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What would you people think of this platform:
1a. All products and services sold in the US must be produced in accordance with US law.
1b. The protections of US law now apply universally to everywhere and everyone in the Americas.
2a. As a condition of receiving a license, corporations are required to observe all regulations applicable to federal agencies, including equal opportunity, equal access [to infrastructure and services], and freedom of information.
2b. Courts, state institutions and licensed corporations are banned from recognizing race or ethnicity, or actioning gender issues.
2c. Corporations found guilty of crimes now pass personal legal culpability onto all management responsible for the activities, or who benefited in any way, whether they knew or not.
3a. State governments observe a monopoly on power, water and gas, backed up by federal law.
3b. Private contractors may bid to fulfill this monopoly.
4a. Recall of all US dollars, to be redeemed with a new currency backed by tree-covered land.
4b. Any caches of dollars greater than $50k not previously declared on tax forms and/or deposit records of licensed US banks are void and will not be redeemed for the new currency.
4c. Limit six turn-ins per individual.
4d. Foreign-held T-bills will be redeemed at 75% of their principal.
5a. Land, sales, income and corporate taxes are dramatically increased, normalized nationwide, and distributed to local governments per capita.
5b. States are no longer permitted to collect their own taxes.
6a. Charitable donations are no longer tax-deductible.
6b. Religious organizations are no longer tax-exempt.
7a. Candidates for office will receive a lump payment for expenses plus guaranteed airtime from all licensed broadcasters, upon meeting a quorum of 75,000 or one-tenth the voting age population of the region, whichever is less.
7b. Donations to politicians are outlawed.
8a. The Electoral College is to be disbanded. Its responsibilities will devolve on the House of Representatives.
8b. Veterans Day is now Voting Day.
8. Social Security restricted to persons over 65.
9a. Guaranteed housing and payouts for any and all American citizens who enroll in a national labor force. Labor force will be used to build infrastructure, roads and fortifications.
9b. Labor forces are organized and pair for by the federal government, but placed at the disposal of state and county governments.
9c. Any leftover personnel will be subcontracted off to private industry.
10. As a condition of holding a license to practice medicine or law, lawyers and doctors are no longer permitted to work freelance. They must participate in the DKP system described in another thread (bid against their peers on cases and patients in a token economy).
11. Personal ownership of guns restricted to weapons that meet three or more of the following criteria:
11a. Firing rate less than five rounds a minute.
11b. Magazine size smaller than ten projectiles (each pellet in a shotgun counts as a projectile).
11c. Smoothbore barrel.
11d. Designed before 1910.
11e. No automatic loading mechanism.
12. National Guard now responsible for maintaining public armories/firing ranges nationwide, and providing mandatory military training for all high schoolers.
13a. Reduction in military headcount of 2% annually for 20 years.
13b. Reduction in military spending for 4% annually for 20 years.
14a. All men between the ages of 18 and 30 must serve five years in the Army or Navy.
14b. Conscript forces are attached to National Guard units and placed at the disposal of state and country governments.
14c. Local police forces will get whatever people the military can't use.
14d. Conscripts are forbidden from serving in police forces within 1,000 miles of their state of citizenship.
15a. Public schools and universities will be fully funded and banned from charging for tuition, materials, room or board.
15b. Educational system will be defined by standardized exit exams.
15c. Private diplomas will be recognized as the equivalent of public diplomas only if correlated with the same exit exams.
15d. Tenured educators are required to spend at least fifteen hours a week teaching classes.
15e. Administrators are required to have spent eight years at their respective institution as a tenured educator.
15f. Administrators are voted in by all educators at an institution.
16a. University professors will cast votes for the chancellorship. The five with highest vote total will be submitted to the host city for direct election by the populous.
16b. So that distribution of federal assets per capita to local governments provides adequate revenue, universities will be bound not to cities but to entire metropolitan areas.
17. Educated foreigners (determined by exit exams and sponsorship by peers and the chancellor) who complete twenty years of non-tenured research and teaching will receive citizenship and a dacha (built by the local National Guard conscript labor organization).
18a. Universities will be tasked with research and development on new fields of research: space exploration, bio-engineering, quantum theory, and fusion power.
18b. Research objectives will be tasked to the chancellorship of fixed institutions by the Senate on a eight-year basis, with staggered distribution.
18c. A new system of medals, decorations and titles will be afforded as incentives for pushing things forward.
19. All foreign military offensive action requires a declaration of war.
20a. Black budgeting is outlawed.
20b. The CIA, NSA, and DIA are disbanded. CIA/NSA/DIA employees and contractors are to declare themselves and enter the employ of the FBI in the same paygrade. Former CIA/NSA/DIA members can either:
20c. seek amnesty for any crimes they may have committed, forfeit any and all future promotions, be required to register with the government as "persons of interest" (cannot leave their state, change residence, open a banking account or own a house), and are forbidden from quitting their jobs.
20d. declare all activities and face criminal prosecution for any misdeeds they have committed.
21a. Marriage is defined as between a man and a woman for the purpose of procreation. Couples of the same gender or without children are defined as households, with mutual power of attorney and inheritance.
21b. Adoption is restricted to marriages for three years.
21c. Divorce now results in mutual forfeiture of children to the state.
21d. The father is recognized as possessing patrias potestas.
21e. Alimony is outlawed.
22a. Committing eight misdemeanors, three non-concurrent felonies, having an IQ below 90, having more than three children, or serious birth defects now forfeits reproductive rights.
22b. Children with serious birth defects are to be terminated.
22c. Reproductive support is outlawed.
22d. Artificial insemination may only use material from feral human populations.
23a. Rape is no longer a crime.
23b. Sexual violence is considered an aggravating charge of assault and/or battery.
24a. Prostitution is legal, but requires a monthly license and bi-weekly testing
24b. Prostitution can only be practiced at licensed facilities, hosted by the state.
25a. The use of drugs is punishable by a heavy fine and two weeks in the stockade.
25b. The sale of drugs is punishable by crucifixion.
Aestu of Bleeding Hollow... Nihilism is a copout.
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