It’s true, it turns out that people have more opportunities and can attain more success and better lives when they’re not totally financially fucked over.
Literally my #1 policy priority.
I’d say:
- Reverse citizens united.
- Institute voting reform, abolishing gerrymandering and introducing ranked choice voting.
- Enshrine reproductive freedom.
- Levy massive wealth taxes to fund social safety nets with an emphasis on Medicare for all.
- Heavily tax non-primary residences, dismantle investing in housing for profit.
- Thoroughly and completely audit the military budget. Cut waste spending.
- UBI
That’s just, like, my personal list, man.
Yeah, it’d be a different list if I was American. Although honestly I’m pretty sure the US government is terminally unable to do any meaningful reforms at this point.
Yeah Canada starts with a massive leg up in that regard. I’d argue wealth tax and housing reform would be necessary to keep UBI from being another source of money for the rich to take from the poor.
My list:
Abolish copyright, benefits, pensions, and the like to replace them with a universal basic income tied to whichever is higher of the comsumer price index or the retail price index.
Fund the previous with a new diminishing returns tax system that effectively caps the amount individuals can make at £2b, and caps revenue of businesses at £10b.
Try to rejoin the EU, if they’re willing to.
Lower the voting age to 16.
Abolish constinuency first-pass-the-post voting for national voting to replace it with ranked choice popular voting.
Ban non-medically necessary mutilation of minors under the age of 13, and non-consenting citizens above that age.
You have my vote.
“Mutilation of minors” is an emotional term and not a legal or scientific one, if you mean gender transition or circumcision just say it. And I’m pretty sure nonconsentual “mutilation” of any adult is already illegal.
He’s probably talking about circumcision.
When applied to females, it’s called Female Genital Mutilation.
When applied to males, it’s just called circumcision.
Both are barbaric and unnecessary practices to conduct routinely without a direct medical need.
Fun facts: Egypt still mutilates their girls. Americans mutilate their boys because their dads don’t want to admit something is wrong with their penises, so they fuck up their sons’ too.
Probably, but people who are against gender affirming surgeries would also use the term mutilation, so it can be a bit of a vague term
That’s what happens when you try to use emotional language instead of specifics.
Yeah, “mutilation” is pretty charged. Maybe just “modification”, which would include gender affirming types, even the ones for intersex people that bigots will ask for.
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Fucking Amen. I can’t believe, especially non-religious people, still commit this barbaric and unnecessary act. But some people are still under the quaker influenced thinking that circumcision means cleaner, both my mother in law and my step mother think it’s “gross” to leave a child uncircumcised, with my mother in law going as far as to say “it just looks bad”.
Cool, she basically admitted she’s down to mutilate babies to satisfy a completely unreasonable aesthetic preference.
Well, there’s other varieties of male GM as well, although you hear less about them. For example, slicing it open lengthwise, either fully or just to “unroll” it.
There is a definite double standard for the one kind of GM white people do. It’s all bad before a child can consent, and some of the female forms are pretty comparable to circumcision, so maybe we can “get off our high horse”.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
resident was a student at Trent University in 2017 when then-premier Kathleen Wynne’s government launched the largest basic income pilot North America had seen in 50 years.
Authors write it made participants feel more dignified, proud and confident, allowed them more agency in how they spent their time and money, and did not seem to disincentivize work.
“Almost every single person we spoke with used basic income in a positive way to improve their lives … [the program] worked precisely as it was meant to.”
David said often, conversation around basic income is limited to labour market impact, but what people really wanted to talk about was being able to afford things like nice glasses, their child’s favourite food or a new mattress.
She’s now the interim executive director of food security non-profit The Nourish and Develop Foundation, and says that although speaking about one’s experience with social assistance can come with a lot of stigma, it’s important to advocate.
Topfer contributed to a zine David and her BICYN co-chair Chloe Halpenny produced based on the new report and then distributed to schools, libraries and elected officials throughout the country.
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Who makes those nice glasses, produces that food or works in a mattress factory if demand becomes that much higher but 5 percent of your workforce decides to retire earlier or take on less productive work?
Seriously what do you spend all this new free money on when there are less cogs being built? Who will build these houses that are needed when you don’t have to work to make a basic income?
