post-scarcity initiative (automation of jobs, fancy 3D printing, etc.)
5. Constitutional amendment abolishing money in politics (only public financing)
6. Nationalization of the energy industry and transition from fossil fuels to green energy
7. Housing for everyone
8. Voter registration for everyone and abolition of voter ID
9. Abolition of Electoral College
10. Repeal 2nd Amendment (assuming I could get that passed even with supermajorities)
11. Overhaul/simplification/opening up of immigration system
12. End vouchers and shift government support away from charter schools and towards public schools
13. Free higher education
14. Free high-speed internet
15. End to War on Drugs and legalization of pot

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

1. Order an immediate ceasing of all military operations in Iraq and Syria.
2. Issue an executive order demanding the immediate deportation of any illegal immigrant who publically identifies their immigration status.
3. Pardon all non violent drug offenders imprisoned on charges related to marijuana.
4. Officially end the War on Drugs.
5. Immediately stop all warrantless wiretaps and document seizures.
6. Order an immediate ceasing of all flights to regions with documented Ebola outbreaks.
7. Increase American humanitarian aid to West Africa to fight Ebola.
8. Place increased numbers of military personnel on the American border.
9. Pass a Constitutional Amendment that would establish a flat income tax, rate yet to be determined.
10. Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.
11. Pass a Constitutional Amendment legalizing Same-Sex marriage.
12. End the embargo on Cuba.
13. Officially recognize Russian control of Crimea, independence for Somaliland, Catalonia (if they want it) and other national sovereignty movements.
14. Pass an amendment requiring a Declaration of War/Congressional resolution before any and every military action undertaken by the President.
15. Establish a committee to investigate a way to establish a single payer, fiscally sound healthcare system (assuming Obamacare has been solidly established and is ready to implode).

[Redalgo]

1. Collectivization of non-personal property; managed by citizens on contractual basis
2. Conversion of all firms into producer co-ops and sole proprietorships
3. Basic income indexed to minimum cost of living estimates
4. Limits to income disparity within every firm
5. Electoral reform - proportional representation, ranked choice voting, public financing, etc.
6. Creation of Investigative Branch, placing technocrats and universities in supporting roles
7. Repeating, twenty-year cycle for rewriting the constitution
8. Phase out Social Security and Medicare
9. Nationalization of nuclear sector / public works project for replacing coal-fired plants
10. Robust funding for foreign aid and humanitarian interventions
11. Robust funding for NASA
12. Revisit healthcare reform
13. Tax reforms - code simplification, no deductions, payroll and corporate taxes eliminated
14. Reduce defense spending by at least half
15. Significantly increase income taxes across the board

Other big changes come to mind, as well, but are not relevant to the scenario TNF provided.

[Clarence Boddicker]

This sounds pretty good to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZ5bx9AyI4

[Grumpier Than Thou]

1. Implement UK-style universal healthcare.
2. Expand social welfare to include a "basic needs" program so that those on the program will have access to a guaranteed source of income as well as federal housing.
3. Enact progressive taxation rate that tops 90% for the top income bracket.
4. Eliminate all foreign military operations.
5. Open borders completely -- allow everyone entering simply to register with a national database, then give them full citizenship.
6. End war on drugs, legalize and heavily tax all drugs for recreational use.
7. Ban all automatic weapons, and make background checks + mental health screenings mandatory for everyone who seeks to purchase non-automatic weapons.
8. Abolish electoral college as well as voter ID laws.
9. Ban corporations from funding political campaigns, implement an individual donor cap of political campaigns at around $500 per person.
10. Nationalize banks, arrest everyone involved in 2008 financial crisis.
11. Ban the NSA and similar entities from wiretapping citizens.
12. Remove military weaponry from civilian police forces.
13. Reform public education so that teachers are essentially paid like doctors.
14. Free college tuition for everyone.
15. On top of guaranteed income, raise minimum wage to $13.60/hr.

[SWE]

1. Take the 500 largest corporations and banks into public ownership. Put them under democratic control of Representatives elected by the workers.

