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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voting holidays tend to be a problem because many of the people least able to take time to vote would be considered “essential” and still end up working on the holiday.

Better to make voting holidays entirely unnecessary by relying on vote by mail and a week long opportunity to drop of ballots at secure locations.

Also, you might be able to simplify the voting method a bit by just requiring a candidate to win a majority (not plurality) of the votes. This would encourage districts to explore alternatives to first past the post because otherwise they would constantly need runoff elections.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Voting day being a holiday would be mostly symbolic. It also helps to ensure that there is no discrimination around the UBI bonus for voting. If an employer forced an employee to work on voting day then it would be grounds for a lawsuit because it's a holiday. And yes, there would be weeks to vote by mail and vote early in person ahead of the actual voting day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Carbon tax, eliminate cheap/free parking, congestion tax in cities. Using the roads and causing noise/danger to others while polluting should never be cheaper than using public transportation (not counting parking, which should be it's own private cost not passed on to society).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Transition to metric system

Lol what

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Businesses shouldn't be allowed to purchase residential houses, they can do apartments but no family homes, even if it's split.

Political donations should be illegal except from a private civilian who must follow all rules and limitations. If a corporation thinks a specific politician is in their best interest the corporation's then the only option should be employees should be the ones to donate their personal money up to their limit and not funded from the company itself, a business or pact should have no sway in an election and should only be influenced by individual voters. That way the individual can decide if that politician is best suited for the country or just their business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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