• @Laurentide
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    83 months ago
    • Democratize the workplace.

    There are probably many ways you could go about this: Requiring that employees have a representative on the board of all corporations, forcing companies to give a certain amount of equity to employees, all businesses have to be worker co-ops, maybe some kind of automatic unionization? The point is to give workers more say in how businesses are run and a fairer cut of the value they produce, which would probably end up fixing some of the other things on this list as a byproduct.

    • News reporting must be factual and clearly distinguishable from opinion and other non-news programming.

    Something needs to be done about deliberate propaganda and misinformation. I’m not sure what the answer is here, but maybe having some rules for what can be called “news” would be a start.

    • Enumerated right to bodily autonomy

    This would cover abortion, prostitution, and marijuana consumption, and would also cover many forms of trans healthcare that are currently under attack. Speaking of which…

    • Strengthened protections for minorities, including legal recognition of trans and intersex people. Something like the Equal Rights Amendment but for all minorities. Let’s explicitly get it into law that you can’t discriminate based on something people are born with.

    I don’t agree with merging the House and Senate; uncapping the House fixes the proportionality issue and the Senate is a useful check to ensure that smaller states still have a voice.

    Adding 5% to the highest tax bracket seems way too low. There should be a new top bracket with a rate so high it’s almost confiscatory; anyone earning that much is a resource hoarder and should be made to share with the rest of society. We used to have a top tax rate of 95%, so this isn’t unrealistic.

    Banning tax prep is redundant if the IRS is calculating it for you, and I wouldn’t want to outright ban it for those whose financial situations may be complicated enough to actually need it.

    Why are we including a ban on tipping? I feel like we’re getting lost in the details here. This should be a shorter list of high-level changes. If you don’t like tipping, wouldn’t it be better to do something about employers not giving fair wages in general?

    • @3volver@lemmy.worldOP
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      13 months ago

      I don’t agree with merging the House and Senate

      I’ve read this several times and I understand it. What I’ve also read several times is “this will never happen” which I understand as well.

      The funniest thing is that with congress the way it currently is, none of this has the slightest chance of actually happening. Thus I keep “Merge the senate into the house” because it’s the only way any of this would change. Previously I had “Abolish the senate” which I thought would be unfair to all the current senators. 2 senators per state and the filibuster are why nothing is changing.