2. Fund mass public works programs

3. Increase the minimum wage to $15/hr and establish a guaranteed minimum income

4. Implement Single-payer health care

5. Shorten the workweek with no loss in pay and benefits

6. Repeal all anti-union legislation like Taft-Hartley

7. Create a more progressive tax structure. Increase taxes on the top income brackets, raise the estate tax, abolish all federal sin taxes.

8. Slash the military budget

9. Provide free federal housing to all homeless citizens.

10. Provide free public education from pre-k through college

11. Repeal free trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA

12. Massive public investment in alternative energy

13. Begin implementin FDR's Second Bill of Rights

14. End the War on Drugs. Legalize the sale of all drugs.

15. Open the borders, provide amnesty to all illegal immigrants.

[Maistre]

11. Pass a Constitutional Amendment legalizing Same-Sex marriage.

Why is that needed at this point?

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

1 guaranteed minimum income
2 free housing
3 free universities
4 single-payer healthcare (which covers all forms of gender therapy)
5 abolish most existing welfare programs and the min. wage (only if the above four pass obv)
6 radical geo-engineering projects to unilaterally combat global warming
7 reform intellectual-property laws
8 free public transportation available to every american
9 end the war on drugs
X repeal the patriot act etc, strict congressional oversight over the nsa and cia
E integrate all schools by race and income
10 make a second attempt at the equal rights amendment (but this time include orientation, gender, etc)
11 laws against hate-speech
12 overturn citizens united
13 move to a mixed-member proportional parliamentary system

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

11. Pass a Constitutional Amendment legalizing Same-Sex marriage.

Why is that needed at this point?

To get the matter over with at this point. I'd rather see the concept of state sanctioned marriages abolished, but I don't think I could get that through, even in Rooseveltian conditions.

[DC Al Fine]

I'm not a fan of big lists, so here's my top 3

1) Replace the welfare state (except health and education) with minimum incomes
2) Replace prison time with caning for less serious offenses like break & enter.
3) Outlaw abortion

There's a few other things I'd like to do with development and public transit, but I'd consider my presidency a massive success if the above 3 were implemented.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

1. Guaranteed basic income enacted for all.  This would cover sustenance, a clothing allowance, climate controlled housing with bedrooms for primaries and dependents, and telephone service. 

2. Federal minimum wage raised to $15/hr and adjusted quarterly for inflation.

3. Free public education extended to public institutions of higher learning.

4. Single-payer national health service. 

5. Six weeks paid vacation for all full-time workers (30 or more hours per week)

6. Annual wage ceiling set at $35,000,000 and annually adjusted for inflation.

7. Public campaign financing can not be opted out of.  Individual contributions not to exceed $100. 

8. Sweeping protections for unions from firing during a strike. 

9. Wal-Mart dissolved into dozens of individual companies and fined for estimated total amount of unequal pay to all female employees over the duration of their corporate existence, to be divided and made able to be claimed by current and former female Wal-Mart employees.

10. Gender-equal pay.  Women's salaries must be raised to equal men's in the same or comparable position, effective immediately.

11. Corporate personhood eliminated. 

12. Churches and church run establishments will pay property taxes, no exceptions. 

13. All oil companies valued over $10 billion dissolved.

14. National energy infrastructure transformed into government-run solar, geothermal, nuclear, and hydroelectric plants, with automatic hiring preference given to former employees of nation's largest oil conglomerates.

15. Transformation of continental rail into high speed. 

*Short and long-term costs of reforms to be estimated, and progressive tax rate adjusted to all citizens and/or households making $250,000 a year or more. 

