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Lets say you win the U.S. Presidential election and you have a majority (whatever your party is) House and Senate. You even have a chance to appoint a new Supreme Court judge.

What policy would you choose to focus on before your situation potentially changes?

Mine would be election reform. I would at least want fair elections as a foundation for future progressive policy.

free healthcare

A Pizza Hut in the garage?

make internet a utility

Actually start to do something about Climate Change like we should have done 20 years ago.

Amen to election reform. I could go for something I deeply believe in like making health care more available to others, revitalizing education and reducing financial barriers to entry for colleges, ensuring that the ultra-rich pay their fair share instead of skimping out via tax loopholes… but all of these can be accomplished if we put the right people in power, and our system makes it far too constraining to put those people in power.

Give a free high five to everyone, demand to make dessert come before dinner, and allow all kids to push their bed time past 8:00 P.M.

I kid, but in all seriousness i would mainly focus on improving out infrastructure to not only have it up to date, but also ensure it's operational sound for at least 50 years in the future. Having a background in engineering makes this something that I personally find to be quite serious of an issue. It honestly needs addressing like 2 decades ago, and it will only get worse until measure are put in place to begin to correct our crumbling infrastructure system that's woefully out of date.

In my case, I would fix our broken IP laws to make them fair and properly functional. Intellectual Property is important and is one of mankind's most important inventions right behind the written word, but in the US it has been bastardized and perverted to the point where IP holders are now just guilds with extra steps. Overhauling the system along with proper trust-busting would do wonders for our future.

I would also figure out how to reform anti-trust legislation. It's quite clear that governments cannot be trusted to actually enforce trust-busting, so the power to instigate anti-trust lawsuits has to be put in the hands of someone else. I'm thinking the people, but that would come with its own set of problems.

Severely tax game companies that do overpriced dlc, microtransactions, and lootboxes

Actually crack down on Monopolies existing and make sure competition in some form exists in the business world.

Tax churches

Declare scientology a terrorist organization

ban lobbying

attempt to repeal "citizens united"

break up all big corporations

nationalize the banks

ramp up production of dollar and half dollar coins to help the coin shortage, and slow down production of quarters, end production of dollar bills, and switch pennies to cheaper alloys

ban microtransactions and lootcrates

end all support for countries violating human rights

heavily regulate the pornography industry to help cut down on trafficking, and degenerate porn

make murder, sexual crimes, and torture capital offenses

make public urination no longer get someoen labled as a sexual predator

release epsteins documents to the public

end political adds

implement ranked choice voting

raise the minimum wage and implement price controls

have school start later for middle and high schoolers

far stricter environmental regulations

start building more nuclear plants

dramatically raise NASA's budget

make the entire internet, excpetf for specific child friendly, or educational sites, 18+

One of these
probobly implementing ranked choice voting or ending lobbying and adds first

• >Declare Scientology a terrorist organization
• >ban lobbying
• >end political adds
• >release Epsteins documents to the public

Hey, I actually forgot about these. Huh, stinks we can't edit our posts 30 minutes after posting. I'd limit the Political Ad ban to only apply to News and Educational Channels and classify any such channels that violate it as Propaganda in addition to fining them if they don't regularly identify themselves as such to viewers. For the Epstein stuff I feel like a general wave of arrests on grounds of corruption need to happen. Lobbying is basically an obstruction between the general population and the government and Scientology has had it too good for too long… and considering that they're primarily in SoCal I would probably handle them around the same time.

Make it so that the 1776 patriot act that trump was trying to pass gets repealed. Then reform the education system. Gotta allow for kids to get apprenticeship style learning to allow them to actually not work til they're 70 in dead end jobs. So an example is of course, making it so kids are actually taught more skills and shares outside of the mandatory stuff. Basically make it a replica of Germany's education system.

After that, free healthcare and better taxes. Then start reigning companies in that are known to be stepping towards a monopoly. Same with companies that are doing business practices that are detrimental to the customer (loot boxes, outputting faulty products that are known to be dangerous, etc.)

Cut either all ties to countries that are violating human rights.

Make it so that if someone is arrested for non violent charges and crimes can be reformed in prison. That includes of course reforming how prison currently is. Prisoners go in, don't get any way to reintegrate into society then get booted out. Give the non violent offenders a chance at an apprenticeships and a job once they leave prison.

Actually doing what Trump didn't do

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Mandatory gay times

I'll apoint Vermin Supreme as my vice president

Domestically:

1) foremost, significantly curtail the power of the Executive branch. The Presidential office has too much power.

2) work with both parties to make a comprehensive 3 prong rejuvenation project:
A) reduce military spending by 25%, within 5 years of taking office, with primary focus on efficiency, supply lines, and focusing on cost-effective, but highly effective technological armaments rather than pork projects.
B) significantly reduce taxes on businesses, and corporations, with a 10 year tax-holiday on small businesses that generate net profits of less than 3 million annually, or employ less than 30 people, which can be renewed again at the end of the 10 years – balance that with a minor income tax increase, 5% on incomes 10 mill +, +3% on incomes 3 mill +, 2% increase on 100k 1% increase on 50%+.
C) A $500 Billion infrastructure spending measure over a decade – with focus on expanding communications, transportation, energy, and housing in rural and sub-rural states. The purpose being to make less-populated states economically competitive, with an added attraction of reducing urban populations. This would simultaneously reduce political divisions, turn most states purple – so more politically viable, reduce overwhelming housing crises in NY and Cali, while making the perpetual electoral-college issues benign.

