Better Economic System Constitution

The Entirety of the US constitution plus changes:

The 2nd amendment will not read: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

But will also read: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. This does not only mean a militia, but any individual’s right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Any individual’s right to bear arms shall not be regulated by the federal government.”

Congress and/or the federal government do NOT have the power to regulate interstate commerce. Supreme Court Justices must interpret this constitution as the framers intended it.

99% of all federal legislation passed or proposed, including but not limited to, The Jones Act, Anti-Racism in Public Health, Infrastructure and Jobs Act, Safe Banking Act, For The People Act, Gun Violence Prevention Act, Skills Visa Act, Able Act, Paycheck fairness Act, Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, and almost countless others, will no longer be active or given any funding.

The reason this is 99 and not 100 is because of things that should be kept, like the Equal Rights Act and stuff like that.

The 7th Article of the Constitution

Section 1: Battling Hypocrisy

All congressmen and congresswomen must follow all the laws and regulations that they pass and legislate. No person from the government shall get special treatment from the legislature that they pass. What is applied to the public is applied to them. In addition, laws and regulations passed which apply to the members of congress and/or in any and/or all federal government positions or departments, shall apply to the public as well.

Section 2: Taxes

There shall not be a federal corporate income tax. There shall not be a federal inheritance tax. States may decide further what taxes they impose.

There is only one way which the federal government can tax its citizens. This is through a single flat-bracket personal income tax which applies to all citizens equally, and does not vary or change on the account of race, sex, income (except those qualified for the negative income tax, explained in the 33rd amendment).

The federal personal income tax rate, voted on by congress, shall be a flat tax, without brackets, and never surpass 20%.

Congress shall not set the federal personal income tax above 15% unless the passed tax rate will last for one year or less at a time, with a waiting (or “gap”) period of at minimum 8 years of any passed tax rate above 10%. During the gap 8 years, no US citizen will be required to pay more than 10% of their annual income in federal taxes.

Congress shall not set the federal personal income tax above 10% unless the passed tax rate will last for two years or less at a time, with a waiting (or “gap” period of at minimum 8 years of any passed tax rate above 10%. The same rules in the previous paragraph apply.

Section 3: Unions

Federal public-sector unions may not exist. State public-sector unions may not exist. Organizations may form, but not for purposes of collective labor bargaining.

States may further decide their regulations and/or existence of private-sector labor unions.

No private sector unions may force anyone or any organization to do anything. They may use no force of any kind by any unions, ever. Blackmailing shall not occur. Union members of unions may not force anybody to join or become a member. Union members may not force anybody to pay money or dues to union members, and Union members may not force anybody to dedicate any of their time, money, or effort to the organization/union.

Section 4: Government Regulatory Programs

The amount of government programs that the federal government can have at any one time shall not be in excess of 10. No federal government program which is intended to regulate anything in the private sector may operate or have a budget for more than 5 years, with a waiting period of 5 years before it may begin operation again, and cannot begin operation again unless voted back into place by congress, or if ordered by the President.

Section 5: No Minimum Wage

There shall not now and not ever be a federal minimum wage. This cannot be altered by changes to the constitution.

Section 6: Little Federal Welfare

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The only welfare distributed to anyone by the federal government will be through the negative income tax.

The negative income tax will operate as described below:

All citizens who make an annual personal income of less than $10,000 (adjust for inflation, this is the value of $10,000 in 2021), may have a payment (if said person asks), from the federal government, of a calculated amount based on the tax function:

Exact formula:

y=0.001rx-10

Where y=tax percentage owed, r=rate set by congress, and x=income of citizen

Which is explained here:

At the bottom, if a citizen makes no annual income, they will be qualified for aid of $500 (adjust for inflation, this is the value of $500 in 2021) for each year in which they make this income.

(If they choose to get a job and make an income on their own, which is what the system encourages them to do, they may have their own income, in addition to their slightly reduced federal aid package; the federal aid decreases with their increased income.)

The “break-even” point will be an income of $5,000, paying no federal tax at all, and receiving no federal aid at all.

The “recovered” point will be an income of $10,000, where said citizen pays the normal flat-bracket federal income tax.

