-taking responsibility for the peace of mind of the elderly and aging by making sure that social security is not turned into stock market gambling, and making sure that corporate pension programs are adequately funded, that before corporations pay out bonuses and dividends that they prove they have put aside enough money to cover the pensions and other responsibilities they have made obligations to fulfill.
Here are a few I'll add to the list:
-make gerrymandering illegal
-Pass federal laws making state regulations that suppress voting illegal-- and define what that suppression looks like. Register every voter automatically when they turn 18. Void all laws that take away voter rights from former prisoners.
-make all electronic, computerized and on-line voting illegal. Only paper, fully verifiable and re-countable ballots are acceptable
-Medicare for all. End the death-sentence corporate illness system that is the shame of the USA. Separate healthcare from employment, freeing millions of people who are virtually enslaved by companies and some unions because they can't lose their health care.
-Free tuition at state and local government owned colleges and universities.
-reverse Citizens United. Take big money out of politics. Put term limits of three terms on House members. Reduce senate terms to three years and limit them to two terms. Make it illegal for former legislators to take any lobbyist jobs for five years after leaving office.
-end corporate personhood. Institute a corporate death penalty and apply it to repeat corporate criminal offenders. Make corporate actions that lead to deaths or massive pollution a crime warranting the death penalty.
-Take the income tax back to what it was under Eisenhower-- 92%, and eliminate the cap on social security tax income, including assessing it on all forms of income, including investments.
-Make it a crime to be or become a billionaire. Limit wealth to $100 or $200 million. Start by heavily taxing inheritance-- call it the 'dynasty tax' Success is good, but we've learned that extreme wealth is incredibly dangerous to humanity and the planet. No human needs to own a $120 million painting or house, or a $400 million yacht. Anyone who is not motivated by $100 million has something wrong with him or her. Success can and should be measured, beyond $100 million in wealth, in terms of doing good, of helping the people and the planet.
-Put term limits on senators, congressmen-- two three year terms. Put term limits on supreme court justices-- nine years.
-Break up too-big media organizations-- It used to be a low that these could not exist. Re-instate those laws. Start by breaking up Sinclair.
-Break up too-big companies. Big is dangerous. I've written a series of articles on this: "Small is Better than Big; small acts, world, economics, lifestyles, solutions, activism"
On the other hand, there are a lot of Democrats nowadays, in Washington D.C., who are to the right of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and unfortunately outrageously, they are superdelegates and in the Democratic leadership. They should not be there at all. Some will say the Democratic party is beyond redemption. That may be true. But right now, there is an opportunity to repudiate these sellout shill Democrats, whether it's by primarying every Dem superdelegate who voted for Hillary or by voting independent or Green.
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