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1. Decimalize marijuana grow it if you want. Would be treated like a DUI if caught driving while high.
2. City council members/congress would no longer be allowed to give themselves raises and there would be a cap on how much they can make and a term limit.
3. If you walk, ride your bike, take public transportation to work you'll get a tax break. If you had a small garden and you lived in a major city you would get a tax break.
4. I would get rid of title loan and pay day loans, etc.
5. Colleges would be free as school should be. Healthcare should be free.
6. You can marry whoever you want regardless of what sex they are. And your entitled to adopt as well.
This is the 21st century get over your bigotry.
7. No more GMO on our foods sugar companies.
8. Ban lobbyist.
9. After 65 the DMV will re-test your driving abilities. Not just your eyesight you will have to take the drivers test every year.
10. No more late night TV ads from infomercials that targeting the elderly.
11. Create a living wage based on where you live.
12. After the first two years IF the president hasn't done something positive for the U.S he/she is out.
13. The electoral college would be gone the popular vote would take it's place.
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1. Sugar tax 50 cents per pound, high fructose syrups $1 per pound.
2. Beer and wine tax $5 per 12 oz
3. Cigarettes tax $1 per stick
4. Body fat tax excess body fat is taxed
The greater the BMI number the greater the tax.
5. Meat tax Beef $2 per pound Pork $2.50 per pound
Chicken and Turkey $0.25 per pound
6. Marijuana sold at pharmacy and taxed $0.50 per joint.
7. Opioid tax $10 per tablet and not covered under any insurance plan.
8. 5% Of all funds spent on welfare would be spent on welfare cheat inspectors. Claiming medical disability? Fine. Building your house and pouring concrete while claiming to be medically disabled? Not fine.
9. Nursing school and medical school free.
Teaching 10% copay
Engineering and natural science 20% copay
LSA 40% copay
Business 0%
Law $100,000 per year tax
10. 80 new nursing and 20 new medical schools.
11. Generics only covered under Obamacare, and Medicare.
12. Maximum markup on imported generic drugs is 20%.
13. Viagra and similar not covered by any medical plan and taxed $10 per pill.
14. Egg yoke tax $0.25 each
15. Squash subsidies reduce squash price to about $0.10 per pound.
16. New Gasoline/Diesel engine tax $5,000 for >100 hp
$2000 50-99 hp, $1000 10-49hp, $500 4-9hp, $200 0.5-3hp
. Used engines 1.25 times amount
1. Sugar tax 50 cents per pound, high fructose syrups $1 per pound.
2. Beer and wine tax $5 per 12 oz
3. Cigarettes tax $1 per stick
4. Body fat tax excess body fat is taxed
the greater the bmi number the greater the tax.
5. Meat tax beef $2 per pound pork $2.50 per pound
chicken and turkey $0.25 per pound
6. Marijuana sold at pharmacy and taxed $0.50 per joint.
7. Opioid tax $10 per tablet and not covered under any insurance plan.
8. 5% of all funds spent on welfare would be spent on welfare cheat inspectors. Claiming medical disability? Fine. Building your house and pouring concrete while claiming to be medically disabled? Not fine.
9. Nursing school and medical school free.
Teaching 10% copay
engineering and natural science 20% copay
lsa 40% copay
business 0%
law $100,000 per year tax
10. 80 new nursing and 20 new medical schools.
11. Generics only covered under obamacare, and medicare.
12. Maximum markup on imported generic drugs is 20%.
13. Viagra and similar not covered by any medical plan and taxed $10 per pill.
14. Egg yoke tax $0.25 each
15. Squash subsidies reduce squash price to about $0.10 per pound.
16. New gasoline/diesel engine tax $5,000 for >100 hp
$2000 50-99 hp, $1000 10-49hp, $500 4-9hp, $200 0.5-3hp
. Used engines 1.25 times amount
1. Sugar tax 50 cents per pound, high fructose syrups $1 per pound.
2. Beer and wine tax $5 per 12 oz
3. Cigarettes tax $1 per stick
4. Body fat tax excess body fat is taxed
The greater the BMI number the greater the tax.