The slope of the tax function for which those making between $5,000 and $10,000 annually will be straight and linear; there will be no tax “brackets”, or Bezier curves.

Adjust for inflation for all of the above (this is 2021).

Section 7: Immigration

All people who enter the country must be legally documented. The process of which people come in should be very easy, and very quick for as many people as possible. Nobody may be denied entry on the account of race, sex, age, or income. Any person who wants to enter the border who has a criminal past will be reviewed and decided on citizenship or entry to the country by the Border Control Department.

If said person has a medium-to-severe record, they will not be admitted citizenship or entry to the United States. However, if they show signs of improvement through time on their record, that is what will be up to the Border Control Department to decide.

Section 8: Little Public Education

The Federal Government shall not fund any education-related institutions. Individual States shall not offer funding to more than 3 schools per state, including their grade schools and higher education. Only counties/local governments may fund schools or educational institutes exceeding 3 in number per county.

Section 9: Legislative and Executive Action, and Word Count

Any Executive Orders proposed, and laws and regulations proposed in congress shall be immediately brought to the public, within 24 hours. Congress may not pass said laws or regulations until they have been brought to the public.

All the regulations and laws and executive orders and congressional Acts passed during each 10 years must not exceed an accumulative word count (of all regulations and laws and executive orders) of 25,000 words for that decade (which is a maximum of 2,500 words of legislature each year. In a standard 12-point-font size, that would fill 5 pages, single spaced.).

However, any sentence included in legislature passed or executive orders which regulates the federal government shall not be included in the word count. Said sentences may have their own word count—if anyone is willing to make one. But the second said word count will not be regulated (will not have a maximum to the word count).

Section 10: No Student Loans

The Federal Government shall not loan money to any individuals for purposes of paying off student loan debt for any education.

Section 11: No Nationalizing an Industry

The Federal Government shall not pay for insurance of any type, including but not limited to healthcare, house insurance, car insurance, and life insurance.

The Federal Government shall not charge or pay a social security or any type of unemployment pension now or ever. Medicare or Medicaid will not be given out to people by the federal government, and funds will not be collected for them, by the federal government. Individual states may decide if they want to do that.

The Federal Government shall not nationalize any industry, including but not limited to the steel industry, oil industry, aviation industry, space industry, construction industry, railroad industry, mailing industry, manufacturing industry, farming industry, energy industry, printing industry, technology industry, news media industry, and retail industry.

Nationalizing in this context means any government ownership of production of goods or services.

Section 12: Eight-Year Work Limit and Term Limits

No person shall work for the federal government for more than 8 years in their life. No person shall serve more than two terms in the federal government in their life.

This means that a president may be elected twice, if they had no federal employment, or a representative can be elected twice, if they had at most 4 years of federal employment. This means that a senator may only have one term of 6 years, and if they choose, they may fill the remaining 2 years with further federal work, and this means that said person may not become senator if they worked for the federal government for more than 2 years.

Section 13: Negative Incentive against gov programs and legislation

For each individual federal government program and piece of legislation that is passed or ordered, all people who implement the program or legislation (including but not limited to politicians holding office, and bureaucrats writing the laws and regulations) receive 5% less salary, per person per program/legislation.

Section 14: Eliminating Logrolling

Each law congress passes shall be voted on and passed individually; members of congress shall not combine laws into a single massive bill to be passed.

Section 15: Spending Transparency

Any lawmaker who proposes a federal agency, program, or project, and every president who delivers an executive order, must have an accurate calculation of the total cost for that project’s setup, and an accurate calculation of the total cost for that project to run each year, listed in the proposal and must be announced to congress at the proposal.

As said in the 36th amendment, any and all laws, regulations, executive orders must be brought to the public within 24 hours of it’s proposal. The name of the legislature/order, the entirety of the content, and the total sum cost of the project (in setup, and annual operation) must be brought to the public.

Section 16: Spending Limit

The combined total spending of the entirety of the Federal Government each year may not be more than 1% of the Gross GDP.

Section 17: Limited Spending Incentive

All policy-makers, including members of congress, the president their staff and vice president and their staff, may only spend money through the federal budget if the fraction of the federal budget being spent is the same fraction of the income taxes said policy maker paid.

