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Universal Healthcare! Everywhere! Present, future, somehow in the past as well!!!

Every Sunday we kill the richest person on the planet, with provisions for loophole abuse.

I would make a law to limit the number of laws........

I'm for a hypocrisy multiplier on criminal punishment. If you are found guilty of a crime that you publicly denounced before punishment is doubled.

All public servants must publicly denounce most common crimes before taking office.

All assets will be taxed as follows:

• 0% for those whose total assets are between half and twice the median (calculated from the entire adult population, adult meaning those who are eligible to vote)

• for those whose total assets are above twice the median, the formula would be as follows:

  rate = 100% * 50% ^ floor(log₂(total assets / median assets))
  

  Thus, for those who has 16 times the calculated median asset, they will be taxed 93.75% the value of their assets.

  This is different from the tax bracket calculations, but it can be modified so that it will be calculated similarly (that is, the portion of the assets that exceed 16 times the median will be taxed 93.75%, those between 8 and 16 will be taxed 87.5%, between 4 and 8 will be taxed 75%, between 2 and 4 taxed 50%, and between the median and twice it are tax-free. It will be a more complicated calculation, and IDK if it is an improvement over the more simple formula.

• those who have less than half the median, the formula will be as follows:

  rebate = max(total assets * abs(ceiling(log₂(total assets / median assets))), k)
  

  where k is a defined maximum rebate value

  Thus, for those who has 1/16 the calculated median asset, they will have a rebate of 16 times the value of their assets, unless it's greater than the maximum rebate value. Those who have absolutely no assets to their name will have the maximum rebate value (since a 0 will break a more naive formula).

Assets can then be defined for this calculation such that it covers any means of earning money (stock, land, equipment, etc), but I am not a tax lawyer to bullet-proof this. The intent is that those who have less will receive such that they are lifted up, and those who have too much will be levied accordingly. The end result, hopefully, will be a society where most people have some assets, but no one will have way more than twice, or way less than half the median (an average value that is more or less resistant to extreme values).

Will it be practical? I sure hope so. Will it be realistic, hell no!

100% tax rate for earnings over $1 billion.

No bonuses for CEO's engaged in mass layoffs in the same fiscal year, defined as firings of more than 50 employees .

No employee can earn more than 5 times the average salary at a given company.

No more corporate tax, but company sales in a country are taxed as the percentage of global sales. Tax breaks on offer for investment, I.e. Building a factory and bringing jobs. No more 'unprofitable' regional businesses.

All corporations must be converted to worker owned cooperatives.

Is there a downside for "all software open source"?

Saying "all doors unlocked" allows bad guys to get into houses/cars/bathrooms. Is there a downside for open source software?

Otherwise, I like that rule

Serious: UBI and universal healthcare, also abolish medical debt.

Fun: Everyone has to register a favorite dinosaur and snack. That way if you’re in a bad way you can get stickers/stuffies/etc. and food that will help you feel better.

Fun law: Free pizza on the 18th of every month (18" pizza)! Real law: Outlaw all religions.

Everyone must wear a silly hat on Tuesdays.

Being mean to shop staff, waitresses, cleaners etc is unlawful and will be punished.

That businesses should respect peoples' sleep needs in the same way a minimum age and mandatory lunch breaks exist. Chernobyl happened because the plant was requiring people to trade some of their sleep hours for work hours.

The compulsory serving of asparagus at breakfast, free corsets for the under-fives, and the abolition of slavery.

If we outlaw stupidity, it would hopefully get a bigger budget for education. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Knowing Lemmy, this thread will turn into an anti-capitalist, anti-billionaire, anti-big tech and anti-conservative circle jerk in no time.

Personally, I have no expertise in this field, so I’m not going to propose new laws while pretending to know what unforeseeable consequences they might or might not have. If anything, I’d be more inclined to remove existing laws that I see as unjust.

1. I would ban horns on cars. (The "beep beep" variety, not like cow horns.)

2. Corporations, if they want to be treated like "human beings" must also be punishable like human beings, including prison time and execution.

3. Speaking of punishments, fines should be a proportion of your net worth. (Net worth, not cash on hand.) Having set fines is basically just giving rich folk a paid license to do whatever they like.

4. No CEO shall make more than 50 times what their lowest-paid employee is paid, including through backdoors like stock options, bonuses, perquisites, etc.

5. Salaries shall be open knowledge, routinely posted at places of employment.

6. Universities are free to all who pass entrance exams, but before you can write the entrance exam you must spend a year abroad. The more wealthy your background, the poorer the place you must spend your year in.

7. Tipping is banned. Pay your workers properly.

8. Slavery is illegal. Period. Including through sneaky back doors like "prison employment."

9. Taxation is 100% voluntary. The proportion of your net worth you elect to pay in taxes, however, is published in your neighbourhood's bulletin boards, etc. as well as on government web sites.

10. Elections are replaced by lotteries. If your number comes up in the electoral lottery you MUST serve in government.