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Proposal/Issue/Article
Workweek
length : The workweek will be adjusted to ensure full employment while
eliminating unemployment, under-employment and mis-employment. Either
we share job time or jobless crime. Anyone working beyond the optimal
workweek length is not working for themselves but for those who are not working
in whole or part. Let us have 24in4: By better employing our human potential
we can have a 24-hour workweek in 4 years with more funds and fun for self,
family and community in a safer, saner world.
Legislative reform:
Term
limits --Habitual politicians prove the
Peter
Principle , that incumbents rise to the level of their incompetence and
stay there. We need new faces with new ideas for old problems. In times of
worsening habitual problems, the only thing worse than not voting is voting
for a habitual politicians.
Primaries will
be based on using brainbees with federal elections beginning July 4 and
state/local elections on Labor Day.
Staggered
Election : As US Senate elections are staggered every two years, the staggered
principle will be applied to a monthly allotment of Senators and Representatives.
Citizen
Legislation will be initiated on a monthly basis using brainbees at the
national, state and local level.
Women 50/50 :
Each position will be have a senior and junior member with the junior member
being the chief of staff with voting rights.
Congressional
colleges will be established for part-time legislators who live at home
with regular jobs and who vote via the internet with Washington DC becoming
a historic landmark of past democracy.
All Presidential
nominations via Brainbees will be voted upon by 30 days with Senators being
relieved of office based on seniority at the rate of one dismissed Senator
for each day beyond 30 days.
Campaign season
limitations: Primary Brainbees (July 4>Labor Day) ... Get the Dirt
Brainbees(September) ... Weekly Debates (October) ... No outside money
... campaigns donations limitations to be determined.
Presidium:
The Presidency will
consist of five positions with an annual, no advertising brainbee to select
the bottom rung who progresses upward in annual steps.
President, Head Of State, (Hail to the Chief), White House occupant
Prime President, Head of government
Vice-President(Chief of staff),
Premier(Spokes Person),
Vice-Premier(Gofer). Annual election
Women 5050: Each
election will be limited to one sex in a toggle fashion (see legislative
reforms, Women 50/50).
Pardons/Ostracism,
monthly list of seven to president. Presidential pardons will be terminated
based on having been abused.
Supreme Court :
Nine-year tenure,
one elected each year per a region. Region serves as primary with other regions
voting.
No one from a
college/university of a sitting justice can be a candidate. (Harvard, the
gas-guzzler of higher-ed and Yale do not represent humanity.)
Tax Sharing Reform Allocation:
Profit-sharing
Tax: 50% stays at each level as the funds progress upward. We cannot
respond to our ability if habitual politicians keep taking
responsibility , that is, our ability to respond to our problems.
Level Rights: The
duty to solve problems will be assigned to the level best able to respond,
that is, the level of origin, so as to make things right in the most economic,
efficient and effective way. To wit, the best government is the best government
... if we better self-govern.
Community
service for Healthcare costs
Direct Time
Taxation: All able persons fulfill community part-time job, double-time if
unemployed.
Tax Collection Reform: Reform Collection: Taxes will be collected
real time from several sources.
Product
Transaction Tax: Universal flat tax on all goods and services.
Igknowance Tax:
Tax igknowance to stop igknowance from taxing us forever as igknowed
time-wasting, money-draining problems.
Distraction
Tax: Tax activities that distract us from defining and solving our problems.
Real-Time, automatic:
Save 6% of economy or 144 minutes (2.2 lifehours). By re-timing tax collection,
we could reduce the workweek by 2.2 hours with the same tax revenues. This
is part of Profit-sharing taxation and level rights.
Brainbees (Re-cap Summary)
Citizen
Legislation: Monthly local, state, national and global issues of, by and
for the people. Lifehour rewards.
Primaries:
Zero-Cost, fair and level playing field. Eliminate money dictators who determine
ballot content.
Supreme
Court: Let the people decide the deciders.
Pardons/Ostracism : Let the people, not presidential
libraries, determine the good and the bad.
Cabinet
Secretaries: Present President with seven choices, 4 year terms, one selected
quarterly
Military Reforms :
Draft and no vote
except Remove Congress and President, Impeachment:
Patriot Tax:
A gas tax to fund an adequate military force.
Veterans :
Independent Ombudsmen composed of veterans fulfilling community service.