Top Ten Federal Reforms (from my point of view): 1. Back to the Constitutional designation of a US Congressional Representative for every 30,000 in population: a. Elected Officials must serve from within their districts. b. Drastic cuts in pay, benefits and office and staff allowances. c. All voting would be done over secure networks with public access feeds. d. All meetings and debates would be held over secure networks with public access feeds. e. This would provide better access to the electorate, reduce the effects of lobbyists and disincentivize pork spending amendments. 2. Federal Public Education Vouchers – Allow parents and guardians to direct the federal portion of the federal per student funding to accredited public and private schools. 3. Ranked Voting for popularly Elected Officials a. Provide a better consensus. Removes the risk of third party candidates throwing an election, while allowing the electorate to still express their confidence in a third party candidate. 4. Representative Accountability,… Either a. Elected Officials should be liable of felony perjury when voting for legislation that they have not read (hard to prove/enforce) or understood (even harder to prove/enforce), or b. Elected Officials must satisfactorily pass a comprehension test in order for their vote to count towards the passage of any legislation. Passing the test submits the vote to pass. (Voting records should include the comprehension test score so that the electorate can gauge the intelligence of their representative. There should be a clear distinction between a vote not to pass and a vote that failed to pass due to miscomprehension.) 5. Flat Tax on income and gain – no loopholes, no credits, no exemptions, not more than 10%. 6. Common Sense worded preamble on all legislation with concrete measures of success. 7. Sunset on all legislation, (legislation will expire if not re-passed, revisions optional), (see comprehension tests above) a. Early trigger for legislation not meeting its stated measures of success (see above). b. Consistent sunset on new legislation. c. The greater of the consistent term above or the half-life based upon age for existing legislation. 8. Taxpayer’s Right of Conscientious Objection – Allow taxpayers the optional step to prohibit their taxes paid to be applied to specific budget programs and/or departments. To be an effective objection, and to prevent non-utilization, the funds should be directed to a replacement program and/or department of the taxpayers choosing instead of go towards the general fund and *unintentionally* washing out another taxpayer’s objection. 9. Autonomous-Gerrymandering – each voter should be able to designate which district they think they should belong to. Ignore the outliers and use an area smoothing algorithm to optimize the voting districts close to the desired boundaries while maintaining equitable voter densities per district. 10. No Lame Duck Representation a. Move the Federal Election date to mid-December, coinciding with the beginning of the year-end congressional break. b. Make the newly elected official immediately in charge, once the election is uncontested, with a transition period in which the outgoing official is active and available until no longer needed.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:26:44 +0000
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