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Abolish senate and scotus? Wtf is this?
Implement armed street judges that operate as judge, jury, and executioner.
Who needs those pesky checks and balances? They just slow things down. I want my candidate to do what I want, without interference. I’m sure Bernie will be the next President and we can build trains just like China!
A list of half baked ideas.
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I am pretty sure close to half this list is completely unconstitutional and literally unworkable without a whole new one.
That’s the point of a rework
The Senate has the exact same problem that the electoral college does.
For the SCOTUS, we do need a “highest court” but I’m certainly open to things like ethics requirements that are actually enforced. Don’t know how I feel about lifetime appointments. Pros and cons there.
It would require a Constitutional Convention, large amendment, or several amendments. So really hard. Furthermore getting rid of SCOTUS and the income tax aren’t good ideas. We need a court of last resort and a VAT is incredibly regressive compared to an income tax.
Where do you get the money for UBI if income tax is abolished?
Land value tax, also popularly known as georgism.
Where do they get the money for the military budget?
How should i know? I’m not American.
If you’re interested at all, here’s how
So your solution for funding UBI after abolishing income tax is…debt?
The debt is meaningless anyway, do you think they’ll ever pay it off?
Just so you know, the rest of us grudge our income tax, but pay it because of the massive benefit to us and others less fortunate
The answer is abolishing income tax below a certain threshold, and raising it above certain thresholds
Ding ding ding
No tax up to $75k, tax brackets with exponential decay reaching 95% at $1MM, all adjusted for inflation annually.
This makes sense, I agree to an extent. Abolishing income tax in hindsight is a bit extreme.
Percentages adjusted for inflation? Do you mean lower percentage of income is taxed during years with high inflation?
The tax bracket limits, obviously.
Fairies!
VAT is theft
For government overhaul would add abolishing the presidency and per district voting (just divide seats in the house based on percentage of the vote overall, I.e. one big district).
For the rest of society: abolish private ownership of companies, but award stocks to the employees instead. This will align incentives of the company with the people most impacted by its decisions.
Income tax can stay as long as its very progressive.
It really isn’t possible to abolish the Supreme Court without undoing the constitution entirely. You do that, and you aren’t fixing things, you’re starting over. And yeah, in theory you could amend the constitution to do it, but trying to make that happen is the same as undoing it in reality.
I’m not saying that’s an invalid choice (viva la revolution!), I’m just saying that it is a different concept entirely.
But yeah, if you just changed the first one on that list (which could be done without drastic measures), it would fix 90% of the rest.
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Keep the Senate, but give them seats according to the number of citizens.
See that sales tax applies to financial products, too. Mitigate the impact by giving everyone a fixed discount on that. Make basic food, hygiene products, and books/newspapers exempt.
Only if you want to maintain the capitalist status quo by making sure the population is just comfortable enough not to turn on those few who actually benefit from it, while the rest of us scramble for these kinds of bare minimum, not even all-our-human-rights-being-met scraps, some even thanking our overlords for their generosity as they
pisstrickle down all over us.A bi-camera system makes sense in a federated state. But it makes sense to graduate the power of one chamber to ensure legislation can’t be blocked forever.
A Supreme Court is necessary if you have a constitution. But judges shouldn’t be political appointees only. Many other countries have a selection process whereby the nominees are appointed by the judges and the selection are done by an approval process in parliament (often not a majority vote, but an approval system that enables centrist candidates to emerge).
No, it doesn’t. First, changing constitution would be impossible. Two, even if you did all this it would just make right wing states get even more extreme (there’s nothing in the plan that would let central government protect human and constitutional rights in red states).
Unfortunately US political system wasn’t designed in a way that let’s it change with time. To introduce big reforms like this it would pretty much have to collapse and be rebuild from scratch. Realistic way to make things better is simply organizing locally to inform/educate people about progressive/socialist policies, electing moderate/progressive politicians to take over Democratic party and simply creating a political force that can actually oppose Republicans instead of trying to comprise all the time.
No so long ago it was generally accepted that Republicans will always be a minority party. They managed to take over the government though smart PR, well organized (dis)information campaigns and long term, bottom-up work to take over institutions. Now Democrats have to do the same.
No. What kind of crazy shit is this?
Income tax is one of the only tools that could be used to combat inequalityCapital gains taxes and graduated lending taxes would do far more to combat wealth inequality than income tax ever could
I’d just like to give a shout-out to estate tax, which is the only kind of tax that has the explicit purpose of preventing the establishment of an aristocracy.
Yeah but it also means that families might not be able to afford their own home if the people listed on the deed die.
1 home should be deductible from property and estate taxes for all individuals, and not at all for any kind of corporation or organization.
You must not understand how the rich make money. Unfortunate, hopefully you learn some day.
So you’re not really asking if your plan makes sense, you’re trying to force what you think on others. You’ll learn one day.
I’m not forcing anything on anyone, I’m just bringing up things they don’t like to hear.
You want income tax to scale up for ‘normal’ rich people. You then need additional laws/taxes for the super rich as they operate in a different economic world.
Here, if you’d actually like to learn why income tax doesn’t work and why it disproportionately impacts the poorest workers: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
The poorest workers have an effective tax rate of 0%, and are given extra money when they file their returns if they have kids. How does income tax hurt people who don’t pay it and only receive the benefits from it?
This is incredibly misleading. I thought propublica was better than this. They calculated these billionaires “true tax rates” based on unrealized gains. Until they cash out they don’t actually make the money.
You can argue for higher income tax brackets, or a more progressive capital gains ladder, or regulations in banking stopping rich people from using other peoples money based on equity they have or any number of way more complicated things that aren’t income related, but outside of just a wealth tax which is something entirely different, these true tax rate numbers are nonsense.
His idea that an income tax is super regressive because the wealthy can live off “unrealized gains” is wrong. But so is your assertion that they don’t actually make money until they realize the gains.
Wealthy people live off of low interest loans that use their stock as collateral. However as long as the green line goes up, they never need to really worry. And when payment comes due it just gets rolled into another loan. The primary mistake the merely rich make when trying to move up is transitioning to this model too early or too aggressively and losing their stock collateral.
This is also how billionaires take a 1 dollar “paycheck” and afford to fly private jets everywhere. “Unrealized gains” is a lie and a giant loophole in our tax system.
I know, and that’s what I was vaguely describing. It’s something entirely different than what’s being talked about.
Here’s my modified list:
- RCV, Approval Voting, or STAR voting
- Abolish electoral college, and abolish state legislative districts or at least implement a simple district-drawing algorithm
- Keep the senate and house I guess
- Give the supreme court term limits without reelection. You serve for like 10 years or whatever and then you go back to being a normal circuit judge or whatever else you want to do. Give them a bunch of bonus money at the end so they’re less likely to take bribes. Institute strict ethics regulations. These can be arbitrated by a committee of circuit courts. Maybe expand SCOTUS to 13 seats (1 per circuit)
- idk anything about the house rep cap
- Universal healthcare
- UBI, universal unemployment, or shorten the workweek. As we increase automation, we require less labor for a decent standard of living
- Crank up income tax and close tax loopholes. Double IQS funding, they make more money by catching millionaires+ than they spend on doing so
The last two points reminds me of the Fair Tax proposal that was popular among Libertarian circles for a bit.
(I should note that the Fair Tax was the name and not necessarily an accurate description)
*Undo citizens united