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For example, let’s say the federal income tax rate is 5%, and X-policy-maker makes an annual income of $100,000, therefore paying $5,000 in income taxes. Let’s say the total budget for congress that year was $1 trillion. X-policy-maker voted to approve a budget plan for a federal government project, like infrastructure or military, in which $200 billion would be spent, which is 20% of the total budget, increasing the total budget. X-policy-maker must pay 20% of his income taxes directly on their project.

How this would work makes the taxes which policy-makers spend much more transparent. The goal of this is to make policy-makers aware and much more careful about spending money, in addition to creating an annoying “negative incentive” to passing new federal spending plans, by having to go to the trouble of paying the money themselves, rather than having the IRS do all of it. Afterall, no money is spent more carefully than your own.

Policy makers will pay their taxes to the IRS as usual, but also subtract the fraction of the federal budget they spent on a new project that they voted on to approve, and pay that individual chunk of the amount they pay in taxes directly to the organizations or federal projects they passed, with the IRS’s approval. This portion of the amendment only applies for policy-makers, and it is only for those who voted ‘yes’ on a new federal project which was passed.

So X-policy-maker would pay 20% of the $5,000 they pay in income taxes ($1,000) to the project they passed, if they voted ‘yes’, and the remaining 80% of the $5,000 ($4,000), would be paid to the IRS as usual.

This is a work in progress, I’d like to make it much more simple with your help.

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Section 18: New Executive Administration

If the Gross GDP of a year is less than 103% of the Gross GDP of the previous year, a new Presidential Election will take place, a new or re-elected President and administration will be voted into office, but that election will not elect any congressional seats.

The new or re-elected President, who was president just previously, may not run for the next term but may run for term after the next term, if the President was in office for 4 years or less. If the President was in office for 1 year, they may run for a term of 4 years. If the President was in office for 2 years, they may run for a term of 2 years. If the President was in office for 3 years, they may run for a term of 1 year.

If the Gross GDP of a year is less than 100% of the GDP of the previous year, a new Presidential Election will take place, a new President and administration will be voted into office, and that election will determine the entirety of all new congress seats. Same system as before, from: “Said President may not...term of 1 year”.

Section 20: Easy Reset When Needed

Every 10 years, a nation-wide vote will occur. This vote will determine by a “yes” or “no” if the country must reset it’s government. If a popular vote of at least 40% votes to reset, then all laws, regulations, acts passed, constitutional amendments (down to the last amendment implemented when this constitution goes into effect, in other words meaning: these constitutional amendments which went into effect at the same time with this constitution will not be removed), executive orders, and all policies implemented or paid for by the federal government will cease effect, and all budgets eliminated, all positions which were implemented after this constitution goes into effect will be removed, except for positions and amendments which exist at the moment this constitution is put into effect.

If that vote is at least 25%, but less than 40%, then all of the above will occur, except constitutional amendments added after this constitution goes into effect will not be removed.

Section 21: No Say in Employment

The federal, state, and local government shall have no say in whether any person can be hired by any other person or group(s) of people in the private sector. This means that there is no federal minimum wage, as discussed in the 32nd amendment. There are also no trade licenses required by the federal government, not now, and not ever. No person ever has to ask or request the federal government to legally practice their trade.

Separate from employment, a “Certificate of Necessity” will never be required. No business, company, or corporation has to ask or request the federal government to exist. This does not only mean during its startup, but anytime. This does not mean that said business (etc) does not ever have to register their said business (etc).

Section 22: States Incentives

States will have more government freedom if they impose all of the following:
A word count maximum on all legislature passed by their state government.
A “reset vote” occurs every 10 or fewer years at a time, allowing citizens to vote to remove all state legislatures, laws, and regulations, and start again.
No trade licenses or requirement of any government approval of any person’s desire to practice a trade.
All students (parents) receive the option for a school voucher paid for by their local or state government, whomever funds public schools (if both fund schools, both fund vouchers).
The states which impose all of the above into their state constitution are allowed to directly employ more than 1000 regular state government workers/employees (including politicians).

