/r/50501 Mirror

For other countries yes, but the US won't vote again

Tax All religions, it's a business. Make everyone pay into Social Security, no income caps. Move retirement age back to 65 for everyone, and early (reduced benefits) to 62.

I refuse to believe any of this is actually endorsed or supported by the Democratic Party of The United States.

It's all great. And I'd love to be wrong. But there's no way.

Lmao. Unless step number one includes some guillotines, you might as well be asking people if they'd like to go to paradise.

Pure fantasy.

Sounds great.

Hope you've got your guns, because you'll need them for any of that.

Voting is just for deciding what colour tie your right-wing authoritarianism wears.

I'm impressed with this, someone has clearly given it more than 30s of thought

treating unrealized gains used for collateral as income avoids most of the complicated issues around wealth taxes while still enforcing that you have to pay your fair share if you want to live a life of luxury.

Congressional pay caps seem like a good way to align their incentives with helping all their constituents rather than just the donors and median mean that passing a real minimum wage law is to their direct benefit. No idea how you would get around the increased risk of bribery though.

Fixing gerrymandering, replacing fptp and scrapping the electoral college evens out the voting power so an election is less likely to be swung imby a handful of close districts in swing states.

Striking down Citizens united would (could?) clean up campaign finance making it harder for fossil fuel lobbies (for example) to purchase power.

I don't know how feasible it is given some of it is federal, some of it is state level and I imagine some of it requires ammending the constitution, but I would consider any candidate who ran on some/all of these to be a good choice focused on fixing the root causes of a lot of the problems the US is facing.

That minimum wage pretty slim for a wish list...

Like I get the whole moralistic bent about not wanting to pay representatives big incomes relative to their constituents because politician bad and “they should be doing it for the pride of serving”, or like term limits because “I don’t like these politicians and they keep getting reelected/ serve life terms.”

But realistically, if you want skilled professionals in a field, you need to pay them competitively and offer long term career prospects. Otherwise you’re going to only get people who take the job as a stepping stone to another position, like a high paying job at a big company they passed a bunch of laws to help, or who can make money in other ways.

As it stands right now, the whole stock trading thing is largely a result of how little congress people are payed relative to the importance of the position. Like, sure, it’s a six figure salary with a great benefits package, but, that’s peanuts compared to what a modern private sector executive make, even a mediocre one.

If anything, congress people should probably have their wages increased significantly.

Capping congressional salary that low is a bad idea - especially with the cost of maintaining homes in their district and DC both. It heavily encourages corruption.

I had a good family friend who was a small business owner. He was the local AC repair guy who worked super hard and built a thriving business. He eventually got into politics and was elected to the US House of Representatives. I was proud of my friend, because while we didn't agree on a lot of political issues, he was fundamentally a good person and would be different than all the corrupt assholes in government.

He quickly ran into financial issues trying to maintain 2 households - especially since his wife was essentially forced to leave her job to be with him full-time as he went back and forth between his district and DC.

So what did he do? He started accepting help from donors. Then special interests. He started becoming more and more beholden to them as they supported him, and he started getting a taste of the Washington lifestyle.

Now he's as corrupt as corrupt gets, and I'm ashamed to have called him a friend. Motherfucker even voted against election certification on January 6th.

I truly believe that if Congress paid better, more "Average Joe" politicians could thrive in Washington without having to take dirty money, and my family friend may have been saved.

It's cute you think there will be another election. I mean, there will be elections ... but they won't mean anything. The idiotic half of the US is realizing too late that the "conservative" party is the party of evil.

All of this should be simple for any sane politician to get on board with, and yet it's somehow revolutionary.

Keeping congressional salaries that low would encourage corruption and possibly discourage non-corrupt candidates with valuable experience, but I otherwise agree.

$20 minimum wage is still too low, but better than nothing. Decent outline. Just have to get someone that gives a shit about people into office.

Giving pledge? How about a taking pledge.

Proposed wealth tax:

• 1% over $1M
• 10% over $10M
• 100% over $100M

The proceeds fund UBI. MMW we will have 100x as many millionaires after doing this.

Make the government fearful of the people.

I support this platform. Expect nothing less, accept nothing less. Look at the pipe dreams on the other side of the aisle they've been able to enact. Let's swing the hammer hard the other way now.

Cap CEO pay 35x lowest paid full-time employee

Remove “Full-Time” from that, it’s an obvious loophole that would make the point moot.

UBI would be nice too, especially as the reliance on AI/automation becomes more prevalent

The only way you’re going to close the wealth gap is by taking it back from them. At this point it’s the only option. The democrats are compromised too completely.

You forgot ban lobbying.

You think you're getting another election?

Caping their pay like that would assure only rich people could become politicians in poor districts.

Okay, hold up. Not all of these are federal.

Ranked choice in all elections - that's a state thing.

As for the congress trading and income caps, we want to do that for state representatives as well, right?

I'm guessing the billionaire and mega church taxes would also need to be state level, since there's nothing necessitating them crossing state lines.

I'm all in, but wanna make sure the effort is in the right areas.

Also, I prefer approval voting over ranked choice. And let's covert the House of Representatives to proportional representation instead of district-based, and let's do the same for state level representatives. And let's trash the Senate, or at least change it such that small groups of people don't have significantly more power just because they live in the middle of nowhere.

Also, donation info? Website or something to participate? The hell kind of call to action poster has no call to action???? I really wanna get in on this shit.

Bring back civil rights

Came in late but I'll bandwagon that the minimum wage needs to be bumped up.

Lot of defeatism in the comments. You know who didn’t plan on defeat? The project 2025 assholes. Fight! Fight fire with fire!! Fuck anyone that doesn’t get on board. Project 2028, general strike, death to fascism!!

Sure, all of this would be great. There's no chance of it happening, though. We're at a point where either we rise up and take what we want or it'll never change. And we're basically incapable of rising up. Prove me wrong!

Capping congressional salary motivates corruption.

I'd like to add to this that there needs to be limits to how many terms a congressman can be in office and that afterwards, they are unable to fund anything related to lobbying or government officials. Also, kick them off insurance for government officials and cut off their government official salary permanently when out of office.

If we can actually get back in power after they rig or cancel elections, yes!

Cap CEO pay at no more than 2x lowest paid employee/contractor in terms of total compensation.