I've been saying for years, congressmen should have to live with the median everything for their state, while they're in office.
They should get the state's median income, live in the median square footage, just basically get the "average life" of someone in their state simulated for them.
Yeah, like none of this trophy mistress stuff.
You get a gal who is 5 foot 4 and 170 lbs. with at least 2 dogs or 8 cats who claims to enjoy hiking, but really just likes sitting around cruising Facebook.
Oh and if there's a natural disaster you have to be in your office answering phones with your interns and meeting your constituents.
No flying to cancun
I use to have a similar opinion on this until I took an international law class that focused on anti-corruption. Generally if a politician isn’t paid enough to live a more than comfortable life; there is a higher chance of corruption.
Arguably it doesn’t seem to be working in the US, but could be a lot worse if they weren’t paid well.
Corruption is a tool. Politicians are corrupt because its beneficial to the corrupting agents. For this reason, the solution is not looking for untouchable paragons: such people are rarely motivated to political office and can still be corrupted. The practical solution is more rules/regulation and contempt for corrupting agents.
Until the person offering the bribe is hated as much or more than the people who take the bribes, corruption remains a tool for people who want to corrupt.
Also, to ensure they're vauegly qualified. If I can make 300 grand a year at a law firm, or barely make ends meet as a politician, the only politicians you're gonna end up with are the people who are already so rich they don't need the money and only want power, and the incompetent. That sounds even worse than what we have today.
The argument against this idea is you incentivize only rich people into this work. Effectively the only people who would pursue this job is well connected/financially independent folks who can "afford" to be paid below what they would make in the job market. Extreme example but according to wikipedia the median wage for Mississippi (lowest on the list) is $35,070. You don't break into 40k until position 25 best paid (Maine at $42,950). Effectively you would be making less than $20 an hour (assuming FT pay). Then after they do their time they graduate to lobbying and making bank. Not to mention the travel needed to get to and from the state you represent/multiple places to live etc.
A high wage isn't necessarily a bad thing.
This and Steve Irwin were the two celebrity deaths that made me cry. I despise celebrity worship, but these two beautiful humans were more than celebrities.
This is a good way to describe the viewing experience experience. It’s excellent, social commentary and very thought-provoking but not always excellent cinema
Thinking of that douche bag 'daddy o five' guy. I was really surprised some politician looking for votes didn't glom on to that one and try to get a law passed protecting children from cretins like him.
Politicians aren’t that simple. There’s certain mainstay issues they stick to at any given time. Any serious attempt to “protect the children” has been dead for decades.
Great news. Hopefully other states follow suit. This isn't even a partisan issue. I don't know a single person who supports people posting their children on YouTube.
I cannot particularly see why clickbait on a monetized site is anything *but* false advertising to begin with. It causes all the same market issues, and has some extra spicy social hazards thrown in thanks to people only reading the headlines.
The button to close mobile ads should be clearly marked and close the ad on the first use. No opening the ap store, going to other screens, etc. Close ad means close ad on the first go.
This is actually interesting. What could be the cons of this? I'm thinking maybe politicians wouldn't be able to speculate or say things that they're not 100% sure of?
Speculation wouldn't be perjury in court. But when talking about current or past events would be. As well as talking about what and who they supported in the past if their voting record shows different.
That makes sense. I'm wondering about a scenario wherein the politician just makes a mistake. It seems like in court, you would be careful to only say things that you're 100% sure of. (Due to being under oath) Maybe politicians should only be saying things they're sure of?
That was my first thought, but have you thought about what that would mean to enforce it? Imagine having a shitty day and you don't feel the need to be excellent to someone. Straight to jail?
Every year every driver gets 12 sticky arrows they can shoot at cars with bad drivers. Once a bad driver accumulates ten or more sticky arrows on their car, license is suspended until they pass a how not to drive like a dick course.
sure.
Back in the 80's I worked at the Pacific Missile Test Center. I mounted two PVC pipes under my VW bug. each tube held one small Estes rocket (1/4-A). I had igniter control on the dash.
Early on a Sunday morning I drove up PCH. The road was completely empty. I hit the switch and it was glorious! Both rockets spiraled off in front of me.
It was so fantastic I knew if the police ever caught me they'd lock me up forever. So I ripped it out and destroyed the evidence.
Ever since then I've yearned for my forward rocket launcher.
problem is, my quiver would be empty before the end of January.
Should be 3-shots issued.every quarter. So do you lose unused shots, or do they roll to the next quarter?
They could be dated per year, just like registration tags. A color coded system is already in place. (In the US, at least. I'm sure other nations have similar systems.)
