New Political Party

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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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New Dawn, New Political Party (self.newpoliticalparty)

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I'm taking all comers here. I'm setting this up, but I don't necessarily want to run the show. I have no idea how to run a political party, and I'm not even sure how to campaign, get on ballots, get coverage or anything like that.

But I'm tired of the rich shitting on us, and it's time we shat back.

First and Foremost, this is just our lemmy community. Soon, I'm going to want to set up a website, get registered with whatever body we need to register with, and start ballot initiatives and field candidates wherever we can.

Let's fucking go.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

Well, since I hate myself, I have worked at local level Dem politics off and on over the years. It’s been a cycle of jumping to help because if not me then who? Then I get disgusted when reminded of how gamed the Dems are, the grassroots has no influence on the national party and step away. It’s a stupid stubbornness of mine to keep going back because I believe you have to understand these systems to make real change.

So, I suggest we get a sense of some consensus on

a platform of policy goals, like an exponential tax rate.
a clear statement of our goal to shit so hard on rich people that they have to listen in self defense

By the way, we have historical precedent. The phrase “I have to go hang a duke” as a euphemism for dropping a shit suddenly has new relevance.

[–] AdrianTheFrog 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

personally I like the net income = s * sqrt(gross income / s + 1) curve as it provides a universal basic income, with an incentive to work, naturally guides incomes downwards, and all as a single easily configurable parameter you can use to fit to any arbitrary taxation amount, it might be better to get more granular control, but as far as 'janky patch solutions on top of capitalism' go I think it works well enough for how simple it is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This would be more taxes on the lowest income earners if you don’t put in a tax-free threshold. Will there still be deductions for things like dependents?

[–] AdrianTheFrog 3 points 2 months ago

It depends on the scaling threshold but where s=30k, it crosses over at around 50k

Its not of an income thing than a tax thing, if you earn no money you will still get an income of s$

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