[Gass3268]

All of these are Constitutional Amendments:

1. Right to a Job Amendment
2. Right to be Earn a Living Wage Amendment
3. Right of the Individual to Farm and Make a Living
4. Right to be Free from Unfair Competition and Monopolies   
5. Right for every Family to have a Home
6. Right to Great Healthcare
7. Right to be Protected from the Negative Consequences of Old Age, Sickness, Accident, Injury and Unemployment
8. Right to a High Quality Education from Pre-K to Graduate School
9. Right to be Safe from Arms (Repeal of 2nd Amendment)
10. Right to a Clean and Safe Environment 
11. Right to have Your Voice Heard (Repeal of Citizens Untied)
12. Right to Vote (Repeals All ID Laws, Automatic Voter Registration, Moves Election Day to the First Weekend (Sat & Sun) in November) 
13. Right to have Your Vote Count (Abolishes Electoral College, Abolishes the Senate, Expands the House of Representatives with 100 Members Selected by Proportional Representation)
14. Right To Unionize (Collective Bargaining Rights Guaranteed, Card Check Allowed, Right to Work Banned)
15. Right To Love Life (8 weeks paid vacation required, 6 months paid maternity/paternity leave)

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

1) Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing right to life from conception to natural death in every state, territory, and the District of Columbia.
2) Constitutional Amendment abolishing conscription.
3) Repeal the 16th Amendment
4) Privatize the vast majority of industries.
5) Constitutional Amendment banning government surveillance of citizens.
6) Transfer responsibilities for education to local communities.
7) End the Federal War on Drugs
End all overseas military engagements and sell all foreign military bases.
9) End all foreign aid.
10) Condemn Israel for it's treatment of Palestinians.
11) Condemn Saudi Arabia for it's general disregard for human rights.
12) End sanctions against Cuba and Iran.
13) End militarization of Police departments.
14) Constitutional Amendment requiring a balanced budget
15) Abolish the Federal Reserve.

[DC Al Fine]

All of these are Constitutional Amendments:

1. Right to a Job Amendment
2. Right to be Earn a Living Wage Amendment
3. Right of the Individual to Farm and Make a Living
4. Right to be Free from Unfair Competition and Monopolies   
5. Right for every Family to have a Home
6. Right to Great Healthcare
7. Right to be Protected from the Negative Consequences of Old Age, Sickness, Accident, Injury and Unemployment
8. Right to a High Quality Education from Pre-K to Graduate School
9. Right to be Safe from Arms (Repeal of 2nd Amendment)
10. Right to a Clean and Safe Environment 
11. Right to have Your Voice Heard (Repeal of Citizens Untied)
12. Right to Vote (Repeals All ID Laws, Automatic Voter Registration, Moves Election Day to the First Weekend (Sat & Sun) in November) 
13. Right to have Your Vote Count (Abolishes Electoral College, Abolishes the Senate, Expands the House of Representatives with 100 Members Selected by Proportional Representation)
14. Right To Unionize (Collective Bargaining Rights Guaranteed, Card Check Allowed, Right to Work Banned)
15. Right To Love Life (8 weeks paid vacation required, 6 months paid maternity/paternity leave)

I'm curious, how would you define some of your more ambiguous phrases?

What is?...

a) "great healthcare"
b) "good education"
c) "living wage"

[nolesfan2011]

Not gong to be super specific over how each thing is passed (constitutional amendment, via the congress as a bill or amendment, executive order or the courts) but list of policy things.

1: Universal single payer healthcare, European/Nordic style
2: A guaranteed minimum income for all citizens and a living wage indexed to inflation so that it continues to go up (or down) as the value of a $ changes. So it would start at say $15-$17 per hour.
3: Free college tuition/higher ed, just like Germany has
4: Youth emancipation and suffrage act (would lower the voting age to 16, eliminate a "drinking age", change laws related to youths being able to have jobs and work, have control of their own money and engage in banking and financial transactions and matters, sign contracts etc. would also end compulsory schooling laws, eliminate selective service, ban curfews based upon age and other forms of age discrimination against  youths both in practice and in written law, just like the civil rights act did for african-americans). Basically a youth civil rights bill with anti-child abuse provisions.
5: Legalize all currently "illegal" drugs and place a flat 5% tax on them, get rid of scheduling and the DEA.
6: Cease unconstitutional civil liberties violations and spying on American citizens and innocent non-citizens. Scale back the NSA, CIA, FBI etc., repeal the patriot act and enshrine the protection of civil liberties in the digital, modern era in law. Also declassify massive amounts of documents kept on innocent people and show them what is in their files. Prosecute those who broke the law
7: End CIA blacksite prisons, rendition, torture etc. close Gitmo, change how the CIA operates, prosecute those guilty of war crimes and human rights violations in court.
8: Pass a law saying money isn't speech, fix the campaign finance system once and for all, hard caps on donation amounts etc. repeal citizens united and make other changes
9: New ERA with protections for both women and LGBT persons in regards to equal and civil rights matters.
10: New stimulus program and Civilian Conservation Corps type group to do infrastructure improvements and repairs on a massive scale
11: Criminal Justice/Sentencing/Warrant/Prison reform (complicated but that's the idea, release non violent offenders from Prison etc.)
12: Education reform (this is complicated but this is just the vague part of it, get rid of NCLB, Common Core etc.)
13: Reinstate Glass-Steagall, and put in place other real Wall St reform legislation, along with prosecuting illegal bankers.
14: Massive anti-poverty and anti-homelessness measures
15: Repeal NAFTA, MFT status and other awful trade policies, put in place fair trade policies