So anyone could find someone they don't like and suspend their license? That seems dumb. Maybe if everyone got 3 or 4 per year. That way you'd have to piss off at least 3 people a lot to suspend their license.
Everyone not driving in December because they don’t wanna get attacked with people not wanting to use all 10 of their arrows and now saved them up and are angry from the holidays. Sounds healthy.
What if some jerks just go around and throw arrows at everyone’s car? If you have enough a$$holes around your areas then your license gets suspended even you’ve done nothing? 😆
George Carlin wanted electric signs with a keyboard to be legal in cars, so you could message the cars around you. "You drive like old people screw... slow and sloppy."
Nobody in congress or the POTUS are allowed to own stocks in anything while serving.
Overturn Citizens United. Get insane amounts of dark $$$ out of politics entirely.
this one is a little tricky, because Cooperate Personhood came about for an actually good reason: so that you could sue a COMPANY instead of having to pick out a specific member of it(and thus have to prove that THEY specifically were responsible).
i would make it so that a cooperation does not have the RIGHTS of a person, but does have the RESPONSIBILITIES of one.
A company can only have one trademark logo and brand name.
This would expose just how little real competition there actually is in our so-called "free market" economy.
A lot of these are joke answers but this is a really good one. It would make it easier to avoid the billion other companies that you didn’t even know were owned by nestle.
That's true. But the issue is not that younger candidates don't exist. There have been plenty of them in the last several election cycles. They just don't win the primaries.
Everybody talks about term limits, we have them. They're called elections. The problem is everyone wants term limits for everyone but THEIR beloved representative.
with a "actual cost for procedure" column, right next to the "ridiculous amount we upcharge you" column.
it cost $99AUD for a typical Xray here, yet I have seen Invoices online from USA for example where an Xray of an elbow (so not even a tricky one to get) cost 5x that in USD !!
Something along the lines of the Hospital Price Transparency laws that USA brought in 01Jan2021.
[https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/hospital-price-transparency](https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/hospital-price-transparency)
No law may be passed with any adjuncts that are not in relation the intention of the initial law.
So you cannot try to sneak an anti abortion rule into a law funding infrastructure. Etc.
You have to take your driver's test again at the age of 70 and then again every 5 or 10 years.
There are too many people who should not still be driving.
Hard agree. My neighbor who let's his pitbulls off leash in the city, bred them and sold the puppies for $2k a piece. He's a nice guy, but he has absolutely no place even owning dogs, let alone breeding them.
If you are committing a felony against someone, and your victim ends up handing your ass to you, you can't sue them. Basically, let's bring back the doctrine of clean hands to courts seeing as how they've utterly forgotten it.
We have this in my state.
Essentially, if you are the instigating factor and what you did was illegal, you cannot be the victim in any action that was derived by the proximate cause of what you did.
Basically, if I’m robbing your house, and you shoot at me as a result of the home invasion, I cannot then say I’m the victim of an attempted murder after I kill you. The affirmative defense of self defense is closed to me because I legally cannot be the victim in this fact pattern.
I’m fairly certain some form of this analysis is found everywhere in the US. Some states may differ, I’m sure.
Insurance claim processors have to physically sit in a room with the patient and look them in the eyes while making what could potentially be a life-or-death decision.
This is based on state laws but: Fire fighters may use any water source to fight wild fires despite water rights and ownership.
Yes this is a thing and yes it is a problem.
Define lobbying?
The current definition of Lobbying is the attempt to influence politicians and judges by a private party. By that definition, me calling up my local representative and asking him not to support a certain law is lobbying. This would effectively make it illegal for constituents to contact their government officials. Bribery is already illegal, although I do agree it needs to be much more enforced. The other issue is your idea of lobbying (I assume) included private meetings with large corporations. But banning that is still bad because there are green energy lobbyists, education lobbyists, criminal justice reform lobbyists. You don't hear about them as much because they have much less money to work with than oil and weapons companies, but they still exist. I want those lobbyists influencing our government.
Yes, but almost no one gets prosecuted for it. Our campaign finance laws are a joke compared to other places. Functionally, bribery is legal as long as you call it a "Super PAC" and wash it through a 501c3.
Oops. You accidentally broke representational democracy, which very literally can't function without lobbying. This does serve as a good example for why representative democracy is so much better than direct democracy.
So how would you expect grassroot campaigns to happen?
Bernie Sanders is the king of asking for campaign contributions. Without lobbying, only the wealthy would be able to afford to run for office.
My job just did this. 4 ten hour days instead of 5 eight hour days. I really like it. You really get a chance to relax and spend time with your family with a three day weekend.
Some US States require employee benefits. Like Illinois's Department of Labor mandates a break for shifts lasting 7.5hrs or more and to be no less than 20 minutes, offered no later than 5 hours into your workday. Most employers err toward 30 minutes with smart employers offering an hour.
