The following is my opinion. It does NOT directly relate to agriculture, but of course everything relates to agriculture at some point. It is the result of a lot of study and thought, but it is, by no means a final product. Some aspects may be controversial or triggering for some. I have tried to keep the points short. Time permitting, I will fill in detail and references later. I hope it stimulates constructive feedback and discussion.

1. Ensure a free and legitimate Press
2. Eliminate Money in Politics
3. Provide a comprehensive social safety net
4. Tax the Rich
5. Election Reform
6. Restructure land inheritance to protect farmers, ranchers and conservationists
7. Ensure Competition and at least some domestic production capabilities
8. Free single-payer Healthcare for all
9. Free K-undergraduate college for all
10. Forbid Corporations from putting shareholder interests above National Interests
11. Require government entities to migrate to open-source software
12. Turn administration of National Parks and National Forests over to local First Nations tribes who once lived there
13. Elimination of "blood quantum" for tribal membership and replace with largely tribally-defined merit-based membership
14. Comprehensive Immigration Reform

• All outlets (all media, including TV, radio, social media platforms and newspapers) must allow equal time to non-violent opposing views or lose license to broadcast.
• Reverse Clinton’s Telecommunications Act so that local media cannot be owned by outsiders and no person or group can own or operate more than one local media platform.
• Bring back and strengthen Voice of America, Radio Liberty and other American news organizations that were recently eliminated.
• Nationalize, with independent, publicly-elected management funded directly by Congress, all social media platforms with viewership above a certain threshold (e.g. >1% of the population) and remove the profit motive for their existence.
• Require news to be provided at standard times or lose license to broadcast for any outlet purporting to provide news of any kind.

• Ban all political advertising. Candidates and their supporters can knock on doors, talk to people in person, including be interviewed by the press and would be strongly encouraged to answer questions on a central website available to the public, but otherwise all political advertisements and unsolicited phone calls would be prohibited. (See “Election Reform” section, part “f” for more details about the website).
• Ban all political fundraising. Obviously, with campaign information distributed by the described web-based resource in a predictable way, campaigns could be run without much expense to themselves or the public.
• Ban monetary or any gifts of value to candidates or government officials.

• Basic guaranteed income for every adult citizen in the USA, not tied to anything other than you are alive, an American citizen and primarily reside in the USA. Adults would receive extra income to support up to two children per couple to cover child care.
• Additional income for those who work for the government based on their function and effectiveness. (Of course private enterprises would also be expected to provide additional income or they likely couldn’t attract workers!) Raises for all public-facing government employees would be influenced by public input. Effective teams would receive raises together, instead of just their most-visible “leader”.
• Public services such as rail, buses, health care, basic electricity, water and sewage would be provided free-of-charge. Water and electricity use above the basic level would require payment. Sewage would be gradually transitioned to more modern, sanitary technologies by providing free sewage to those who adopted Jenkins-type toilets, while older less-sanitary methods would require payment.
• Employees would never have to stay in a job that they hated or feel forced to work for asshole bosses because they wouldn’t lose their home, health insurance, etc by seeking more interesting employment. Similarly, folks willing to do less-glamorous tasks, such as sewage maintenance or custodial work would likely command higher salaries as companies and government agencies sought their services.
• The flip side to that coin is that government agencies could fire unproductive employees with little hesitation because, though the fired employee might lose status and some pay, they would not lose any basic need. These employees would be free to find employment that is more-suitable to their skills.

