The Big Ideas Project

Submitted by Marvin Ammori, Affiliate Scholar with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 10, 2014, 1:25 a.m.

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#23

4998 votes

Guaranteed net neutrality. Don't let the cable companies slow down public access so that those with big pockets can pay to speed theirs up

Submitted by Sequoia in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 10, 2014, 3:19 p.m.

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#49

3338 votes

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Major infrastructure investment. Fund a sustained program of $400 billion per year in total non-military physical domestic infrastructure investment using a combination of direct federal borrowing and federal credit support for state and local programs. It would create 4 million direct jobs in place for 10 years, plus jobs created through the impact on consumer demand, plus more jobs created by manufacturing the materials and otherwise indirectly supporting this infrastructure investment.

Submitted by Damon Silvers, Policy Director of the AFL-CIO in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 10, 2014, 2:06 a.m. 1

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#57

3152 votes

Joint support of Post Office and Amtrak to allow Amtrak to move the mail again. Congress removed the authority for Amtrak to serve mail or express business with rail transport of mail. This impacts the Post Office that it can not take advantage of the lower cost of rail movement of mail. This restriction was put in place to insure that airlines, private mail and express firms would face no competition and could charge any price for their service. 1 RR mail car carries more than 5 big trucks.

Submitted by WALTER O. from FL in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 10, 2014, 6:34 p.m. 1

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#76

2708 votes

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Super High Speed Trains (over 300 MPH). If the French, Japanese, Chinese can accomplish these trains why are we stuck with Airlines. Forget Keystone Pipeline for jobs, a high speed train system would employ a lot of workers. additionally, after completion unlike Keystone again it would require a lot of workers

Submitted by Piepie6 in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 10, 2014, 1:41 a.m. 1

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#111

2009 votes

Modernize the national electric grid, so wind power from the Midwest can power the cities on the coasts. This will help in 3 areas: slowing global warming, making energy affordable as world oil supplies dwindle, and creating jobs.

Submitted by Patti B. from MA in Infrastructure & Technology Nov. 16, 2014, 9:21 p.m.

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#139

1652 votes

A new TVA called The Appalachian Industrial Energy Authority to retrain low-wage coal miners with building, maintaining and operating a new green energy power grid in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia using wind and solar energy.

Submitted by Paul Wortman in Infrastructure & Technology Nov. 11, 2014, 4:04 p.m. 1

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#165

1390 votes

Reclassify broadband as a utility (Title II). Large telecom companies' uncompetitive and monopolistic activities are hurting the public and they need to be regulated.

Submitted by Charles Julian Knight in Infrastructure & Technology Jan. 10, 2015, 3:57 p.m. 1

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#291

775 votes

My proposal for a law to save the USPS. Part One:Take out the poison pill of funding pensions for people not yet born. Part Two: Expand what the post office can do, like offer LTE Internet and Satellite television Services for the public at low prices. After all, the Post Office is the only branch of government enumerated specifically to inform the population (through newspaper/magazine distribution to every town in america, no matter population size). USPS Digital Modernization ACT

Submitted by jimzello in Infrastructure & Technology Jan. 4, 2015, 4:39 p.m.

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#306

742 votes

Assess fines to companies that make unsolicited calls/offers to persons on the National Do Not Call Registry. Assess heavy fines when the caller does not display a phone number or allow a call back to occur.

Submitted by Bill Korbel in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 30, 2014, 3:36 p.m.

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#309

730 votes

create a fiber network that is publicly owned that allows free access to all citizens and encourages competition.

Submitted by roxey l. from MI in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 10, 2014, 4:22 p.m.

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#313

723 votes

An energy policy that brings the country together like the space race did in the 1960s

Submitted by John R. from MA in Infrastructure & Technology Nov. 5, 2014, 9:04 p.m.

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#362

622 votes

Much more money should be spent by the federal government to purchase and establish solar photo electric farms. You might not believe this, but it is true that about 250 to 300 square miles of solar panels could product enough electricity to supply THE ENTIRE NEEDS OF THE UNITED STATES. That's a strip 30 miles long by 10 miles wide. Why aren't we doing it? Even spread all over the country in smaller sizes.

Submitted by the answertothegap in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 29, 2014, 11:27 a.m.

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#379

591 votes

We need really good public transportation in cities and between cities to entice people out of their automobiles, as we can see in Europe, Japan and other countries with good sense.

Submitted by Robert Abel in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 17, 2014, 4 p.m.

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#409

545 votes

National broadband

Submitted by Milton Davis in Infrastructure & Technology Nov. 18, 2014, 9:36 a.m.

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#442

490 votes

Promote Solar Energy. Every community in America has a Post Office. Many of these are standalone buildings that are already connected to the power grid. Install Solar Panels on these. Jobs will be created and training will be in place to have solar installers all across the country.

Submitted by JJ in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 10, 2014, 6:52 p.m.

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#454

478 votes

Light rail and public transportation to airports. All major cities in Europe have easy access to airports. Why is it so difficult to get to airports in the US? Minneapolis has an easy light rail to the terminals which is convenient, cheap and comfortable.

Submitted by Judith T. from VT in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 10, 2014, 3:30 p.m.

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#513

399 votes

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