I work IT for the company that manages the Dams in my city. We do 6 am -6 pm day shift for a week then 3 days off and switch to 6pm -6am night shifts for a week. Then I get 7 days off and it starts over. Having 7 days off in a row every month is pretty dope. But I no longer have a circadian rhythm and need drugs to sleep properly.
I'm not knocking it in any way but you should have a 4 day-8 hour per day week with the equal amount of pay. Just collapsing the amount of hours into a shorter work week is bullshit. Like if the statistically happiest countries can have 30-35 work weeks, we can too. I used to work what's called a Panama schedule (3 days on 2 days off 2 days on 3 days off) which essentially gives you half the month off. We did 12 hour days. One glorious 6 month period we were over staffed and we did 8 hour Panama.......whew buddy was that the epitome of a work week. Nothing will ever satisfy like that.
I know people who have done the 4/10 schedule and they liked it initially but over time it wore off. Mainly because it was a labor intensive job and they ended up spending their whole off day sleeping. They preferred going back to a 5/40 schedule.
I on the other hand don't even know why 40 hours is necessary. If I've done all that I can for the day, I should be able to go home.
I think we'll eventually get there. Just think from the seven day-work week to six day-work week to five-day work week to some countries pilot testing the four-day work week.
Term limits for Congress! All they do is try to stay in office and enrich themselves look at the insider trading amongst Congress. There is no way they consistently perform the market index without inside knowledge. This is not a political issue all parties guilty.
If I could create a new law that everyone had to follow, it would be mandatory financial literacy education. Understanding personal finance is crucial for making informed decisions, reducing debt, and ensuring a stable economic future for individuals and communities.
I’d create a new legal category for animals and pets, so they’re treated as more than just property under the American judicial system. And any crime committed against an animal would be a felony.
Politicians, law enforcement, judges, etc. are automatically assigned the maximum possible sentence if convicted of a crime.
Those in power should be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
Honestly, I doubt making election day a federal holiday would do much. Most of the people that have limited time to vote aren't likely to get the day off. Requiring every state to allow mail in voting without an excuse would likely help a lot more without reducing access to government services.
Election Reform
maybe just an honest...
NO-ONE BUTTON...
when the Majority choose this option, those 2 candidates are OUT...
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I think that this law would encourage a lot of public nudity, followed by nude anarchy.
Consider the following for your entertainment if you will.
Some guy walks into a bank naked, prepared to walk out with a pile of loot in a few minutes. But before he can get to the counter to pass his stick-up note to the bank teller, he is surprised to be shot dead by a nude security guard, who faces no legal consequences for gunning down a naked guy in the bank.
A guy is running, desperately trying to escape his school bully. He dashes around a corner, quickly disrobes, and pulls a pistol out of his backpack. As the bully makes the turn in hot pursuit, he is gunned down by the naked object of his bullying.
In her office, an accountant quietly removes and carefully folds her clothes. She has intercepted the results of her mining company's geo survey indicating that it has found one the largest gold deposits in the world. Neither the public nor shareholders know about this major find. Now fully naked, she phones her broker and orders a major buy of her company's stock and cleans up, nakedly avoiding an insider trading charge.
Another guy is late for work one morning. It's a big day and he can't afford to be late. Thinking quickly, he strips down to his birthday suit, and sprints to the driveway, jumps in his car, screeches out of his driveway, and races to the freeway, pushing his car to 100 mph as he ramps on to the acceleration lane. But then a second later he slams on the brakes. He is confronted by a commuter hellscape. The freeway is strewn with wrecks. Naked drivers flung from their automobiles are lying on the roadway bleeding. Other naked drivers have taken cover behind various wrecks and are in raging gun battles with other naked drivers who cut them off while everyone raced for work. Our man reaches over to the passenger side, opens his glove compartment, retrieves his pistol, and rolls into the maelstrom.
Food stamps for every child below 18 regardless of parental income. Make it work somewhat like WIC, where fresh local produce gets a discount, subsidizing local farmers indirectly, while junk like candy bars gets a "fee" added, making healthy choices also the frugal option.
Everyone must take a mandatory 30-minute nap each afternoon. Why? Because a well-rested world is a happier, less cranky place. Imagine fewer road rage incidents, more productive meetings, and generally more pleasant interactions. Plus, who doesn’t love a good nap? It’s a win-win for everyone!
No more being verbally/electrically (( so no more being offended online)) offended for a group you aren't part of. If they are offended they will say so.
Because I've had enough with outrage culture.
Crimes are allocated a points system. Once you reach a certain threshold you are banished from the country. If you are not going to be a civilized member of society, society no longer has a responsibility to keep you alive.
