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Let's go over your points one by one: - Make it illegal to bribe politicians. It already is. If you want to bring about change you should be more exact with y
by firic 8y ago
Let's go over your points one by one:
- Make it illegal to bribe politicians.
It already is. If you want to bring about change you should be more exact with your complaint, otherwise people won't take you seriously.
- Make it illegal for cities to restrict construction of new housing.
If that was the case then someone could buy a forest and cut it all down. Some people like that there is a forest nearby. I don't see anything wrong with restrictions against destroying a forest even if it is for a house.
- Make it illegal to profit on speculation on housing.
Let's take Flint Michigan as an example. Right now many people are trying to sell their house and move away. Some people are buying a house because they think that eventually Flint will fix everything up and become a normal city. In that case the house would be worth more money. If speculation was illegal then no one would buy the houses from the people who want to leave Flint.
- Make it illegal for employers to discriminate against people without a college degree.
Imagine if Google had a policy that they would interview anyone with an A in a relevant degree. If that became illegal there would be no way that they could interview everyone that was interested in working there. They would have to find another way to discriminate that may be worse.
- Extend Medicare to the whole population. Failing that, or as an interim, extend Medicare to under-18s, and repeal the tax distortion for employers providing health insurance.
Currently Medicare will become insolvent in 2026. How can we include more people if it cannot take care of the current about of people?
- Repeal drug prohibition.
Seeing as China was defeated by England due to the opioid war, I can understand way people would be against that.
- rwallace 8y agoshrug Or come up with reasons for not implementing any fix, and wait for your country to destroy itself, if that's what you prefer. Not my country, and I don't get to make the policy decisions. I can make suggestions, but it's up to other people whether they choose to follow them.
- firic 8y agoI don't understand your response. Just because I don't agree with the fixes that you suggested doesn't mean that I don't think that any fix should be implemented.
- badrabbit 8y ago> - Make it illegal to bribe politicians. It already is. If you want to bring about change you should be more exact with your complaint, otherwise people won't take you seriously. Lobbying should be banned,fair campaign laws should be reinstated. But overall I fell like we're not even talking about the root cause. We need to ask hard questions,like if the US should remain in it's current form. Fake unity is killing the country,if divisions can't be resolved politically then you'll have violent conflicts ,only way to avoid it is to cement these divisions and peacefully split up. All the big problems need national unity to resolve :(