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The community for creating a new US political party, so far our guiding principle is that billionaires are trash, United Health CEO had it coming, The Adjustor is our mascot and our main raison d'etre is to shit on the rich and take back whats rightfully ours.

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

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/newpoliticalparty

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (5 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

•Free tuition to federally funded secondary education institutions

•Increase teacher and professor salaries at non-private schools & universities

Where will the money to fund these things come from? How can we involve a robbing from the rich here?

[–] Archelon 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

(Edit: one way would be to) Provide funding and power to the IRS so they can chase after big fish. Turns out, the IRS has [a really good return on investment] (https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444), so giving them the power they need to close loopholes and track down corporate tax evasion would be a boon to the nation’s coffers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Defund the police and use that budget to fund a new department of public responders that handle non-emergency situations

What about emergency situations?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Bodily autonomy enshrined in the constitution as an amendment

What does this entail?

[–] problematicPanther 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We really need to look at the gun regulation more closely.

There's no way we're going to end the gun problem in America. But what we could do is try what Switzerland does, which is to mandate military service if you want to own a firearm, do annual proficiency and safety tests with your firearm, mandate that they must all be stored in a gun safe, hold parents accountable for their children's gun crime if they used the parents' weapons.

I'm more wary of implementing full on bans, we shouldn't disarm the working class, lest the billionaires have the monopoly on violence. They need to know that we can still reach out and touch them if need be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm more wary of implementing full on bans, we shouldn't disarm the working class, lest the billionaires have the monopoly on violence. They need to know that we can still reach out and touch them if need be.

This is my concern as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm afraid that to solve the guns issue we need a deep cultural shift, not necessarily policy changes. Humans can be violent, but most humans are not violent usually. My best realistic hope is to build a culture that keeps that violence to a minimum and kept small in scope.

One of the most peaceful and friendly experiences I have had lately was at a gun show. It was a total lark for me, I don't want a gun. I wanted to see how many LGBTQ+ people I could spot. There was a notable minority of people with the sartorial trappings of 'family' and a couple of gorgeous closet-cases. No one cared, everyone was friendly and willing to make random stranger-talk.

Even an anarchist utopia full of fully realized human beings will have crimes of passion and crimes motivated by mental, social and emotional problems, such as greed. There will still be need for violence in cases of self-defense and to discourage the establishment of hegemonic ideologies.

[–] problematicPanther 3 points 2 days ago

Implementation of a universal basic income

Put an end to predatory student loans

Mandate that public tertiary education should be affordable and accessible to all.