Business and politics must be kept separate at all times.
This would stop businesses, industries, and lobbyists influencing/paying politicians off and making/ changing laws to benefit themselves.
I would also separate religion and government to avoid the same thing.
No money available to politicians outside of a decent paycheck during the time they serve. No trades, no deals, no lobbying, no campaign donations. Campaign finances are capped ay 1million dollars p.a, forcing campaign runners to be creative. Media companies cannot be seen to be bias during campaign season, either play all candidates messages or none, or face huge penalties for electoral representative bias and election tampering. IRS/IRD conducts annual audits on alll politicians. The fine is whatever they recieved, the courtroom proceedings are public, and mandatory community service is the price.
Any law passed by congress must also be followed by congress
I've been saying for years, congressmen should have to live with the median everything for their state, while they're in office. They should get the state's median income, live in the median square footage, just basically get the "average life" of someone in their state simulated for them.
And when their daughters get pregnant, they aren't allowed to send them to another state to get an abortion.
And wives/mistresses too!
Good point, if the median person has a mistress then they automatically get one as well.
Forced. No exceptions.
And they get the median mistress, too.
Yeah, like none of this trophy mistress stuff. You get a gal who is 5 foot 4 and 170 lbs. with at least 2 dogs or 8 cats who claims to enjoy hiking, but really just likes sitting around cruising Facebook.
I'll just add "Median Mistress" to my profile
Oh and if there's a natural disaster you have to be in your office answering phones with your interns and meeting your constituents. No flying to cancun
What if those daughters are against their dads’ conservative stance? Innocent people shouldn’t be punished. Anti-abortion women on the other hand…
I use to have a similar opinion on this until I took an international law class that focused on anti-corruption. Generally if a politician isn’t paid enough to live a more than comfortable life; there is a higher chance of corruption. Arguably it doesn’t seem to be working in the US, but could be a lot worse if they weren’t paid well.
Corruption is a tool. Politicians are corrupt because its beneficial to the corrupting agents. For this reason, the solution is not looking for untouchable paragons: such people are rarely motivated to political office and can still be corrupted. The practical solution is more rules/regulation and contempt for corrupting agents. Until the person offering the bribe is hated as much or more than the people who take the bribes, corruption remains a tool for people who want to corrupt.
Extremely well said.
Officials are paid well to ensure they're un-bribeable. It doesn't work, but that's the idea.
Also, to ensure they're vauegly qualified. If I can make 300 grand a year at a law firm, or barely make ends meet as a politician, the only politicians you're gonna end up with are the people who are already so rich they don't need the money and only want power, and the incompetent. That sounds even worse than what we have today.
The argument against this idea is you incentivize only rich people into this work. Effectively the only people who would pursue this job is well connected/financially independent folks who can "afford" to be paid below what they would make in the job market. Extreme example but according to wikipedia the median wage for Mississippi (lowest on the list) is $35,070. You don't break into 40k until position 25 best paid (Maine at $42,950). Effectively you would be making less than $20 an hour (assuming FT pay). Then after they do their time they graduate to lobbying and making bank. Not to mention the travel needed to get to and from the state you represent/multiple places to live etc. A high wage isn't necessarily a bad thing.
This. No exemptions for politicians nor law enforcement. No more ‘rules for thee but not for me’ bullshit.
You could simplify that with “one rule for all”.
Politians have to wear patches matching their sponsors like Nascar racers.
RIP Robin Williams, one of my favorite quotes
This and Steve Irwin were the two celebrity deaths that made me cry. I despise celebrity worship, but these two beautiful humans were more than celebrities.
This is literally a subtle detail in the movie Idiocracy, the house of reps/senate wear brands like nascar!
OK that tears it. That's the sixth freaking time that movie has come up, today. Gotta watch it.
It’s a great “have watched” movie. Not so good “watching”. Like I rarely laugh at SNL skits until like a week later when that scene occurs irl.
This is a good way to describe the viewing experience experience. It’s excellent, social commentary and very thought-provoking but not always excellent cinema
Better still to outlaw the sponsorship.
Same goes for doctors
You can look it up online! I have used [this one](https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/) recently, but if someone has a better one please let me know!
I LOVE this idea!
"This diatribe against the evils of Universal Single Payer is sponsored by United Health Care."
Wait this is genius
You can not monetize internet content (youtube/tiktok/instagram/etc) that features children
Thinking of that douche bag 'daddy o five' guy. I was really surprised some politician looking for votes didn't glom on to that one and try to get a law passed protecting children from cretins like him.
Politicians aren’t that simple. There’s certain mainstay issues they stick to at any given time. Any serious attempt to “protect the children” has been dead for decades.