[H. Ross Peron]

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.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

(UK focused)



1) Revoke Right to Buy, immediately start social home building and easing up height restrictions. Instate taxes on 2nd and 3rd homes.

2) Invest in enough public transport and ride-shares to ensure nobody living in a city or large town feels it necessary to own automobiles.

3) Break up corporate utilities and transfer them over to democratically run co-operatives.

4) Introduce revenue-neutral carbon tax, and use it to lower income and corporate taxes.

5) Phase out coal and end all subsidies for the fossil fuel sector, as well as divesting all public money from fossil companies. Require all future homes to have solar panels and insulated fully. Build an additional power line to Denmark.

6) Abolish the House of Lords, introduce PR-STV to local and national parliaments, as well as Regional Assemblies. Reduce term of office to three years.

7) Propose a complete reworking of the UN, abolition of the WTO, IMF and World Bank; introduction of international Labour Laws. Stop using veto and support abolition of veto and ascension of further countries to the Permanent club. Bring democracy to EU as well.

8 ) Scrap Trident immediately and begin support for a consolidated EU defence force.

9) Bring in guaranteed living wage.

10) Abolish single farm payment, abolish factory farming. Tax meat and sugar; and start to phase out meat in school canteens etc (hey, these don't have to be popular ideas right?) Ban neonicotinoids as well, while we're at it.

11) Introduce powerful inquest into sexual abuse in all elements of public and private sectors immediately.

12) Invest in flood defences, but allow some sparsely populated areas to be reclaimed by wetlands. Replace tarmac with water permeable materials where possible. Reforest riversides etc.

13) Nationalise railways, bring ticketless travel to all public transport routes and electrify all remaining non-electrified railways.

14) Bring dentistry, optics and social care into the NHS umbrella.

15) Cap legal fees, end minimum sentences, phase out most prison sentances and decriminalise drugs.

[Gass3268]

All of these are Constitutional Amendments:

1. Right to a Job Amendment
2. Right to be Earn a Living Wage Amendment
3. Right of the Individual to Farm and Make a Living
4. Right to be Free from Unfair Competition and Monopolies   
5. Right for every Family to have a Home
6. Right to Great Healthcare
7. Right to be Protected from the Negative Consequences of Old Age, Sickness, Accident, Injury and Unemployment
8. Right to a High Quality Education from Pre-K to Graduate School
9. Right to be Safe from Arms (Repeal of 2nd Amendment)
10. Right to a Clean and Safe Environment 
11. Right to have Your Voice Heard (Repeal of Citizens Untied)
12. Right to Vote (Repeals All ID Laws, Automatic Voter Registration, Moves Election Day to the First Weekend (Sat & Sun) in November) 
13. Right to have Your Vote Count (Abolishes Electoral College, Abolishes the Senate, Expands the House of Representatives with 100 Members Selected by Proportional Representation)
14. Right To Unionize (Collective Bargaining Rights Guaranteed, Card Check Allowed, Right to Work Banned)
15. Right To Love Life (8 weeks paid vacation required, 6 months paid maternity/paternity leave)

I'm curious, how would you define some of your more ambiguous phrases?

