This guy is the reason all of our rates go up.

States shouldn’t be gambling with tax money, IMO.

1. Ranked choice voting is great, yes please.

2. Why? Explain your reasoning. Voting needs reformed, but this isn’t the way. I certainly don’t want NY and LA deciding every election ever.

3. No. Why? What on earth would this accomplish. The house and senate are separate for a reason. We need the checks and balances they provide.

4. Again, why? The house reps are by population of the state/district. We don’t need MORE bureaucrats.

5. Yes, please. US “healthcare” is in shambles. It’s a complete disaster and the only people that benefit are Insurance companies.

6. I get the idea, but it’s a terrible idea. Fixing the rest will even out the income situation. Turning ALL your citizens into entitled brats is not a great idea.

7. Absolutely not. Eliminate mail in voting except in extreme cases that need to be applied for. Instead, institute a FREE Govt Issued photo voter ID. Expand voting areas and hours. Make Voting day a paid holiday. I don’t wanna hear any racist shit about “poor black people can’t find the voting places”. Bullshit. Make AT LEAST one HS Gym a voting area in every county. Make it EASIER to vote in person. It’s a duty, honor, and responsibility for people to vote.

8. , 9. , 10. , 13. Soft Disagree. Our tax system no doubt needs an overhaul. You’ll have everyone “making” more than $50 getting around it somehow. Look into the Fair tax. Eliminate ALL taxes. embedded, import, state, local, federal, income, capital gains, etc. implement a level sales tax on everything. Don’t want to pay taxes, don’t buy shit. everyone pays their FAIR share that way, and there is no way for the rich to get out of paying. This would eliminate the IRS and ‘tax preparation companies’. Which I don’t really understand this issue with those companies. No one is forcing you to use them. And there is absolutely NO WAY i want the IRS doing my taxes FOR me. fuck all that noise. But again, implement the fair tax and IRS goes away anyway.

9. Lifetime appointments are bogus, but i think i a role like SCOTUS, longer terms are required. I read something here about aging out and I like that as an option.

10. sure, on board.

11. Guess i don’t really understand this. Explain?

Plenty of other things. Term limits for congress.

Make congress abide by the rules they set for us including insurance, healthcare, stock trading etc. While we’re at it, create a congressional village of sorts. You’re assigned a house/duplex/dorm etc while you are SERVING in congress. no more “NEED” to have a house in DC and in your home state. If congress people can’t survive on their $150k a year salary, what hope do the rest of us have?

Eliminate lobbyists. That’s just “legal” bribery.

We need to fix immigration. having an unbridled flow of people come across the border isn’t good. I have no problem with people wanting to come to this country, but there’s a reason we have a limit. There needs to be a complete overhaul of the process.

Make secondary education WAYYYY more affordable, or free.

Stop giving out so much foreign aid, and close military bases anywhere they are not directly needed around the world. we are not the world police. you can’t pour from and empty cup and our cup is empty to the tune of 30some TRILLION dollars. Once we fix our money problems, then we can start handing it out again.

Start holding government officials, included law enforcement accountable. End qualified immunity. Start enforcing laws we already have instead of the glut of new ones every single year.

DEMAND that congress pass a balanced budget every year. no more of this dog and pony show of ‘govt shut downs’. If the govt shuts down, those in charge should be fired and replaced by people willing and able to perform the duties they were elected to do.

Allow Cities, Municipalities, States etc to SAVE money. By that I mean, don’t treat yearly budgets as “use it or lose it”. We as citizens are told to save, save, save, yet every govt entity spends every dime they have every year so their budget doesn’t shrink the next year. Putting safeguards into place so the money can’t be used as bonuses etc would allow govt entities to have a “rainy day fund” per se.

Eliminate the words “school lunch debt” from our vocabulary. Feed children that need it. and feed them good food. not the radioactive waste that gets slopped up in school cafeterias across the nation.

Eliminate the ability for the govt to use Social Security like their own little piggy bank. If they INSIST on using the money, it needs priority in repayment @ the tune of 150% of money borrowed. This would be the mandatory first thing on the following year’s budget.

If we can afford to send people to war, we need to be able to afford to take care of them afterwards.

This is just off the top of my head. The problem is nearly every “solution” here would require people in power to give up that power. That’s not going to happen easily or quitely.

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hol up. you’re saying “being conservative” is an identity to these people like “being insufferably against anything conservative or R” ISN’T part of 90% of Lemmy Users Identity?

I get frustrated with these platforms trying to turn into these ‘do it all’ applications. discord was fine before they started adding all the bullshit in everywhere. it was a great chat place with ‘rooms’ for different groups of people or friends. kinda like how spotify seems to be trying to morph into some social music sharing crap. i don’t use spotify to be social, i use it to listen to fucking music.

Xennials were born 77-83 this fits perfect. I’m smack dab in the middle of that range and our ‘generation’s’ defining characteristic is that we’re in a constant state of nostolgia because we were on the wave of every new technology as it came out and subsequently fell off. I’ve had everything from an 8 track player, cassettes, cds, mp3’s, limewre to an iphone in my pocket. we played oregon trail, nintendo, playstation, to VR games. We watched phones go from a party line to kids not even knowing what a rotary phone is or how to use one.

you’re going to shit when you find out sidewalks are next to streets.

why? do they not have hands? what a fucking waste of research dollars.

WELL NO DUH. Is this really something people didn’t know? The media as a whole is incredibly slanted towards Israel. The fact that none are calling out the genocide that’s happening is a big fucking clue.

“COULD HAVE”

I’m so sick of this sort of reporting. Too many “maybe”, “might have”, “could be”. it’s just fear mongering.

I drive a Toyota Tacoma and a Ford Focus. I live in Non-Denver Colorado. What?

sure this has ZERO to do with ubiquitous cell phone usage. just keep blaming the thing you don’t like and don’t have.

make the economy take a nosedive to get people to vote republican. It’s another “break everything to prove government doesn’t work.”

Is this some kind of joke? The economy is in the tank already. IDGAF what they say on the news. the stock market =/= the economy. just walk outside. look around. ask your neighbors if they think the economy is better or “good”. if you’re really open minded (which i doubt, given your posts) think back 4 years and ask yourself how much further your dollar when then, compared to today. The GOP doesn’t need to do ANYTHING to prove that government doesnt work. our entire system is broken and has been for decades.

i mean, when it’s all 1’s and 0’s…

riiiiight. ok dude.

if that’s all it was then why do we need to keep sending millions upon millions of dollars to Ukraine?

since you seem to know what i am writing about better than I do, why don’t you just enlighten us all?

It always was. Wonder why certain people are just now seeing it? Hmm.

but you’ll still vote democrat so they don’t care.