States who do not impose the above may not directly employ more than 1000 regular state government workers/employees (including politicians).

Section 23: New Voting Age

No person shall be denied the right to vote if the voter is over the age of 23. No person shall be granted the right to vote in national elections unless the voter is over the age of 23.

Regulatory changes

Something needs to be done about the fact that very wealthy people can take advantage of capitalism and do something that it is not intended to be used for; suddenly lowering prices to extreme lows to destroy competition, and then raise them back up to hold a larger portion of the GDP and customers. Jeff Bezos has done this (at least with wages, idk about prices). He made Amazon’s minimum wage $15 per hour, which he could afford. Then he advocated for a government-set $15, by lobbying congress, to challenge Walmart and Target.

A proposal for this issue is to either limit their ability to destroy competition, or encourage them to not destroy competition. This can be done either by simply and impulsively making a law that essentially is just a price control or wage control on the biggest companies. Or, they could be financially incentivised by something like a tax break to not do such a thing.

But on the other hand, going back to the “impulsive price control” idea, if it only applied to the top 5 or 10 companies, in the words of something like “The 5 companies with the highest annual income according to the Internal Revenue Service may not change their prices on goods or services below 90% of the market price for said good or service for more than 14 days, or until the market price changes. If the market price does change, the amount below 90% will apply to the new price”

If this is implemented, then those top 5 companies will first, just elude the Internal Revenue Service, or maybe partially barter, or do less business with their customers, in order to not be on the “top 5” list, whichever method they find cheapest. We, as a nation, do not want successful companies to elude the IRS, or do less business with the public. We want them to keep doing business, therefore benefiting the public, and to follow the law. But some of them may find it easier to simply do that; they may agree to the price controls. Also, there would have to be a couple companies with those price controls in each respective industry.

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Second, something needs to be done about lobbying. There are two main things to consider: the people, including businesses, should be allowed to lobby, so that they can get their message heard in government. The other item is that the process can be abused and corrupted, by large companies bribing politicians to pass their laws, and then the nation turns into a crony capitalist system, where capitalism operates, but efficiency and honesty in the government and various large companies does not reign supreme. There needs to be a balance between what the lobbyists can do, what the politicians can accept in money (or other reelection bribes, like lists of emails, advertising, etc, idk), and how much ability the public has to get their message heard.

Luckily however, this issue would be reduced by the word count maximum in the 36th amendment. However, this could still bring law-makers to pass useless laws, filling up the word count, and then stuck for the next ten years, unable to pass useful laws. I could use ideas on how to solve this problem.

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As an experiment with willing participants:
Also, if ever governor of a Republican state, organize a vote within the state to decide if they would be willing to create a new state constitution, which can be written by the public, and generally have greatly reduced regulation and control over its citizens.

If ever the President of the United States of America, organize a vote within a Republican state and a Democratic State to decide if they would be willing to change their law structure (if Republican, new constitution, if Democratic, not needed).

For example, Republican state could get great restrictions to the growth and size of the state’s government.

And a Democratic state could have massive regulation implemented, like a 40 mph speed limit, a $25 minimum wage, a 60% tax on anyone making over $200,000 (30% for under that amount, and none for those making under $50,000), and billions of dollars of spending on infrastructure, housing projects, parks, “free” healthcare, “free” college, strict rent control, state programs for high-speed railways, a new Agricultural Adjustment Administration, a New Deal, thousands of strict anti-discriminatory laws, and hundreds of thousands of new government employees with a $60,000 starting salary and full retirement pension. And make sure to have easy access out of the state so people know that it failed.

If ever investing in an app, invest in an app which can tell the user how many of the tax dollars that they paid to the government (federal, state, or local) were just used in whatever transaction, program, or service they just used. Like dropping off a package at the US Postal Service, their phone could tell them “you spent $12 of your tax dollars to drop off a package” and maybe it could tell them “get a $12 tax credit for that amount, and shop at UPS for $6 on this link, or FedEx for $5 on this link. Savings: $7”

I would totally buy that app. And use it all the time. All the gov programs would go extinct, and they may actually begin to compete with private industry.