A List of Random Ideas

• Maximum lending interest rate: 5%


• Whenever an unarmed citizen is killed by police officers, automatically fire the officers, their trainers, and everyone up the chain of command (including the police chief and commissioner), and recall the mayor.


• Nationalize companies that are deemed essential and re-incorporate them as democratically-run worker-owned co-ops.


• Establish maximum sizes for corporations, based on gross/reported income and number of employees. Break up anything larger.


• Directly fund every public school with federal dollars, based on the number of students in the school.


• Establish the right to repair, configure and secure our electronic devices as a Constitutional right.


• Have a David-and-Goliath rule for lawsuits: If the plaintiff is significantly larger than the defendant, the plaintiff has to pay the legal bills for the defendant.


• Fill all elected positions via single rank-choice voting elections (no primaries).


• Eliminate taxes on income less than $200,000, and progressively tax higher incomes. Replace sales tax with wealth tax.


• Homelessness: Use federal dollars to pay for a hotel room for anyone who needs it (short term) and continuously build social housing (long term).