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not sure about the mandatory voting and outlawing tipping. Just compliance wise. Not voting itself can be a intended thing and I can't think of any country where you have a gun to your head to vote taht is a place I would want to live. As for tipping you will just turn it into bribery. No place should be allowed to pay with the expectation tips is part of compensation. Tips are a gift basically.
I would add:
Equal Rights Amendment
Reverse Shelby County v Holder
Reverse District of Columbia v Heller
Add ethics code for Supreme Court with enforcement authority
Discharge federal student loan debt and regulate higher education costs
Demilitarize police
Ban property tax based school funding
Abolish the death penalty
Federally mandated paid vacation, paid sick leave, overtime over 40 hours, and a ban of right-to-work laws.
Allow the Army Corps of Engineers to repair and maintain infrastructure.
You have about 25 items too many on this list.
Can someone explain to me what "collateral for loan is realized gain" means?
Basically (and I'm not an expert here), the Uber rich get tax free spending money without taking big taxable salaries by leveraging their assets for super low interest loans. Current tax codes don't consider these loans as taxable income, but they're being used for the same things us peasants use our income for. By considering these cash flows as taxable, billionaires wouldn't be able to hide behind the "it's net worth not liquid income" bullshit these use to dodge taxes.
Mostly. I'm fine with some of these being left up to the states, like prostitution and marijuana, although I do think marijuana's federal status should change (from schedule 1, to a much lower schedule). Also, I think the highest tax bracket should be 99%, or even 100%. But that highest bracket should be a very high number, like 0.001% of GDP.
Legalizing Prostitution just creates more Human Trafficking, as a result of allowing human traffickers to operate in the open under the guise of legality. We have decades of evidence that lead to this conclusion. We don't need to keep trying it.