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How you gonna afford all the social schemes with no tax under $50K? I have "free" healthcare but it's 2% of my taxable income. The taxable brackets start at $18,200 ($11,880 USD) here. You'll need to ensure there is finance for social services else you'll be bringing harm to your society in the form of failed infrastructure.
Tax the rich
Mainly: "Increase highest bracket tax (+5%)", "VAT for luxury items", "Collateral for loan is realized gain". Universal basic income will put money back into the economy and generate sales tax. Legalizing marijuana will bring in tax revenue when regulated properly, same with prostitution. Universal healthcare will arguably save us money over time.
No employee, owner, shareholder, investor, contractor, etc. can make more than 50 times the amount of the lowest paid employee, contractor, supplier employee, supplier's supplier employee, etc. (Including all of the foreign slaves).
Tim Cook wants to earn 50M per year? Then all of those Foxconn guys that they need nets to stop from suiciding need to make at least 1M. All of the guys making chips have to make 1M. All of the guys mining coal to produce the electricity have to make 1M.
Income inequality problems would be abated. "Dey took our yobs." would be less of a problem because you would save money by using local labor due to lower shipping costs. Poverty would eventually be eliminated.
Probably communism with extra steps, but maybe it would be less prone to party dictators.
Decommodify housing as well
Honestly at this point the only thing you are keeping is the English language.
Dude I'm voting for you
Ranked choice voting is clearly a better choice than plurality voting, but if you're not familiar with STAR voting, please check it out:
dunno how you mandate people vote. the rest looks like an ambitious but overall laudable start.
Australia already does it
Why would a two party system implement ranked choice if everyone is stupid enough to keep voting for them? They're not going to shoot themselves in the foot.
That's the issue isn't it
It all starts with the top - proportional representation.
It still amazes me that states have those proposition votea/referenda started by petitions and yet there isn't a movement to get proportional representation on the ballot? Or if there is it seems pretty quiet from outside the US.
i think your biggest problem is how you are getting any of this done with opposite financial incentives in the way without a literal revolution.
Can you please create a community for this? I'd love to be able to discuss each point separately, and suggest others.
So, some of these are great. And some of them are so unrealistic they will NEVER happen in a trillion universes. I don't think it's healthy or productive to conflate great talking points with this crud because it just devalues the argument as a whole.
Convert corporations into Worker Consumer Cooperatives to prevent investor wealth accumulation and regulatory capture and align business towards worker and consumer interests rather than short-term profit seeking.
MANDATORY voting... Let's be real, we have people who are unable to read the candidates' personal statements, you really want them voting?
That'll be used to get President Camacho legislating Mandatory plant watering using Gatorade.
The way I see it, mandatory voting is to ensure that everyone is capable of voting. It prevents problems like employers not giving people appropriate time off for voting. The trade off is of course that you'll have people voting more or less at random, or just going with whatever candidates their tribe is voting for without thinking. I suspect the latter averages out to a much smaller effect.
Are you trying to fix systemic problems of government structure or pass laws? They are different things.
Making election day a holiday probably won't have the effect you're hoping for.
Best case: Almost everybody goes to work as usual. A few of them get a pay differential for working the holiday.
Worst case: Holiday means holiday. We'll give all bus drivers the day off to vote -- and hope the bus riders live within walking distance of their polling location.