What If? (Number 1)
What if :
all organized religions did not exist and ethics in the world was governed by the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
What if:
All children had good schools with good teachers, good health care, safe neighborhoods……that’s called a level playing field with the same amount of tax money being spent on all children.
What if:
the minimum wage level, which was sufficient back in the 50’s for a single person to support a family with a used car and a decent place to live, had risen automatically with the cost of living. (It would be $21 today).
What if:
child support payments were the same for all children, not $40,000/month for some and $0/per month for others. Whatever is a reasonable cost to raise a child, shouldn’t this be the same for all children being raised by a single parent?
What if:
A global tax revenue was used to ensure all humans were treated for curable diseases. Why should any child die in a civilized world because they don’t have access to a vaccination, drugs, or an operation?
What if
there were global living minimum wages? Sounds like an economic stimulus better than waiting for some trickle down. Until there is a global minimum wage there will always be workers forced to work for slave labor wages and thereby prevent workers elsewhere from making a living wage.
What if,;
to start a war, every citizen over 21 had to either be in a draft pool or pay a tax surcharge to cover the costs of the war, including the elderly? Might be a few less wars and no more wars on borrowed money.
What if:
sport monopolies concentrated on sports and let the court system handle infractions for behaviors off the field…..
What if:
National sport monopolies were owned by cities and licensed only to play in a particular city. No more blackmailing to leave if taxpayers won’t foot the bill for a stadium.
What if:
National Sport monopolies were required to set up a reasonable salary schedule based on the athlete’s past year performance and once this reasonable salary schedule was set up salaries then only went up with the cost of living? Why should any monopoly have ‘the sky is the limit’ for their own salaries? It would end the farce of owners and the player’s union debating only how much of the income each side gets.
What if:
National sport monopolies were required to sell a certain percentage of tickets (4 per winner) at a reasonable price via a lottery so all economic level fans could afford to go to a game if they won tickets from the fan lottery. Probably the poorest of fans might like to have a chance to go to a game once in a while. These are, after all, national sports.
What if:
National sport monopolies were themselves bound to any contract with players, not just the player bound….perhaps with a salary schedule this would not be such a problem
What if:
All sport monopoly arbitrations were conducted by a neutral party with no ties to either management or the players union….
What if :
All sport monopolies had a Commissioner appointed by the President with no ties to either management or the players union?
What if:
Once a reasonable and effective income tax level for all levels of income is established, taxes increase automatically with the cost of living. No more opportunity for politicians to win elections based on lowering taxes.
What if:
Every adult had the right to control his/her own dying process via procedures which protected this right from abuses.
What if:
all campaign ads were abolished on media, and party chosen candidates just given X number of debates to be covered on all media outlets at the Presidential and Congressional level. Get the garbage off the air as a public service. Local candidates would just get one free policies statement to local residents.
What if:
there were addiction centers all over the country for those with addictions of any sort. No more making addictions a police/jail game. If a crime is committed the person is tried for the crime, period.
What if:
all citizens were guaranteed a job of some sort at their level of capability (up to a point). Failure to perform the job satisfactorily deprives a citizen of any further government benefits.
What if:
we went back to what worked in the past, for all levels of income, by a progressive income tax up to 90% and inheritance taxes which blocked massive transfers of wealth to offspring.
What if:
all young people past the age of 21 were expected to earn wealth on their own? That seems a better fit for the American Way. It always seems a tad strange that a very wealthy person who earned their wealth would brag about getting their wealth the old fashioned way—“I earned it” and then deprive his offspring of the right to brag the same way.
What if:
All judges who meet certain criteria who would qualify them to be a Supreme Court Judge had their names put in a hat, and a name drawn out whenever there was a vacancy. Why would we want politicians in Congress to control who gets on the Supreme Court?
What if:
All judges on the Supreme Court had a mandatory retirement age? Why would we want to run the risk of some judge deciding cases who is dead from the neck up, or just naturally age demented, or just living in some ages old cultural past.
What if:
Every worker was guaranteed 6 weeks vacation as in some countries already. Modern science has made the need for everyone to work so much obsolete. By allowing some to do this, out of greed, it leaves many without work. Not good.
What if:
There were global laws to enforce responsible reproduction? Let people who want more than two children adopt children from those who broke the law and paid a steep tax for having done so. Of course such adoptions would have to be regulated to avoid monkey business.
What if:
terrorists were not given any publicity for their acts and anyone who gives them such publicity be tossed in jail for inciting terrorism.
What if:
One week out of the six weeks paid vacation were by law spent on cleaning up national parks and other such environmental wonders?
What if:
All tax shelters were simply eliminated? The whole purpose of these laws is criminal.
What if:
the farce called boxing were eliminated as a medical absurdity. In what other sport does the top contender get to choose who and when their next opponent will be” “Congratulations Green Bay for winning the Super Bowl. Now which team, and when do you expect to play next. Do you have any idea when the next Superbowl will be?” Any sport where the primary objective is to produce brain damage, enough for a knock out sometimes.
What if:
The national debt was paid off on an installment plan with every citizen paying their fair share based on some sort of progressive payment plan with the wealthy, those with the most of our wealth, paying a higher percentage than those with the least amount of our national wealth. This would stop politicians from playing the endless game of protecting their base from paying off the debt and sticking it to the political base of another political party. This ‘certain’ people or groups are going to pay the piper gets a bit tiresome. Everyone should have to pay the piper here and every generation should pay it’s own way.