What is?...

a) "great healthcare"
b) "good education"
c) "living wage"

a) Guaranteed healthcare, most likely nationalized UK style
b) Free schooling from Pre-K to Graduate School
c) High minium wage with a measure that adjusts it to inflation

[AggregateDemand]

1. Negative Income Tax Credit to compensate poor and lower-middle class citizens of majority age for the crushing regulatory burden placed upon their labor. Cost is offset by higher labor force participation, higher consumer spending, and lower Welfare/Unemployment payouts.

2. Single-bracket income tax at 35% rate (15% FICA, 20% General Revenue). Eliminate inequitable graduated tax bracket system. Capital gains rate at 35%, with inflation adjustment and principal exclusion.

3. Defined-benefit Social Security system (built on top of the Negative Income Tax Credit) that encourages the elderly to delay benefits and increase public investment in future generations, rather than impoverishing their progeny.

4. Merge Medicare and Medicaid. Establish single-payer coverage for catastrophic and basic preventive medicine. Scrap Obamacare, except for insurance tax on "cadillac" plans. Reform coverage rules for senior citizens to prevent high-risk experimental procedures on elderly patients. Get long-term care payments system under control.

5. Increase military spending to 5% GDP, and increase the standing force. Encourage STEM training for healthcare and engineering.

6. Federal decriminalization of marijuana. Rescheduling of illegal narcotics.

7. Increase funding for public post-secondary education, but require tuition rates no greater than 25% median household income. Same for primary and secondary education, but require administrative efficiency and higher teacher pay (in some cases).

8. Slash the House of Representatives to 250 members. Increase salary for remaining Representatives and Senators to $275,000. Redistrict.

9. Reduce SNAP benefits back to 2008 levels, and spend the remainder on subsidies for small local growers.

10. Repeal gasoline excise tax, and let states adjust gasoline taxes accordingly. Pay for roads out of the general fund, like other constitutionally enumerated programs.

11. Simplify CAFE: No light-duty passenger vehicles below 20mpg combined. Implement point-of-sale rebates for all new cars, that achieve above 30mpg combined (EPA). $100 per 1mpg above 30mpg, capped at $3,000 per vehicle (60mpg or 60mpge).

[Del Tachi]

1.  Large, TARP-style bailouts for banks and other large corporations
2.  Very large stimulus program, with close to $2 trillion in spending over 10 years primarily consisting of infrastructure projects, large investments in R&D, and tax cuts for small businesses
3.  Make a general commitment to grow discretionary spending over the next 10 years at around the same rate as ideal GDP growth (around 7% per year)
4.  Comprehensive tax reform.  Reform and lower corporate taxes to a flat rate.  Adopt something close to Bowels-Simpson for income taxes.  Make the research and development tax credit permanent.  Reform payroll taxes to cover 90% of all wages, adjusted annually. 
5.  Comprehensive Social Security reform.  Raise retirment age for those born after 1962 to age 72.  Allow for partial private investment.  Include all new state and federal employees in the program.  Use alternate measures of inflation to reduce costs associated with COLA.
6.  Block grant Medicaid to the States with federally-enforced eligibility and minimum assistance requirements.
7.  Completely nationalize public education - all teachers and school administrators become DeptEd employees.  National benchmark standards for K-12 with annual testing as a prerequisite for grade advancement.  Fully implement Common Core.  Eliminate local funding of education.  Ban on charter schools. 
8.  Comprehensive immigration reform.  Allow for one-time blanket amnesty for all current, non-criminal illegal aliens.  Establishment a pathway for citizenship for future illegals.  Pass the DREAM Act.  Create a better guest-worker program. 
9.  Repeal McCain-Feingold.  Consider legislation (most likely a Constitutional amendment) eliminating all government regulation of campaign finance. 
10.  Double the budgets of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, and other government agencies concerned with promoting high culture several times.  Pursue a more robust public broadcasting system, with something like an Americanized BBC being the eventual goal. 
11.  Pass a national voter ID law. 
12.  Increase the budget of the Delta Regional Authority to be roughly the same size as TVA. 
13.  Executive order telling the DOJ to enforce federal marijuana laws in states where pot is legal.  No medical marijuana. 
14.  Implement a comprehensive national plan for energy.  Streamline and standardize the application process for the construction of new nuclear power plants.  Allow for more offshore drilling and drilling on other federal lands.  Large investments in green energy.   
15.  Eliminate the national gasoline tax and replace it with a graduated VMT.