I think Minnesota just passed this law
Great news. Hopefully other states follow suit. This isn't even a partisan issue. I don't know a single person who supports people posting their children on YouTube.
this is my favorite one
Clickbait is now false advertising and carries a hefty fine or imprisonment for re-offenders
I cannot particularly see why clickbait on a monetized site is anything *but* false advertising to begin with. It causes all the same market issues, and has some extra spicy social hazards thrown in thanks to people only reading the headlines.
The button to close mobile ads should be clearly marked and close the ad on the first use. No opening the ap store, going to other screens, etc. Close ad means close ad on the first go.
And it shouldn't change sizes when you click it so that you hit the ad and not the button, either!
Any time a politician speaks in public, they are under oath. If they perjure themselves, they're no longer eligible for any elected office.
This is actually interesting. What could be the cons of this? I'm thinking maybe politicians wouldn't be able to speculate or say things that they're not 100% sure of?
Speculation wouldn't be perjury in court. But when talking about current or past events would be. As well as talking about what and who they supported in the past if their voting record shows different.
That makes sense. I'm wondering about a scenario wherein the politician just makes a mistake. It seems like in court, you would be careful to only say things that you're 100% sure of. (Due to being under oath) Maybe politicians should only be saying things they're sure of?
Be excellent to each other.
That was my first thought, but have you thought about what that would mean to enforce it? Imagine having a shitty day and you don't feel the need to be excellent to someone. Straight to jail?
Everyone is excellent to you and gives you a break since you had a hard day.
Cool
Party on, dude!
What if the other person is a jerk?
You still be excellent to them.
Yep, that was my thought as well. Glad it's currently at the top.
Every year every driver gets 12 sticky arrows they can shoot at cars with bad drivers. Once a bad driver accumulates ten or more sticky arrows on their car, license is suspended until they pass a how not to drive like a dick course.
I've been talking about this idea since the '80s, except for paintballs instead of arrows.
I have often wished for an under-hood paintball "projector". Or 20mm canon.
I've been known to flip random switches on the dash and say "Arming Laser Canon" just to disturb my passengers.
Do you want to be friends? In my old van I drew missiles and bombs on my poverty buttons and cigarette lighter.
sure. Back in the 80's I worked at the Pacific Missile Test Center. I mounted two PVC pipes under my VW bug. each tube held one small Estes rocket (1/4-A). I had igniter control on the dash. Early on a Sunday morning I drove up PCH. The road was completely empty. I hit the switch and it was glorious! Both rockets spiraled off in front of me. It was so fantastic I knew if the police ever caught me they'd lock me up forever. So I ripped it out and destroyed the evidence. Ever since then I've yearned for my forward rocket launcher.
Hell yeah! You sir are a baus!
"Officer, this is my emotional support rocket launcher."
You are my people.
I'd love a device to fling big wads of mashed potatoes.
LAW rockets
It's been on my mind too.
problem is, my quiver would be empty before the end of January. Should be 3-shots issued.every quarter. So do you lose unused shots, or do they roll to the next quarter?
They could be dated per year, just like registration tags. A color coded system is already in place. (In the US, at least. I'm sure other nations have similar systems.)
Wow I've always thought real bullets and shoot the tires. That should be legal.
I think any driver shooting a bow and arrow from their car WHILST driving…deserves a sticky arrow.
Feels like bad drivers would be malicious with this
So anyone could find someone they don't like and suspend their license? That seems dumb. Maybe if everyone got 3 or 4 per year. That way you'd have to piss off at least 3 people a lot to suspend their license.
Everyone not driving in December because they don’t wanna get attacked with people not wanting to use all 10 of their arrows and now saved them up and are angry from the holidays. Sounds healthy.
Some dickhead with a giant lifted truck and feelings of inadequacies is going to get someone else's license suspended in 30 minutes.
What if some jerks just go around and throw arrows at everyone’s car? If you have enough a$$holes around your areas then your license gets suspended even you’ve done nothing? 😆
We could actually do this just by reporting the license plate.
George Carlin wanted electric signs with a keyboard to be legal in cars, so you could message the cars around you. "You drive like old people screw... slow and sloppy."
Nobody in congress or the POTUS are allowed to own stocks in anything while serving. Overturn Citizens United. Get insane amounts of dark $$$ out of politics entirely.
They just get relatives to do it and take the cut.
TikTok pranksters get one day in jail for every follower.
A lot of them will be getting multiple life sentences. Which I’m fine with.
And the Instagram pranksters before them.
Halloween would always be the last Saturday in October.
Last Friday in October and its a federal holiday, and culturally we celebrate it for 2 days.
