Okay here we go stay with me till the end...
Resend the collection of taxes through paychecks. Then create a national tax and vote holiday on april 14,15,16. During those 3 days you must go to the local court house and pay ALL your taxes for the year in person. After that is completed, you would then vote in national,state and local elections, for the people that would be spending all your money.
The effect? Nearly 100% voter turnout of motivated freshly demonetized tax payers that would have much greater discernment of who they vote for and why.
Tell me that wouldn’t make a difference?
It should be illegal for the federal government to dictate education policy.
Abolish the US Postal Service. Policy arguments for the bill could be both (1) being true to America’s policy of outlawing monopolies, and (2) from a free-market approach, discuss how the Post Office is so much more inefficient (cost and otherwise) than private companies that overlap with some of its services (such as DHL and FedEx).
Good luck in law school! As someone who is finishing her last few weeks of it, I know how hard you’ve worked to get where you are today :)
How about a law stating that every American citizen of legal age shall be required to serve as the country’s “militia” from threats both foreign and domestic? The “we the people militia” will be required to carry guns and prove they know how to use them.
If I were you, I would start by thinking of something that really annoys or worries people. Then propose that it be illegal and that the annoyed/worried person can sue and recover some small ammount of damages.
Recent examples from the real world:
Restricting or prohibiting certain telemarketing calls.
Prohibiting junk faxes.
Making it unlawful to print someone's credit card acct # and exp date on a receipt.
You can do this -- on your own -- just use your noggin.
looses = loses (but Im sure you knew dat)
Here are a couple of suggestions:
1. Make “baseline budgeting” illegal. Absolutely NO automatic built-in spending increases allowed in any governmental spending plan. This will mean that the words “cut” and “increase” have genuine meaning in budget discussions and the scumbag politicians will no longer be able to squeal like pigs out both sides of their mouths (at least when talking about budgte numbers).
2. No employer shall be required to “withhold” taxes (ie., be forced to work for the government without compensation), and no income taxes may be legally accepted by the government unless those taxes are paid directly by the taxpayer (cash, check, money order, or electronic transfer).
Good luck!
LH
Abolish Daylight Savings Time!
Here is one more that one day I will put on a proposition here in California...( God knows it would never get passed in our legislature.
In the same way trial lawyers created the anti-tobacco atmosphere to gain HUGE profits through the taxing of tobacco products ( that was their bribe to the law makers) and the suing of big tobacco. I do not smoke by the way.
Levy a 33% tax on ALL attorneys fees, with that money ONLY to fund dispute resolution education, advertising and then courts and processes that would be manditory to participate in before you can file a case in court.
Once you did file your case the both parties would have to pay 20% of the amount of their attorney fees ( win or lose) to the courts. Then and only then you can present your case to a panel of people, the majority made up of people without any graduate degrees who will decide if your case has merit.
If this panel believes your case is frivolous you will then be forced to attend a mandatory 120 hour “frivolous case sensitivity training” ( Designed by me by the way) before you would be allowed to file another case in court.
I thought of another one (which would almost single-handedly fix everything that is wrong with our civil law system in this country):
- implement a “loser pays” all court costs & attorneys’ fees system in all civil lawsuits.
Read Starship Troopers from heinlein. Only veterans had the right to vote.
how about a law that says only property owners can vote... like in the old days...
What law school do you go to? I’m a lawyer, out of law school 10 years, and I’ve got to say no self-respecting law prof at my alma mater would have toss out an assignment like that - it’s about the softest of softballs I’ve ever seen lobbed at a law student.
Require law school exchange programs where students from the top 20 law schools have to spend a semester at randomly selected 4th tier law schools and a 4th tier student spends the semester at a top 20 law school.
Abolish the Blue Book and Shepards.
Require all 1st year law students to read Blackstone's Commentaries and randomly selected Yearbooks of Edward III and Richard II.
Limit the franchise to veterans.
Institute the librium veto whenever a Democrat is in the White House or in control of either house of Congress.
Here is one that I have for some time thought would be worthwhile:
“Upon reaching the age of 18 all males must register for service in the armed forces (nothing new with that part) AND also present themselves for a reversable vasectomy, at government expense. Upon presentation of a valid marriage license and certificate of marriage, they may then have the vasectomy reversed, at government expense”.
Every legislator should be required to wear a full-face motorcycle helmet while performing public business.
Ok here is another one of my pet ideas:
“Before any American citizen can qualify to run for any Congressional office (House or Senate) or the President or Vice President of the U.S., they must have owned and operated, for no less than five consecutive years, a business that employed no less than four individuals, none of whom can be members of the candidtate’s immediate family”
I would endorse a new law that bans the banning things. This would make it much harder for liberals to continue their socialist efforts to control every aspects of our lives.
Right behind that, I woud pass a law that makes Congress a part-time legislature. They should convene for no more than four months per year and only every other year. This would limit the mischief and damage they do to our nation. The bums would also have to get real jobs to make ends meet.
Shoot that's what I do for a living. A lot of it depends on what state you are in.
Read your local newspaper and consider well publicized crimes recently in your area and how they might be averted in the future. How about a lower tax on something? How about making vagrants convicted for multiple offenses work off their time cleaning up your nearby skid row. One idea would be a law to make CCWs easier in the wake of the VT shootings where no one was able to fend off the shooter.