To have some fun, here's the my top 10 list of implementations I would make if I was a "Benevolent" dictator of my country. Yes, I know the framing of being a benevolent dictator is pretty much an oxymoron, and automatically puts you in a grouping with some fairly unsavory characters. If you can't appreciate this as being somewhat tongue and check, try to absorb it as just a list of things I think we'd be better off if we had the stomach to make happen.
- Voting reform: Institute federal voting standards for federal elections, and require an instant runoff system instituted for the top 5 vote draws in the party primary elections.
- If we ever see a peace time again, establish a classification for certain military units to be designated as part time public service/job corp type functions while continuing training to keep battle readiness.
- Make natural resource planning extend significantly beyond 40 years.
- Establish a program to create a self sufficient population on an off Earth location (Moon/Mars/in orbit)
- Tax capital gains as ordinary income, implement an added tax penalty for short term capital gains if there is a need to maintain a difference.
- Make it illegal to require green laws via HOA during droughts.
- Require legislated financial limits financial minimums (minimum wage/tax codes) be linked in some way (possibly with a delay) to inflation.
- Standardize car bumper heights.
- Implement national referendums.
- Work toward a cure for IPv6.
I'm toying with keeping this as a dynamic post, so I'm starting it out with a section for ideas that get "bumped". If you have a list of 10, or close to it to, I'd love to see them.
Ideas voted off from the top 10:
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