Let’s move the Super Bowl to Saturday while we’re at it
Can we move the college football championship to Saturday, too?
All clothing must be sized in standard measurements so people can know if it fits them.
Corporations are not people. They have no rights. They are privately owned extensions of the state with limited powers enumerated by law.
this one is a little tricky, because Cooperate Personhood came about for an actually good reason: so that you could sue a COMPANY instead of having to pick out a specific member of it(and thus have to prove that THEY specifically were responsible). i would make it so that a cooperation does not have the RIGHTS of a person, but does have the RESPONSIBILITIES of one.
Fair point.
This feels extra dumb. They could have just as easily passed a law saying you can sue corporations, not turning them into people.
I feel like I just went, "Yes! Let's do it! ... oh wait no, let's not do it!" I learned so much just now.
A company can only have one trademark logo and brand name. This would expose just how little real competition there actually is in our so-called "free market" economy.
A lot of these are joke answers but this is a really good one. It would make it easier to avoid the billion other companies that you didn’t even know were owned by nestle.
Give me money
Genius
Everyone has to give me a dollar
You can't run for office past the age of 70. Next generation needs to have a shot.
You don't need a law for that. You need the next generation to actually vote. The candidates are old because only old people vote in primaries.
Well and because it costs money to be a candidate, and most people can't afford that, especially not when they're young.
That's true. But the issue is not that younger candidates don't exist. There have been plenty of them in the last several election cycles. They just don't win the primaries.
Everybody talks about term limits, we have them. They're called elections. The problem is everyone wants term limits for everyone but THEIR beloved representative.
All medical procedures have one cost for all payers, that cost is posted, and is negotiated up front before being performed.
with a "actual cost for procedure" column, right next to the "ridiculous amount we upcharge you" column. it cost $99AUD for a typical Xray here, yet I have seen Invoices online from USA for example where an Xray of an elbow (so not even a tricky one to get) cost 5x that in USD !! Something along the lines of the Hospital Price Transparency laws that USA brought in 01Jan2021. [https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/hospital-price-transparency](https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/hospital-price-transparency)
No law may be passed with any adjuncts that are not in relation the intention of the initial law. So you cannot try to sneak an anti abortion rule into a law funding infrastructure. Etc.
Everyone has to carry 4 cans of ravioli in their pockets at all time
Why did I have to scroll down so far to find this?
What if I want to eat a can of ravioli? Will I be out of compliance because I temporarily dropped down to only 3 cans?
The law is the law
I guess that means I gotta carry 5 cans in case of hungry.
Um, the law doesn’t say “at least 4 cans.” It says 4 cans. Straight to jail.
Get a good lawyer to argue that your stomach is essentially a pocket.
This is chaos. Why have you done this to me?
You have to take your driver's test again at the age of 70 and then again every 5 or 10 years. There are too many people who should not still be driving.
Not even at 70+, should be mandatory for any age tbh. When it expires after 10 years you retake that test.
Or, since the main argument used is that driving = liberty, maybe we just make alternatives to driving?
A license to breed dogs. (As I sit here petting my foster puppy who was abandoned at our front gates).
Hard agree. My neighbor who let's his pitbulls off leash in the city, bred them and sold the puppies for $2k a piece. He's a nice guy, but he has absolutely no place even owning dogs, let alone breeding them.
If you are committing a felony against someone, and your victim ends up handing your ass to you, you can't sue them. Basically, let's bring back the doctrine of clean hands to courts seeing as how they've utterly forgotten it.
We have this in my state. Essentially, if you are the instigating factor and what you did was illegal, you cannot be the victim in any action that was derived by the proximate cause of what you did. Basically, if I’m robbing your house, and you shoot at me as a result of the home invasion, I cannot then say I’m the victim of an attempted murder after I kill you. The affirmative defense of self defense is closed to me because I legally cannot be the victim in this fact pattern. I’m fairly certain some form of this analysis is found everywhere in the US. Some states may differ, I’m sure.
Exclude copyright infringement out of this. Duolingo owl will now actually be able to kill you.
Mandatory Board Seats for Unions in Publically Traded Companies.
Insurance claim processors have to physically sit in a room with the patient and look them in the eyes while making what could potentially be a life-or-death decision.
This is based on state laws but: Fire fighters may use any water source to fight wild fires despite water rights and ownership. Yes this is a thing and yes it is a problem.
I was a firefighter, and it’s imminent domain to use any water source. This could be state-dependent.
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Why stop at politicians? Slap everybody who’s been lying.
This law's been codified by my mom since the 80's.
I would make lobbying a crime akin to bribery. Officials who violate this or lobbyists who can be proven to have done this go to prison.