[Yelnoc]

1. 28th Amendment: Jubilee
The day of the ratification of this amendment shall be called Jubilee. All debts of every kind (personal, corporate, state, etc) shall be cancelled. Every fifty years shall be a new Jubilee, in accordance with what G-d commanded the Hebrew, as recorded in the Book of Leviticus.

2. 29th Amendment: Copyright
Copyright protections shall last no longer than the Founding Fathers intended. As the Copyright Act of 1790 states, the authors, musicians, film makers, and other creators shall have sole right to their works for a period of fourteen years, with the option to renew their copyright for another fifteen years. After a period of fourteen or twenty-nine years, the intellectual property in question will enter the public domain. Copyright may not be extended by an legislature or court. Copyright may not be transferred from the author, excepting in the case of death, where it may be transferred to his executor to be disbursed as willed, until the expiration of the existing copyright. Also, no living thing may be copyrighted. These provisions are retroactive, going to effect as soon as this amendment is ratified.

3. 30th Amendment: Excessive Punishment
It shall be unconstitutional to create a law which criminalizes an action or behavior in which a victim cannot be identified. For example, the production, distribution, or consumption of any substance can not be criminalized. It shall be unconstitutional to punish as felons individuals who have not done grievous harm to another. Felons may not be deprived of their voting rights. This amendment shall be applied retroactively.

4. 31st Amendment: Money and Politics
Elections shall be publicly funded. No candidate for any office may accept more than $100 from any individual or entity.

5. 32nd Amendment: Congressional Districts
Congressional districts, as well as other electoral districts and state and local levels, shall be drawn by an unbiased committee in order to ensure communities of common interests are grouped together, underprivileged groups are protected, and our democracy is strengthened. Conspiring to gerrymander shall be a felony. One representative to the US house shall represent no more than 500,000 people, and the number of representatives shall increase according.

6. 33rd Amendment: Voting
All federal elections shall use Instant Runoff Voting. State and local elections may decide their own method of elections, provided the method can determine who a majority of voters support.

7. Legislation encouraging the creation of workers' cooperative through tax breaks, favorable loans, and an education campaign.

8. Legislation strengthening environmental protections, instituting a carbon tax, banning fracking, and investing heavily in renewable energy.

9. Legislation implementing universal healthcare.

10. Legislation replacing all welfare spending (excluding Social Security) with a Basic Income.

11. Legislation implementing a 100% estate tax on wealth over a certain threshold.

12. Legislation drastically raising the income tax on wealthier brackets and creating new brackets to tax the super-wealthy at higher rates.

13. Legislation raising the US minimum wage to $15/hour.

14. Drastically cut military spending.

15. Lift the embargo on Cuba.

[Mordecai]

1. Create a national government-owned health insurance company (public option) that offers a basic, inexpensive catastrophic health insurance plan with mandated rebates and refunds.
2. Repeal the tax incentives and regulations for companies to provide private health insurance coverage.
3. Abolish minimum wages, welfare, and foodstamps; replace with guaranteed minimum income (e.g. $25,000 a year).
4. Provide means-tested school vouchers for poor and working class families to attend accredited community colleges and state universities.
5. Federal student loans can only be used for state universities, can only be used for pre-approved majors (e.g. engineering, physics, chemistry, nursing, education, mathematics, statistics, other sciences, etc.), are income-contingent, repayments are automatically taken out of income, and repayment amounts are adjusted to increase/decrease as income increases/decreases. The balance of the loan is forgiven after either 40 years, at age 67, or at death.
6. Mandate that private health insurance companies advertise their plans on online state exchanges and marketplaces.
7. Re-negotiate all federal contracts with pharmaceutical companies.
8. End the War on Drugs and mandatory minimum sentencing laws, immediately release everyone imprisoned in federal penitentiaries on drug offences.
9. End federal subsidies to the agricultural and oil industries.
10. Amend the Constitution to tie increases of the debt ceiling to the budget.
11. Mandate by law to have either a 401(k) or IRA account if you earn over a certain income threshold (e.g. $50,000). Introduce means-testing of Social Security.
12. Repeal Taft-Hartley.
13. Repeal the Patriot Act.
14. Dismantle and defund the DEA and ATF.
15. Temporarily nationalize the banks and bail them out. Reinstall banking and financial regulations that were repealed by the Republican Congress of the 1990s. Fire everyone in the upper management of the banks and lock them in stocks for people to pelt rotten vegetables at them, then try them and send them to federal prison. De-nationalize the banks.

