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What policy points do you feel are the most important? (midwest.social)

submitted 8 months ago by Pandantic@midwest.social to c/newpoliticalparty@lemmy.world

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This topic will be about what policies you feel are important for this new political party. Don’t be afraid to downvote to disagree, but remember: more can be done with discussion, debate, and constructive criticism than downvotes alone.

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[–] JAWNEHBOY@reddthat.com 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not in order, just quickly wrote these out:

Supreme Court term limits. Nobody should be above the law
More cost-effective public health insurance. Eliminate the middle-men and force big pharma to actually compete instead of robbing patients
Repeal citizen's united and force elections to be grassroots funded, no more corpo doners owning candidates and their platform
Federal gun control modeled after NY and VT laws with background checks, references required, magazine limits, and laws with real teeth for possessing illegal weapons (assault weapons banned)
Free tuition to federally funded secondary education institutions
Increase teacher and professor salaries at non-private schools & universities
Federal elections all vote by mail and voting required by law enforceable with a tax penalty and audit by IRS
end TurboTax and move to IRS version for all taxpayers making under $250K annually
Defund the police and use that budget to fund a new department of public responders that handle non-emergency situations
Invest in small modular nuclear reactors for base load power on the electric grid
Bodily autonomy enshrined in the constitution as an amendment

[–] LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

end TurboTax and move to IRS version for all taxpayers making under $250K annually

This is probably related: https://www.irs.gov/filing/irs-direct-file-for-free

[–] LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Supreme Court term limits.

This reminds me of the Constitutional Court of the Italian Republic. "The Constitutional Court is composed of 15 judges for the term of service of nine years: 5 appointed by the President, 5 elected by the Parliament of Italy and 5 elected by the ordinary and administrative supreme courts." However, because some judges are "elected by the ordinary and administrative supreme courts", this seemingly means that every judge gets a permanent right to elect judges, unless they are removed from office. There are also other courts that the Constitution of the Italian Republic describes, so there might be some court of the Italian Republic that has 9 justices with no term limits, but it probably wouldn't have as much power at least!

Alternatively, I've had a thought in the past that it might be good for the Supreme Court of the United States to have more justices. If there were 11 or 23 or 35 justices, then we wouldn't have to worry about the particular people involved as much as we do now, since it'd probably be more likely that the majority of justices would be more similar to the average person.