Keep the Senate, but give them seats according to the number of citizens.

See that sales tax applies to financial products, too. Mitigate the impact by giving everyone a fixed discount on that. Make basic food, hygiene products, and books/newspapers exempt.

Abolish senate and scotus? Wtf is this?

It would require a Constitutional Convention, large amendment, or several amendments. So really hard. Furthermore getting rid of SCOTUS and the income tax aren’t good ideas. We need a court of last resort and a VAT is incredibly regressive compared to an income tax.

Here’s my modified list:

• RCV, Approval Voting, or STAR voting
• Abolish electoral college, and abolish state legislative districts or at least implement a simple district-drawing algorithm
• Keep the senate and house I guess
• Give the supreme court term limits without reelection. You serve for like 10 years or whatever and then you go back to being a normal circuit judge or whatever else you want to do. Give them a bunch of bonus money at the end so they’re less likely to take bribes. Institute strict ethics regulations. These can be arbitrated by a committee of circuit courts. Maybe expand SCOTUS to 13 seats (1 per circuit)
• idk anything about the house rep cap
• Universal healthcare
• UBI, universal unemployment, or shorten the workweek. As we increase automation, we require less labor for a decent standard of living
• Crank up income tax and close tax loopholes. Double IQS funding, they make more money by catching millionaires+ than they spend on doing so

VAT is theft

No, it doesn’t. First, changing constitution would be impossible. Two, even if you did all this it would just make right wing states get even more extreme (there’s nothing in the plan that would let central government protect human and constitutional rights in red states).

Unfortunately US political system wasn’t designed in a way that let’s it change with time. To introduce big reforms like this it would pretty much have to collapse and be rebuild from scratch. Realistic way to make things better is simply organizing locally to inform/educate people about progressive/socialist policies, electing moderate/progressive politicians to take over Democratic party and simply creating a political force that can actually oppose Republicans instead of trying to comprise all the time.

No so long ago it was generally accepted that Republicans will always be a minority party. They managed to take over the government though smart PR, well organized (dis)information campaigns and long term, bottom-up work to take over institutions. Now Democrats have to do the same.

*Undo citizens united

Only if you want to maintain the capitalist status quo by making sure the population is just comfortable enough not to turn on those few who actually benefit from it, while the rest of us scramble for these kinds of bare minimum, not even all-our-human-rights-being-met scraps, some even thanking our overlords for their generosity as they piss trickle down all over us.

Yes yes no no yes yes yes no

Leave income tax (VAT is useful but ultimately a regressive tax in that it relies on consumption and therefore disproportionately affects the poor).

Leave the Supreme Court but add term limits-I like 13 years because it keeps the chances that any one person will be able to transform the court very small.

Add in universal pre-k and post-secondary education. Pre-k in particular benefits society at large because it teaches children how to interact with peers in an equitable fashion.

• Star Voting
• Voting is a national federal holiday
• Universal mail in voting
• UBI
• Medicare for all And things start getting better from there.

For government overhaul would add abolishing the presidency and per district voting (just divide seats in the house based on percentage of the vote overall, I.e. one big district).

For the rest of society: abolish private ownership of companies, but award stocks to the employees instead. This will align incentives of the company with the people most impacted by its decisions.

Income tax can stay as long as its very progressive.

The last two points reminds me of the Fair Tax proposal that was popular among Libertarian circles for a bit.

(I should note that the Fair Tax was the name and not necessarily an accurate description)

It really isn’t possible to abolish the Supreme Court without undoing the constitution entirely. You do that, and you aren’t fixing things, you’re starting over. And yeah, in theory you could amend the constitution to do it, but trying to make that happen is the same as undoing it in reality.

I’m not saying that’s an invalid choice (viva la revolution!), I’m just saying that it is a different concept entirely.

But yeah, if you just changed the first one on that list (which could be done without drastic measures), it would fix 90% of the rest.

Where do you get the money for UBI if income tax is abolished?