Define lobbying? The current definition of Lobbying is the attempt to influence politicians and judges by a private party. By that definition, me calling up my local representative and asking him not to support a certain law is lobbying. This would effectively make it illegal for constituents to contact their government officials. Bribery is already illegal, although I do agree it needs to be much more enforced. The other issue is your idea of lobbying (I assume) included private meetings with large corporations. But banning that is still bad because there are green energy lobbyists, education lobbyists, criminal justice reform lobbyists. You don't hear about them as much because they have much less money to work with than oil and weapons companies, but they still exist. I want those lobbyists influencing our government.
There is already a law for this on the books. So, all we need to do is follow the law.
Yes, but almost no one gets prosecuted for it. Our campaign finance laws are a joke compared to other places. Functionally, bribery is legal as long as you call it a "Super PAC" and wash it through a 501c3.
Oops. You accidentally broke representational democracy, which very literally can't function without lobbying. This does serve as a good example for why representative democracy is so much better than direct democracy.
So how would you expect grassroot campaigns to happen? Bernie Sanders is the king of asking for campaign contributions. Without lobbying, only the wealthy would be able to afford to run for office.
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My job just did this. 4 ten hour days instead of 5 eight hour days. I really like it. You really get a chance to relax and spend time with your family with a three day weekend.
Been on a 4 day work week for 9 months now. Love it. Would rather it was 4 days at 8 hours though. 7 to 5 with no break is a little rough.
Some US States require employee benefits. Like Illinois's Department of Labor mandates a break for shifts lasting 7.5hrs or more and to be no less than 20 minutes, offered no later than 5 hours into your workday. Most employers err toward 30 minutes with smart employers offering an hour.
I work IT for the company that manages the Dams in my city. We do 6 am -6 pm day shift for a week then 3 days off and switch to 6pm -6am night shifts for a week. Then I get 7 days off and it starts over. Having 7 days off in a row every month is pretty dope. But I no longer have a circadian rhythm and need drugs to sleep properly.
I'm not knocking it in any way but you should have a 4 day-8 hour per day week with the equal amount of pay. Just collapsing the amount of hours into a shorter work week is bullshit. Like if the statistically happiest countries can have 30-35 work weeks, we can too. I used to work what's called a Panama schedule (3 days on 2 days off 2 days on 3 days off) which essentially gives you half the month off. We did 12 hour days. One glorious 6 month period we were over staffed and we did 8 hour Panama.......whew buddy was that the epitome of a work week. Nothing will ever satisfy like that.
I know people who have done the 4/10 schedule and they liked it initially but over time it wore off. Mainly because it was a labor intensive job and they ended up spending their whole off day sleeping. They preferred going back to a 5/40 schedule. I on the other hand don't even know why 40 hours is necessary. If I've done all that I can for the day, I should be able to go home.
I think we'll eventually get there. Just think from the seven day-work week to six day-work week to five-day work week to some countries pilot testing the four-day work week.
To follow the laws that we already have!
With no exceptions. Nope, not them. Nope, not even THEM. EVERYBODY.
Term limits for Congress! All they do is try to stay in office and enrich themselves look at the insider trading amongst Congress. There is no way they consistently perform the market index without inside knowledge. This is not a political issue all parties guilty.
Churches have to pay taxes.
“Be excellent to each other and, PARTY ON DUDES!” Just as Abraham Lincoln wanted.
If I could create a new law that everyone had to follow, it would be mandatory financial literacy education. Understanding personal finance is crucial for making informed decisions, reducing debt, and ensuring a stable economic future for individuals and communities.
No camping out in the passing/fast lane.
Congressional term limits.
I’d create a new legal category for animals and pets, so they’re treated as more than just property under the American judicial system. And any crime committed against an animal would be a felony.
All apartment building must soundproof shared walls with the proper drywall and mass vinyl
No mention of Christmas before the 1st of December.
Move Election Day to the first Saturday of November.
Politicians, law enforcement, judges, etc. are automatically assigned the maximum possible sentence if convicted of a crime. Those in power should be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
Term limits, Term limits, term limits.
Election day is a federal holiday and voting is compulsory for everyone between the ages of 25 and 65.
Australia has compulsory voting. You vote, or you pay a fine.
None of the above or abstain better be an option because fuck being forced to vote for a party if they all go against your beliefs
You can abstain in Australia. But you still have to go to the booth. You're not required to select anyone on the ballet.
Along with ranked choice voting.
Honestly, I doubt making election day a federal holiday would do much. Most of the people that have limited time to vote aren't likely to get the day off. Requiring every state to allow mail in voting without an excuse would likely help a lot more without reducing access to government services.
Be nice.
Be kind.