5. Meat tax Beef $2 per pound Pork $2.50 per pound
Chicken and Turkey $0.25 per pound
6. Marijuana sold at pharmacy and taxed $0.50 per joint.
7. Opioid tax $10 per tablet and not covered under any insurance plan.
8. 5% Of all funds spent on welfare would be spent on welfare cheat inspectors. Claiming medical disability? Fine. Building your house and pouring concrete while claiming to be medically disabled? Not fine.
9. Nursing school and medical school free.
Teaching 10% copay
Engineering and natural science 20% copay
LSA 40% copay
Business 0%
Law $100,000 per year tax
10. 80 new nursing and 20 new medical schools.
11. Generics only covered under Obamacare, and Medicare.
12. Maximum markup on imported generic drugs is 20%.
13. Viagra and similar not covered by any medical plan and taxed $10 per pill.
14. Egg yoke tax $0.25 each
15. Squash subsidies reduce squash price to about $0.10 per pound.
16. New Gasoline/Diesel engine tax $5,000 for >100 hp
$2000 50-99 hp, $1000 10-49hp, $500 4-9hp, $200 0.5-3hp
. Used engines 1.25 times amount
1. Sugar tax 50 cents per pound, high fructose syrups $1 per pound.
2. Beer and wine tax $5 per 12 oz
3. Cigarettes tax $1 per stick
4. Body fat tax excess body fat is taxed
The greater the BMI number the greater the tax.
5. Meat tax Beef $2 per pound Pork $2.50 per pound
Chicken and Turkey $0.25 per pound
6. Marijuana sold at pharmacy and taxed $0.50 per joint.
7. Opioid tax $10 per tablet and not covered under any insurance plan.
8. 5% Of all funds spent on welfare would be spent on welfare cheat inspectors. Claiming medical disability? Fine. Building your house and pouring concrete while claiming to be medically disabled? Not fine.
9. Nursing school and medical school free.
Teaching 10% copay
Engineering and natural science 20% copay
LSA 40% copay
Business 0%
Law $100,000 per year tax
10. 80 new nursing and 20 new medical schools.
11. Generics only covered under Obamacare, and Medicare.
12. Maximum markup on imported generic drugs is 20%.
13. Viagra and similar not covered by any medical plan and taxed $10 per pill.
14. Egg yoke tax $0.25 each
15. Squash subsidies reduce squash price to about $0.10 per pound.
16. New Gasoline/Diesel engine tax $5,000 for >100 hp
$2000 50-99 hp, $1000 10-49hp, $500 4-9hp, $200 0.5-3hp
. Used engines 1.25 times amount
You have the opportunity to implement any laws/rules you want without question and no one could ever challenge them, what would they be?
I wouldn't pass anything. Not trying to come off as arrogant, but it goes against every principles I believe in to seriously toy with the idea that one person should just make a law and pass it.
There are things I'd propose:
1. universal healthcare
2. reasonable term limits
3. reducing the Presidents war authority
4. campaign finance reform
5. breaking up monopolies
Just to name a few...
But I'd never support these things if one person simply decreed them to be. Public policy must have debate. Any effort to avoid this by any politician should result in that person's removal from office (I'm saying Mitch McConnell should be removed form congress permanently... just to name one person).
Most of the replies make me happy that none of you have any power.
Me too. Too mean.
Although I would eliminate lobbying
Have Universal healthcare
More political parties
Deport illegals
Develop more affordable housing, especially for the elderly
Break up monopolies
Do something about welfare so that people could be eased off it. So that they would start working and still be able to keep some of their welfare until for a certain amount of time and until they earned enough to be independent. A time limit would apply. (An incentive to get off welfare and yet they wouldn't starve.)
This is a very amusing thread. Like Hellob I am very glad none of you have any real power.
My only suggestion would be to replace out current Federal Income tax system with its myriad complexities with a simpler and far more progressive tax. This would be based on all income from all, including criminal, sources. Once the incomes were know the 90th percentile could be determined and set as the base deductible. Corporations, as they are now considered individuals, would have their retained earnings considered as their personal income and used to determine their taxes.
The primary effect of this tax system would be to place the cost of running the country on the 10% of the people that profit the most from the country. The other 90% of us could use our money for whatever we want.
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