3) Implement a UBI program that is lawfully pegged to inflation or deflation %. To make this work I would work to sunset existing welfare programs.

4) Reform Social-security, implement law to phase out medicare with a tier-based grandfathering system.

5) Reform healthcare in the US with a focus of reducing costs by 50% – this means a wide range of policy changes, including a severe tax penalty to employer-based insurance policies. This forces insurance companies to no longer fleece non-employer based insurance seekers, while giving generous benefits to employers who bring hundreds of new customers. Allow for experimental drugs to be sold to Americans as long as they are approved by some state-agency internationally, i.e. if an American wants to buy medicine from France, and it is not yet approved by the FDA, but is approved in France, they should be able to.

6) Legalize marijuana, mushrooms, immediately, full stop. De-criminalize most other drug use. Treat drug-addiction as a disease, rather than a crime.

7) Re-negotiate all existing trade deals to make sure our trade partners cannot use nefarious economic mechanisms to significantly cheat.

8) Environmental Policy: Tax-holiday on constructing new, state of the art nuclear facilities as primary energy need. The US should go nuclear. End all subsidies on oil, coal, gas. Demand strict environmental regulations on the use of, and recycling of solar materials.

9) Make it constitutional law that our federal deficit cannot exceed 15% revenue. If it does, every element of our federal budget should be looked at, excluding the interest on the debt. Every budget year that there is a tax surplus, it will be constitutionally mandated to use the surplus, exclusively for paying down the debt.

10) Encourage and expand private union sectors, while creating massive restrictions on public union sectors.

11) Wage holy war like Teddy Roosevelt on existing tech-monopolies.

12) Constitutional amendment that bans any and all property taxes in any state. Property taxes deny the fundamental right to property.

13) Privatize marriage – willing to compromise to letting it be on state levels. Marriage should not be a purview of the state. Ever. The state's only role is to make sure all marriage contracts are enforced, and no one is coerced into a marriage contract. So yes, if you want to marry 4 people, as long as everyone consents and there is a marriage contract, the state has no say in it. Religious institutions will not be compelled to marry anyone they don't want to, neither would those that wish to get married to whatever partner they want would have to dread that they can't. And no, you can't marry an animal as animals cannot consent, nor children, nor trees.

14) Absolute reform to public education – with a gradual phasing out "public" education as we know, privatizing all schools and subsidizing parents with education vouchers – allowing 100% school choice, a diverse curriculum, allowing most people the option to try innovative and new educational structures that aren't modeled on a 19th century Prussian system made to make you an ideal worker or clerk.

Internationally:

>Withdrawal of troops and bases from Europe.
>Steady withdrawal of troops and bases from the ME
>Expand trade and reduce tarrifs on emerging markets in Africa, India, Latin America and SE Asia.
>Hold China accountable for violations of international laws, human rights, etc.
>*Reduce all UN funding to match that of the second biggest spender*
>Focus international diplomacy efforts to the Pacific, and the Arctic.
>Offer allies logistical support over military intervention.

As some have said:
-Make the internet a utility
-Do something about climate change
-Reform public education
-Reform healthcare

Other things I'd do:
-Reform gun laws that they can work but that one can own an AR-15 so long as they pass the laws..

-Reform the institutions of law enforcement so that they don't have members that end up making their versions of Rodney King and George Floyd.

-Bring troops back from places like Afghanistan, either withdraw from bases overseas or see if troops can stay based on what can be worked out with the political leaders of a nation that contains a US base.

-Reduce military spending. I don't see how we can keep asking HK to make a new rifle for the US only for the US military to not change to it or how we can justify investing in a jet that's a failure at 35 billion dollars.

Tax churches..?

As in make them pay taxes

Try to fix government if it was corrupted by previous presidents

Lower the taxes in case of accidentally make poor people even poorer

Give people jobs…

Perhaps you are right, but only when it's neccessary.

I would play hide and seek with the staff. I would then get high and pee on Woodrow Wilsons portrait.

Jokes on you, I wouldn't need to be high to do that

Oh hi obamium how you doing.

Huh?

Sounds kind of delusional, not gonna lie.

How old are you, anyways?

Just wanted to know how you doing, it seems that you made a new account after you got banned and yet you had not learned your lesson after all. Took a long time to be posting something about your anime hatred.

Not sure what you're talking about. You might want to take your meds.

Likely 20 or under given he said he's played black ops 2

Whatever obamium, just hope that you dont act like you used before, but for the stuff that you have been doing, i heavily doubt that you are going to change (sorry for talking about this stuff on this forum i know this is about other topic)

Look, I don't know what you're trying to say, but let's not accuse each other of having secret alternate identities. It's a matter of respect. You wouldn't like it if I started implying that you were Mitt Romney or something. Then again…

I am not sure about Cold War since it feels like every average COD game since Ghosts.

Maybe.

You could have wrote the first part right here and you could have been understood better.

If you want to have a good reason, write it immediately so anyone can understand you.