There are probably other things I'm forgetting but this is what I've come up with so far.

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FDR only passed two amendments, one of which changed the function of government without affecting the rights of the people, so I'm going to limit myself similarly.

1)Stimulus Bill of 2014: Enact a massive stimulus bill, focusing on infrastructure and clean energy. Also, probably institute something like TARP, depending on the specifics of the crisis.

2)Wall Street Reform Bill of 2014: Massive reform to the banking regulatory structure. I'd have to think this out more for specifics, but I'd create an Office of Banking Supervision to regulate all banks with more than say, ten branches (or a certain amount of money). The size of banks would be limited to a much smaller market share (and banks would be broken up as necessary) and banks would have much higher capital requirements. The structure of the Fed would be reformed, and it would no longer have a major role in regulating banks.

3)Universal healthcare: not sure which model I'd try to emulate.

4)Tax Reform Act of 2014: Create three new tax brackets, with a new bracket around $60k, and with earnings above $1 million taxed 50% and earnings above $10 million taxed 60%. Raise the rate somewhat on the four existing brackets that are above $80k. Remove numerous deductions, such as the mortgage deduction, while also getting rid of the AMT. Let the IRS prepare tax returns, but allow individuals the option to prepare their own return instead. Institute a progressive estate tax (along with a parallel gift tax) with multiple brackets. Raise the Social Security tax cap.

5)NDAA for the 2015 fiscal year: Cut military spending, with the long-term goal of cutting it by 1/3.

6)National Curriculum Act: Implement national k-12 curricula, with strong standards for math and science classes; ban intelligent design and require that schools teach evolutionary theories. For non-STEM classes, require schools to cover certain topics.

7)Fair Elections Act: Abolish the FEC in favor of the Fair Elections Administration (FEA), headed by one official. Task the FEA with ensuring that states implement systems that ensure near-universal voter registration with few barriers to voting, and empower the FEA to override states where necessary.

8)Legalization of Marijuana Act: Legalize marijuana, and reduce the criminal penalties for all other drugs.

9)Healthy Food and Families Act: Drastically overhaul the farm subsidies program. Focus on funding healthy options. Fund an educational campaign to encourage healthier eating and exercise.

10)National Employment Act of 2014: Create a federal employment service with goal of matching both "skilled" and "unskilled" unemployed with employers, with a focus on the long-term unemployed and recent college and high school graduates.

11)Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2014: Immigration reform along the lines of the 2013 Senate bill.

12)Anti-trust Act of 2014: Implement anti-trust law aimed at reducing oligopolies, particularly in regards to television and newspapers.

13)Carbon Tax Act: Institute a carbon tax, transition away from coal, and encourage development of renewable energy sources. Create a revenue-neutral fund that taxes gas when prices are low and subsidizes it when prices are high.

Amendment 1: All executive nominees of the President shall take office twenty-eight days after nomination, unless the Senate rejects that nominee by a majority vote. All judicial nominees must receive a confirmation vote within fifty-six days of nomination. The Senate may, by majority vote, delay confirmation of a nominee by an additional twenty-eight days in order to further scrutinize the nominee; the Senate may do this twice for any nominee.

Amendment 2: Congress has the power to regulate political speech, including the ability to set maximum donation limits, but this power must be balanced against First Amendment rights. Organizations are not permitted to engage in political advocacy or campaigning, with the exception of organizations formed for that sole purpose. No individual has the right to anonymously engage in political advocacy.