National Idea Leaderboard
A majority of ALL FOUR sides of the table !!!!
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#1 The Great Penny Meltdown
Time to stop wasting useful metals on useless coins
#2 OTC Birth Control
The progestin pill should be sold over the counter
#3 SMR Nuclear Reactors
We need to scale new smaller safer nuclear reactors ASAP
#4 Voting on Veteran's Day
Move the Veteran's Day holiday to Election Day
#5 A Fraud-Free Counted Vote
Frictionless Voter IDs, guaranteed voting access, all votes counted
#6 Parking Lots of Shade
Solar canopies over most car parks
#7 Social Security Force
Social Security Fund should invest 25% into US index fund stocks
#8 OTC Abortion Pills
Let pharmacists dispense abortion pills in the first 10 weeks
#9 WELCOME Living Wage Employer Tax Credit
Pay a living wage before taxes: The reduction in crime will more than pay for it
#10 Two-Lane Healthcare
Medicare for All with a Fast Lane for Extra Services for Extra Pay
#11 Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
Large employers can keep us safe & productive with higher IAQ standards
#12 End Sugar Subsidies
Subsidizing sugar is wrong on almost every level
#13 Increase the EITC to P50L (halfway to a living wage) for FT
Singles working full-time are closer to a living wage, and FT couples crest a LW
#14 Proportional Representation
Almost none of our votes for the US House count otherwise
#15 Confirm Crucial Government Positions
Most administration transition positions should have a delegated process
#16 Let the States Control Their Own Legal Immigration
Local TAP: Terminate, Accelerate or Pause in off-election years
#17 Pathway to Residency
Non-citizens pay taxes and are keeping supply chains moving
#18 Asteroid Strike Three
Seemingly we are doing enough to protect planet earth
#19 HOPE Drug Harm Reduction
Illegal drug use is more a health problem than criminal
#20 No Mail Mondays
Five-day letter delivery is sufficient, and will stop the losses
#21 Preventing Water Wars
Hydrogen planes would evenly spread potable water equal to Lake Superior/yr
#22 Freezing Rain Forests
Freezing rainforest development needs to be subsidized by industrialized nations
#23 Re-Re-Refrigerants
Worldwide pact to re-gulate & re-use the 4th most chilling greenhouse gas
#24 Death Penalty Reform
Only with incontrovertible evidence to avoid killing innocents
#25 Quick SET Transitional Housing
Allow employable homeless housing in, next to, or near industrial parks
#26 A Grand Supreme Court
Depoliticize SCOTUS, 18 Judges, 18 yr staggered terms, nonpartisan commission
#27 The Sweet Sixteen Year Old Vote
Really, we fought a war against taxation without representation
#28 China is More Friend Than Foe
It appears the China as foe is mostly in the minds of power brokers
#29 Truly OPEN Primaries
Nowhere in the constitution does it say there's two-party rule
#30 Shared FATE STOCK Act
Let Congress invest only their retirement funds in stocks to guide the SS Fund purchases
#31 Candidate Employment Fraud
Candidate's falsifying background affidavit are barred from office
#32 Last, First-Past-the-Post Voting
Approval Voting or Ranked Choice are far superior to 18th century methods
#33 The Original First Amendment
House districts limited to 30,000 citizens, People's House goes large & hybrid
#34 Recycle Nuclear Waste
It's planetary malpractice to bury centuries of free energy in the ground
#35 Permanent Standard Time (End DST)
Stop playing with clocks, Sunset DST (RIP)
#36 The Golden Rule is Still Worthy
Apparently decency is still leaderboard worthy but just barely
#37 Trillion $ Coins
Guarantee the Fed can't default on US debt
#38 Health as Curriculum
Food & Health put STEM in them thar stems
#39 Inflation Blame Game
Almost 2/3rds of us are to blame, and a majority of all four sides of the political table
#40 (Un)Social Media
Social media should have a more social AI moderated option
#41 Mask Marks
Write the name of who you're protecting on your mask to nudge others to mask up
#42 UN-Till Then Farming
A world agreement to transition to low till farming ASAP
#43 Decriminalize Sex Work
Until FT work pays a living wage stop penalizing despair
#44 New NEWS is Good News
Free speech is still free but NEWS organization will have minimum standards
Not quite leaderboard-worthy
but Three-Sides of the Table Support it !!!
Death Penalty Death
Abolish the Death Penalty
Switch to Switch Grass
As bio-fuels go, switch grass looks superior to corn
#SGOSTMFETR
Should government officials stop taking money from entities they regulate?
Partisan Score Board
only Two-Sides of the Table or less
Permanent Daylight Savings Time
Permanent Standard Time outscores permanent DST
Good Cow / Bad Cow
Pastured cattle are great for the planet not so much for the wallet