16. Reduce taxes for small businesses; increase taxes on large corporations.
17. Provide more restrictions on the ownership of firearms--with comprehensive registration, background checks, and national standardization.
18. Provide fewer restrictions on the ownership of firearms with comprehensive registration and background checks.
19. Legalize commercial hemp, medical marijuana, and the private use of marijuana for adults, on a national level.
20. Call for a new, independent investigation of 9/11 with subpoena powers.
21. Provide incentives for local and organic food production and alternative health practices.
22. Allow citizens of the 50 states to restructure their state governments from the bottom-up, not the top-down: from the neighborhood block club, to the precinct, township, county, and state levels. Each level of legislative government can make executive and judicial appointments. Representatives at a state level, for example, can be voted out of office completely at all levels by the voters in the precinct, township, or county that the state representative emerged from. Representatives at each level would vote among themselves to send a representative to the next level above it. State constitutions can be rewritten using a democratic process.
23. Increase abortion rights and the rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals.
24. Empower the seven largest, national political parties, using a system of proportional representation to elect 100 individuals to meet at a Constitutional Convention to rewrite the U.S. Constitution, in which the delegates will work for three entire months to get a 51 percent or higher approval of any proposed, new constitution. (In other writings, this author has laid out a 23-month timeline for this process to occur).
25. Establish workplace democracy in companies that have six or more employees.
Roger Copple is 63 years old. He retired 3 years ago in 2010 from teaching general elementary, mostly 3rd grade, and high school special education in Indianapolis. He now lives in the Bradenton/Sarasota area of Florida. He is deeply grateful that he stuck it out to get a teacher's pension and started getting his Social Security early at age 62. He now hopes to make a contribution to society through further study, reflection, and writing. Roger can be emailed: roger.
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