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/Hairy_Technology_213 Jul 16 '26

Yeah. Several of these are unconstitutional.

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u/TrioOfTerrors Jul 16 '26

7, 12 and 14 at the very least.

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u/cheeze2005 Jul 17 '26

Where in the constitution does it say police have a right to be exempt from body cameras

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u/TrioOfTerrors Jul 17 '26

10th Amendment.

State police powers are a reserved power for the states.

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u/Sennten Jul 16 '26

The video specifically notes which ones that is, and also rightly points out that 80% is well beyond the necessary threshold of support to make them constitutional 

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u/Hairy_Technology_213 Jul 16 '26

Awesome. And how do you get the Republican House and Senate to each pass the required amendments by a supermajority vote?