what would you change about america?

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what would you change about america?

not a darn thing, love it or leave it	0%	[ 0 ]
just about everything!	5%	[ 7 ]
i'm not sure.	1%	[ 1 ]
return to 70% tax rate for the 1%	5%	[ 8 ]
mandate universal health/dental care	12%	[ 18 ]
pay at the pump no-fault car insurance	2%	[ 3 ]
direct democracy [no electoral college]	8%	[ 11 ]
mandate national renewable energy infrastructure	9%	[ 13 ]
universal education to graduate level	8%	[ 11 ]
abolish right to firearms	3%	[ 4 ]
mandate firearms in every household	1%	[ 1 ]
humane prison reform, eliminate death penalty	10%	[ 14 ]
universal basic income!	6%	[ 9 ]
national tax on sugar in all its forms	1%	[ 2 ]
national sales tax/VAT to replace income tax, with refunds for <$100k income	3%	[ 4 ]
single 6-yr terms for all federal elected offices	2%	[ 3 ]
bring our military home to stay!	5%	[ 7 ]
stiffen antitrust regs to eliminate "too big to fail" corporate entities	8%	[ 12 ]
other stuff	8%	[ 11 ]
where's my reformist ice cream?	5%	[ 7 ]

Total votes : 146

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07 Dec 2019, 10:19 am

Maybe serve America divorce papers? :chin:

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07 Dec 2019, 1:20 pm

Divorce papers from what?

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07 Dec 2019, 1:23 pm

If somebody hates America and moves to Nigeria, I am sure the person would start loving America in two weeks.

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07 Dec 2019, 1:28 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

If somebody hates America and moves to Nigeria, I am sure the person would start loving America in two weeks.

Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. I know there are countries out there worse than ours, but I don't want to live to see the day that America ends up as bad as some those countries.

That's why it worries me that we have a president who seems to have a weird obsession with dictators.

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09 Dec 2019, 3:05 am

lump fascist ideology into a category incompatible with american values and ban those people [found to be espousing fascism in one form or another from entering the nation.

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09 Dec 2019, 7:54 pm

Rainbow_Belle wrote:

Ban all Unions, cut off Food Stamp Benefits, cut of Unemployment benefits, abolish minimum wage and lower Company tax rates. America only needs tax rates so it can pay for military, police and justice system. Some countries in the Middle East has tax rates as low as 5% and the people live great lives and low unemployment rates.

Sounds like fun times.

Why don’t we all abolish our current form of government and model a new one after Saudi Arabia?

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09 Dec 2019, 8:33 pm

^^^don't give them any ideas.

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10 Dec 2019, 5:45 am

Serious housing reform (especially on the West Coast ), better investment in economically lower-performing areas, far less sexual prudishness, no unnecessary censorship, major education reform, no more applicant tracking software.

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10 Dec 2019, 9:27 am

Rainbow_Belle wrote:

Those countries can afford to do that because 1) they’re obscenely rich in oil and large parts of society can live just leeching off the oil money, and 2) they have an underclass who live and work in conditions that are not acceptable to us.

Also I think it is worth remembering that the government does a lot of things much more efficiently than the private sector. There’s no evidence-based reason to support government funded police but not government funded street lights, or even government funded research grants.

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10 Dec 2019, 9:52 am

Rainbow_Belle wrote:

Ban unions?

And people accuse me of fascism...

I'm glad I'm not an American.

First they take your food stamps after you attempted to contribute to society of what you're capable of.

When you get hungry you steal some food, and in the meantime somebody else exploit the situation and kill some stranger.

You are blamed for the murder and end on Death Row, executed by lethal injection that does not put you to sleep, but involves excruciating pain for 30 minutes before you die.

That's the United States of America.

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10 Dec 2019, 11:17 am

auntblabby wrote:

what would you change about america?

Make America great Again!

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10 Dec 2019, 9:18 pm

single [staggered] 6 year terms for house/senate/white house, no lobbying allowed by ex-pols.

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10 Dec 2019, 10:52 pm

More cowbell

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10 Dec 2019, 10:58 pm

^^^^

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11 Dec 2019, 11:44 pm

For starters, change it to Canada Junior.

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11 Dec 2019, 11:53 pm

these days i think a more appropriate name would be north mexico.

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