The Big Ideas Project

Make voting mandatory, as is the case in Australia, and levy fines on people who fail to vote. With the money from the fines, establish a fund to pay for political campaigns.

Submitted by oudiva in Government & Elections Dec. 10, 2014, 9:25 a.m.

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#960

170 votes

Support the legalization and market viability of cannabis 110%. Support open market and fair taxation (like Colorado, not WA). Cannabis is safer than alcohol and should be treated as the natural resource our nation needs. Fighting legalization is not progressive.

Submitted by Infinitopolis in Economy & Jobs Dec. 10, 2014, 11:23 a.m.

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#960

170 votes

Give free breakfast and lunch in all public schools! This country has enough food to feed our children! Then give food over vacations!

Submitted by marionfrances in Education Dec. 10, 2014, 8:38 p.m.

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#960

170 votes

We need to help our students in college with their loans. . We need to have a "work for America" program that provides a specific amount of loan forgiveness for a certain time period of work for teaching, social work, child care, geriatric care, and case work for the handicapped or other social work or community service projects such as park maintenance or recreation area clean up and maintenance while teaching job skills to the unemployed.

Submitted by Rex_in_Minnesota in Education Dec. 10, 2014, 6:06 p.m.

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#960

170 votes

Rebuild communities with local power, local food the jobs produced will be local and empowering to the people who need it most.

Submitted by Valerie Bline B. from NY in Society & Community Nov. 12, 2014, 7:40 p.m.

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#965

169 votes

Set a limit on CEO pay of 1 million a year that can be deducted as a legitimate business expense. This would include all forms of compensation, salary, bonus, options gifts ect.. They can pay them as much as they want but anything above 1 million is not deductible.

Submitted by Edmund O. from WA in Taxes & Budget Dec. 10, 2014, 8:10 p.m.

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#966

168 votes

Expand the wilderness system and increase funding for the national parks. Wilderness and national parks play a vital role in climate change and the mitigation of global warming. Rewild America.

Submitted by Keith - Protected Area Management in Environment Jan. 16, 2015, 2:57 a.m.

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#966

168 votes

Create a voting system based on the system used in Venezuela which has some of the most advanced and voter-friendly security features in modern elections. Voters use a touch-sensitive electronic pad to make and confirm their choices. Voters audit their own vote by reviewing a printed receipt that they then place into a physical ballot box. Random ballot boxes (53% of them) are checked to make sure electronic results match the ballots. Other safeguards are built into the system.

Submitted by bigb in Government & Elections Jan. 5, 2015, 1:20 p.m.

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#966

168 votes

Each citizen should get ONE home exemption! Anyone owning two or more should not be able to access home exemptions. If one can afford two or more homes, he/she should be able to pay taxes on the second one!

Submitted by OKIE in Taxes & Budget Jan. 4, 2015, 7:29 p.m.

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#966

168 votes

Free and Fair union elections.

Submitted by Mark R. from FL in Economy & Jobs Dec. 10, 2014, 4:20 p.m.

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#970

167 votes

Constitutional Amendment reserving citizenship, voting, and campaign contributions to living human beings.

Submitted by Susan in Government & Elections Dec. 10, 2014, 4:43 p.m.

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#970

167 votes

Require all manufacturers selling products in the United States to lengthen the planned obsolescence if their products to a more sustainable level or eliminate planned obsolescence all together

Submitted by Jared in Environment Dec. 31, 2014, 11:57 a.m.

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#970

167 votes

Cap higher education tuition. Make it affordable again. Better yet, free. If France can do it, so can we. Banks are making a fortune off of student loans and I suspect encouraging higher ed. institutions to raise their tuition rates to boost student loan lending. Allow student loans to be discharged if an individual cannot make a living in their chosen career. Disallow lenders to seize social security payments to pay off their loans. Create more ways for loans to be forgiven.

Submitted by MGG in Education Dec. 18, 2014, 9:48 p.m.

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#970

167 votes

The US Office of Personnel Management should grant the unemployed top priority when they are applying for Federal jobs. In other words, give the unemployed like the 99ers with "Unemployment Preference" like the government gives to veterans --- Veteran Preference..

Submitted by TIGERPAW in Economy & Jobs Dec. 19, 2014, 5:28 a.m.

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#970

167 votes

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT: The passage of a Legislative Recusal Amendment that constitutionally prohibits legislators from casting any vote(s) or participating in any legislative processes where they have accepted directly or indirectly campaign contributions from persons or entities who seek to benefit from a legislator(s) vote.

Submitted by Mike A. in Government & Elections Dec. 11, 2014, 10:53 a.m.

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#975

166 votes

Make illegal drugs - marijuana, LSD, MMDA, and cocaine - legal for adults. Tax them like alcohol and cigarettes are taxed. This will neuter drug lords and corruption, raise state revenues to historic levels (look at Colorado) and reduce the prison population to a point where private prisons will go out of business. It will also stop politicians from crying poverty whenever they don't like funding important state projects like infrastructure and drug rehab programs etc...

Submitted by Charles L. in Civil Rights Dec. 12, 2014, 12:23 a.m.

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#975

166 votes

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Make the house of representatives a large-district proportional representation system to make gerrymandering impossible. Attached is a study about proportional representation.

Submitted by Sarah Fellman in Government & Elections Dec. 10, 2014, 11:58 p.m.

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#975

166 votes

Prevent credit score checks from affecting credit scores. Credit scores should only reflect one's record for paying debts on time. And credit checks should not be permissible by anyone except the individual and a potential creditor.

Submitted by Timothy Salt in Economy & Jobs Dec. 16, 2014, 4:14 p.m.

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#978

165 votes

Healthcare freedom, justice and equality for all under a not-for-profit public plan. Everyone's medical care should be equal according to the best medical science available, not discriminately based on who we are (what kind of coverage we have or don't) ...from the president on down.

Submitted by rebecca sawyer-spoon in Health Dec. 11, 2014, 10:06 a.m.

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#978

165 votes

HealthCare & Drug Company command exorbitant salary compensation packages (avg.$20 million & Free Health Benefits. Do not forget their Board Of Directors. Their salaries and benefits have been earned Before Obamacare. They are the primary reason why HEALTH CARE IS UNAFFORDABLE. This fact should be in the Hational Spotlight (media, television. Meet The Press;etc HealthCare & Drug Company have seen increases during this tough economic period; while their subscribers have seen higher premiums .

Submitted by JB in Health Dec. 19, 2014, 8:31 a.m.

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#980

164 votes

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