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by micael_dias 1869 days ago
Highlights:

- No income tax for earners below $250k and flat tax of 5-7% above

- Reduce housing bureaucracy and empower licensed engineers to certify building permits

- Solve traffic issues by building tunnels instead of new roads above ground

- Merge high school & community colleges into “Future schools” with teachers earning ~$120k

- Eliminate homelessness with assisted enrolment in housing and “future schools”

- “Partner” with big companies to find what they need to run their businesses more efficiently

- Gun safety: expand access to legally owned guns to reduce number of unknown gun ownership (training required)

- Climate change: create a carbon tax

- Close the DMV and allow DMV certified private companies to administer driving tests and training

- Create virtual IDs to replace plastic IDs

- Eliminate speeding police enforcement and replace it with speeding cameras

- Create Handyperson license and others through future schools

- All state services to accept crypto currency

- Reform welfare benefits to incentivise future school enrolment

- Increase community policing via supervised community service by non-violent criminals

- Law: increase small claims from $10k to $100k

- Legalize and tax, online and in-person gambling

- Lower cannabis age from 21 to 18 and remove some restrictions on cannabis purchases & sales

- Create transition bond to raise money to fund transition that people can invest in