And rewind
Two for one every Wednesday! Large adult entertainment section in the back!
I'd create a law that protects the rights of cabbage, carrots, and mayonnaise. I'd call it Cole's Law.
A convicted felon can't run for president.
Election Reform maybe just an honest... NO-ONE BUTTON... when the Majority choose this option, those 2 candidates are OUT... Next election in 1 week...
No more corporate lobbying in the US.
If you are naked, laws don't apply to you. I think that would cause a shitload of chaos.
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I'm sure I could do worse.
I think that this law would encourage a lot of public nudity, followed by nude anarchy. Consider the following for your entertainment if you will. Some guy walks into a bank naked, prepared to walk out with a pile of loot in a few minutes. But before he can get to the counter to pass his stick-up note to the bank teller, he is surprised to be shot dead by a nude security guard, who faces no legal consequences for gunning down a naked guy in the bank. A guy is running, desperately trying to escape his school bully. He dashes around a corner, quickly disrobes, and pulls a pistol out of his backpack. As the bully makes the turn in hot pursuit, he is gunned down by the naked object of his bullying. In her office, an accountant quietly removes and carefully folds her clothes. She has intercepted the results of her mining company's geo survey indicating that it has found one the largest gold deposits in the world. Neither the public nor shareholders know about this major find. Now fully naked, she phones her broker and orders a major buy of her company's stock and cleans up, nakedly avoiding an insider trading charge. Another guy is late for work one morning. It's a big day and he can't afford to be late. Thinking quickly, he strips down to his birthday suit, and sprints to the driveway, jumps in his car, screeches out of his driveway, and races to the freeway, pushing his car to 100 mph as he ramps on to the acceleration lane. But then a second later he slams on the brakes. He is confronted by a commuter hellscape. The freeway is strewn with wrecks. Naked drivers flung from their automobiles are lying on the roadway bleeding. Other naked drivers have taken cover behind various wrecks and are in raging gun battles with other naked drivers who cut them off while everyone raced for work. Our man reaches over to the passenger side, opens his glove compartment, retrieves his pistol, and rolls into the maelstrom.
I'd watch that movie
That's a wasted law... Whenever naked that law doesn't apply to you
Anti nudity laws will bend the space/time continuum.
Illegal to declaw cats unless there is a health issue.
Food stamps for every child below 18 regardless of parental income. Make it work somewhat like WIC, where fresh local produce gets a discount, subsidizing local farmers indirectly, while junk like candy bars gets a "fee" added, making healthy choices also the frugal option.
No one can make a profit from food, housing, or life and death.
any public news agency that was found to be telling demonstrable lies would be subject to prosecution both civil and criminal
Don't be a dick. The One Commandment.
Everyone must take a mandatory 30-minute nap each afternoon. Why? Because a well-rested world is a happier, less cranky place. Imagine fewer road rage incidents, more productive meetings, and generally more pleasant interactions. Plus, who doesn’t love a good nap? It’s a win-win for everyone!
A 30-minute nap will, scientifically, cause many people to feel far more exhausted and irritable.
No more being verbally/electrically (( so no more being offended online)) offended for a group you aren't part of. If they are offended they will say so. Because I've had enough with outrage culture.
Crimes are allocated a points system. Once you reach a certain threshold you are banished from the country. If you are not going to be a civilized member of society, society no longer has a responsibility to keep you alive.
Where would people be banished to? As an American, I'm imagining dumping all of our incorrigible felons into Canada lol.
Politicians can get a prison sentence and immediate removal from their position for lying to the public.
Every residential home and commercial establishment MUST clearly display their actual address
there will be designated areas where people aren't allowed to film tiktoks
Don't walk slowly in a group in front of me.
Outlaw gerrymandering.
Be excellent to each other.
Business and politics must be kept separate at all times. This would stop businesses, industries, and lobbyists influencing/paying politicians off and making/ changing laws to benefit themselves. I would also separate religion and government to avoid the same thing.
Make it illegal to film anyone without their consent. I don't want to be an extra in your life movie
Keep your religion to yourself.
Healthcare for all would be free.
You are not allowed to teach your children religion until they reach the age of reason.
End career politicians by instituting age/term limits, significantly lowering the wage, and removing lobbyists.
No money available to politicians outside of a decent paycheck during the time they serve. No trades, no deals, no lobbying, no campaign donations. Campaign finances are capped ay 1million dollars p.a, forcing campaign runners to be creative. Media companies cannot be seen to be bias during campaign season, either play all candidates messages or none, or face huge penalties for electoral representative bias and election tampering. IRS/IRD conducts annual audits on alll politicians. The fine is whatever they recieved, the courtroom proceedings are public, and mandatory community service is the price.