The Big Ideas Project

Get the NLRB back labor friendly and start supporting collective bargaining again /unions. For too long the NLRB has been management friendly stunting economic improvement for middle class jobs. Also, get shed of these one-sided trade agreements that encourage moving good paying American jobs overseas.

Submitted by David M. from OK in Economy & Jobs Nov. 16, 2014, 6:06 p.m.

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#321

706 votes

Tax pesticides for the damage they do. Use the funds to pay for any needed clean up or inspection, also perhaps to support organic foods. Organic foods are only expensive because they're small scale. When prices equalize consumers can choose for health rather than cost, and organic production should increase rapidly. Soon prices will be better than now and the environment will be healing.

Submitted by Tim in Environment Jan. 4, 2015, 1:48 p.m.

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#322

703 votes

Realistic and practical changes to promote conservation and shift towards renewable energy. Provide tiered tax benefits to businesses and consumers who derive 10, 25, 50, and 75% of their energy from renewable sources. Rework current tax benefits to energy companies to tier benefits by how much of their energy production is from clean sources, and the expansion of existing or bringing online of renewable energy sources.

Submitted by BadAdamD in Environment Jan. 8, 2015, 4:29 p.m.

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#322

703 votes

Offer debt forgiveness to countries that maintain their rain-forests and who reduce carbon emissions, turn to solar and wind energy. The world has no boundaries. Ban the owning of water and the destruction of water sources through any means - including fracking, dumping, leaks, mining, and war.

Submitted by jneel in Environment Jan. 15, 2015, 11:07 a.m.

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#322

703 votes

Make agriculture subsidies dependent on practicing environmentally responsible agroecology practices. Shift a significant percentage of subsidies towards local food systems, small-scale farms, community gardens, and encouraging permaculture.

Submitted by Zach N. in Environment Dec. 11, 2014, 10:46 a.m.

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#325

702 votes

Require food to be tested for levels of residual pesticide, herbicide, heavy metals, and anything toxic to the human body. Require food labels to contain a list of all pesticides and herbicides used in production, and how much of these poisons remain in the food product.

Submitted by insight in Health Jan. 14, 2015, 7:32 p.m.

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#326

698 votes

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It's time to set term limits for the Supreme Court Justices and end their Career Statuses and make it a criminal act to be bought and paid for by the wealthy and big Corporations. Do not allow them to be above the laws and hold them accountable for their rulings in favor of Big Corporations and Billionaire sponsored organizations. It's time for a "SCOTUS Cleansing"

Submitted by George L. D. from OH in Government & Elections Dec. 9, 2014, 11:14 p.m.

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#327

697 votes

Make Solar Water heaters free for Seniors, the Disabled, and the Poor. They are cheap to build and easy to install, that alone will cut the power cost for these folks by nearly 1/3rd. The savings to the gas and electricity demands would be huge. This would also create thousands and thousands of jobs and would teach great skills to the now unskilled.

Submitted by GlennB in Environment Dec. 10, 2014, 3:16 p.m.

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#328

696 votes

Clamp down on Pentagon overspending - once and for all. The Pentagon is NOT a jobs program, nor is it corporate welfare for Boeing and Haliburton. Implement an immediate Pentagon spending freeze. Order a comprehensive audit of the entire Pentagon budget. Require the Pentagon to account for every dollar of its spending. End funding for all programs that cannot demonstrate national security value. Require competitive bidding. End no-bid contracts and under-the-table sweetheart deals.

Submitted by Mystic Michael in Foreign Policy & Military Dec. 27, 2014, 12:07 a.m.

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#329

694 votes

End religious indoctrination in public schools

Submitted by chas in Education Jan. 4, 2015, 4:51 p.m.

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#330

693 votes

If corporations are people, arrest them for their crimes. It would force the right-wing Supreme Court to take the stance that sometimes corporations AREN'T people - important legal precedent.

Submitted by mad b. from PA in Government & Elections Dec. 27, 2014, 3:32 a.m.

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#330

693 votes

The police are expected to deal with all the hand guns & assault weapons on the street which has created a situation to shoot first. If Congress passed laws to prohibit all the gun carry state laws, require background checks for unstable gun owners, & prohibit all assault weapons for individual ownership in America, our police forces would feel safer dealing with the public & murders would be reduced in America. More people might sign on if the laws were for police protection.

Submitted by Vicki in NJ in Society & Community Jan. 3, 2015, 9:05 p.m.

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#332

689 votes

Get back to glass. Why does everything we consume have to be wrapped and packaged and contained in PLASTIC? Plastic is petroleum. Glass is sand. Glass can be made in the good old USA. IF it worked for our grandparents, why not us? Not even to mention it is enormously recyclable!

Submitted by Feef Mooney in Environment Dec. 10, 2014, 4:41 p.m.

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#333

686 votes

Our present government is paralyzed by partisan politics. If politicians are unable to do the peoples work than the stubborn, uncompromising politicians should have their job benefits reduced or eliminated, depending on their inflexibility.

Submitted by Anne F. from MA in Government & Elections Jan. 15, 2015, 10 a.m.

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#334

684 votes

RE: 2nd AMENDMENT. Since it clearly links the necessity of citizens owning guns to the state's need for a well-armed militia, let's require that all gun owners be members subject to call-up of the national guard, which I think is the closest thing we have to militias today.

Submitted by K.D. in Civil Rights Jan. 3, 2015, 3:28 p.m.

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#335

682 votes

A new ELECTION WEEKEND in the United States should replace the tired old Election Tuesday -- which is a busy workday for most people, and only the stipulation of a long-obsolesced 1845 law, not a Constitutional provision. Working-class folks, young people, people of color, seniors, and transportation-challenged Americans will all be helped to vote by scheduling U.S. elections to occur on Saturdays and Sundays instead of on Tuesdays. We can start with Election Weekends in cities and metro areas.

Submitted by Gregory Wright, ADA So Cal Board Member in Government & Elections Dec. 22, 2014, 5:29 a.m.

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#336

674 votes

Organic farmers need to have the the same rights as the Monsanto/corporate/big agriculture/ backing- and end the Monsanto poison in our lives!!!

Submitted by Heidi S. from OH in Health Jan. 8, 2015, 4:20 p.m.

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#336

674 votes

Amend the constitution to create an absolute vote guarantee for all citizens, placing strict penalties for any individuals, organizations or government entities that interfere with or unduly restrict voting, directly or indirectly. Currently the American right to vote is not specifically and directly guaranteed in the constitution, but only "inferred" in the amendments that restrict some specific forms of voter suppression.

Submitted by Robert E. Sojka in Government & Elections Dec. 10, 2014, 2:12 p.m.

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#338

673 votes

All politicians who are determined to get rid of Obamacare must be forced to give their taxpayer paid for health care to someone in their state who has no health care.

Submitted by Gay N. from MO in Health Jan. 3, 2015, 4:10 p.m.

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#338

673 votes

Reduce the power of the NSA to collect the private data of millions of people, eliminate the president's power to declare anyone an enemy combatant or supporting terrorism without all the rights guaranteed them in the bill of rights, protect whistleblowers who bring force transparency into our governmental processes.

Submitted by Mary C. from NY in Civil Rights Nov. 16, 2014, 5:33 p.m.

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#338

673 votes

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