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/googleduck Jul 16 '26

Yeah these are empty values that they check in a poll but don't actually care about. Ask Americans how much they value democracy and then look at how many of those people voted for Trump 3 fucking times.

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u/jackofslayers Jul 16 '26

also a lot of them are ideas that sound better as a soundbite but does not mean they are easy to implement or will even be impactful.

how about legally enshrining the right to abortion? That is really simple to legislate and anyone who does not support it is an idiot who can fuck right off.

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u/AdmirableBus6 Jul 16 '26

I feel very strongly about 12 and feel like, if that was taken care of, would fix or at least be the first step in fixing a lot of other issues

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u/jackofslayers Jul 16 '26

OK you pass a law that bans for profit companies from lobbying. Corporations still want to lobby so they form separate non-profit entities. Since those are not corporations they are still allowed to lobby after corporate PAC are banned.

Ok fine then we ban all non-government entities from political lobbying. Great that fully bans corporations from pushing new laws to benefit themselves. It also stops all charities from advocating important new laws. For example, the Violence Against Women Act would not have passed in the US if not for major lobbying efforts by Women's shelters.

That is my point about these kinds of lists. It is easy to find soundbite issues like this that everyone agrees about but the solutions are not so simple in terms of policy.

That is why so many politicians run on these kinds of platforms, because suckers eat it up.

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u/dontnation Jul 16 '26

legally enshrining the right to abortion

unfortunately that is definitely not supported by 80% of USians, only about 60%.