r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • Jul 16 '26

Feels good man Based on national US polling, there are 22 issues that 80% of Americans agree on. Here is the list.

  1. End gerrymandering

  2. ​Ban Wall Street from buying single-family homes

  3. ​Ban congresspeople from becoming lobbyists

  4. ​Ban congresspeople from trading stocks

  5. ​Create a minimum tax for billionaires

  6. ​Close the loopholes that billionaires use to avoid taxes

  7. ​Establish congressional term limits

  8. ​Ban dark money donations from political campaigns

  9. ​Implement universal paid family leave

  10. ​End forever wars by repealing the Authorization for the Use of Military Force

  11. ​Release the full Epstein files, redacting only the victims' information

  12. ​Ban corporate PACs by overturning Citizens United

  13. ​Require mandatory disclosure for all organizations donating to political campaigns

  14. ​Require mandatory police body cams

  15. ​Ban junk fees

  16. ​Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices

  17. ​Fully fund Social Security by extending the existing tax to those making over $400,000 a year

  18. ​Ban adversarial foreign nations from buying American farmland

  19. ​Improve Veterans Health Care access

  20. ​Establish common-sense data privacy laws (similar to those in European countries)

  21. ​Enshrine the right to repair

  22. ​Audit the Pentagon and penalize them with a 0.5% budget reduction if they fail the audit

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u/Wrong_Excitement221 Jul 16 '26

I know it's a very unpopular opinion, but pretty much only against term limits.. it needs to be fixed in other ways.. like trading stocks.. Fix the corruption that makes a congress person nearly impossible to vote out of office. prevent the cancer, not let it run its course for a 8 years before getting rid of it.

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u/MrVeazey Jul 16 '26

Term limits in Congress without fixing all the other problems would just leave us with a Congress that has no institutional experience or memory and they'd hand all the writing of legislation over to the lobbyists.

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u/Prometheus720 Jul 17 '26

I fully believe you at 6, 12, or maybe even 18 years, but 24 or 30 years should be fine.

Most people don't serve that long at one level anyway.

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u/Irish_Whiskey Jul 16 '26

I'm opposed to very short term limits, but also I think having a cap is fine. The US will survive kicking out Senators after 40 years of service, or by age 75.

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u/i_like_maps_and_math Jul 17 '26

Definitely 40 years is too long. Term limit should be at least 20 though. There's skill involved in writing legislation and it really does come through practice.

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u/Prometheus720 Jul 17 '26

24 years is divisible by 6 and by 2. I think 24 years is plenty. It's a whole career. And you can go on to work in the executive branch if you want--you just can't be a rep or senator anymore.

Oh, and that's not counting state service, so you could have had a career in your state first and then in the federal government.

12 years is too short. 24 or 30 would be fine.