• Eliminate ALL taxes EXCEPT one: a luxury tax. Luxury is defined as anything unecessary for a healthy life. Thus, private swimming pools, jewelry, etc. would be taxed, but also things that, in their basic form are necessities, but were acquired in an excessive form. For example, 25 m² (323 ft²) is adequate shelter, if well-built, for a single person. Anything over that would be taxed at progressively higher rates while anything this size or smaller would avoid all taxes. Similarly, personal vehicles would be taxed according to their external volume and pollution footprint. Thus, small electric vehicles (or larger electric vehicles that are truly needed for the person’s work, for instance) would not be taxed at all, while large and more-polluting vehicles would be taxed at progressively higher rates as their size and pollution capacity increased. Nutritious food would not be taxed at all, but highly-processed snacks would be taxed.  The end result would be the poor and lower middle class would pay no tax, the rich would pay a lot of tax and the rest of the middle class would pay a small amount of taxes. All folks would be incentivized to live modestly.  As the modern era has conclusively proven, wasteful consumerism doesn't lead to happiness.
• Educate the public on the true purpose of taxation and then tax accordingly. Taxes, if levied appropriately, serve two purposes: 1) reduce inflation & 2) ensure that a democratically-elected government, not oligarchs, have the power. In a monetary sovereign, like the United States federal government (not state and local), taxes are not necessary to pay for government programs! We all know the elements of this truth, yet we are taught to believe that taxes pay the government’s bills! We all know that the U.S. Treasury prints money (or makes it appear in accounts it wishes electronically). Such printing is authorized by Congress. Thus, the federal government could pay all its debts overnight without collecting a single tax dollar. They don’t do this because it would stimulate inflation. We all understand that the total amount of U.S. dollars in the world = [($$ in the hands of the government) + ($$ in the hands of everyone else)]. Yet, we are taught that the government should manage federal money like households manage their bank accounts! That would be disastrous, as it was just prior to Hoover’s Great Depression! The government’s debt is to our benefit because it means the money is circulating in the private economy. If this sounds like the Cliff Notes of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), you are correct. MMT simply describes how our monetary system was designed, it’s nothing new. What would be new is to actually make policy in line with our monetary system! For more information on MMT, I highly recommend reading, “The Deficit Myth” by economist Stephanie Kelton.
• Fully fund and expand the Internal Revenue Service to ensure that the rich don’t use their resources to weasel out of paying their fair share the way they routinely do now.
• Divide national budgets among the federal government and state and local governments. That apportioned to state and local governments would be in-total a fixed percentage of the federal budget and this portion would be divided based on their population with law requiring that the money be given, without delay to prevent intimidation of state and local governments through withholding funds. More research is required as to what percentage is appropriate and exceptions could be made in times of declared war so that the military budget money could be increased as necessary for national defense.

a) Automatic Voter Registration:  Every U.S. citizen would be automatically registered to vote upon reaching age 18 unless disqualified by felony conviction or diagnosis of debilitating mental impairment.
b) Mandatory Voting:  Australia has been doing this for over 100 years! Basically, every citizen must vote in each election or pay a nominal fine.
c) Eliminate Political Parties:  George Washington despised political parties. Each candidate should be allowed to craft their personal platform.  Political parties encourage tribalism and a lazy electorate.
d) Institute Ranked-Choice Voting:  For offices held by a single person (e.g. President, Governor, Mayor, etc.), this would take the form of Single-Winner Ranked-Choice voting and in cases where a multi-person body is being chosen, if would be Propportional Ranked-Choice voting.  Ranked-Choice Voting ensures your vote will not be "wasted" even if your top preference is someone who is not generally popular or well-known.
e) Reduce campaign season: Do we really learn much more about a candidate in the second year of their campaign? No. With well-organized elections, one can do your homework in a couple of months and then get back to your life.
f) Set up a public, national website for candidate information and make this resource available to local and state election boards for use in non-federal elections as well.  Folks would quickly get the idea for where to go for candidate information.  It allows elimination of money requirements in political campaigns (covered in the "Eliminate Money in Politics" section), thus allowing ANYONE to run for office regardless of their financial situation and could banish the clownish political theater that currently dominates political races.  The candidates would be presented with a standard set of questions tailored to each office.   50% of these questions would be suggested and sufficiently up-voted by the general public and the other 50% would be provided by a pool of professional journalists who cover the relevant area.  If the candidate wanted to provide more information, they could do so in an attachment.
g) Make Election Day a national holiday.
h) Make it illegal for any employer to prevent or punish worker from taking 2 hour leave on day of local/state elections in order to participate in these non-national elections.

• The farmer or rancher would write a document detailing, to some degree, their vision for the farm, listing assets of the land (water sources, fertility, rainfall of the area, conservation areas, etc.), sensible rotations for the short and long-terms and untapped potential.
• Their plan would be reviewed by a regenerative agriculture expert and the document finalized after some discussion between the farmer and regen ag expert. The farmer would have the final say and could, if he/she wished reject the suggestions from the expert.
• This final document would be uploaded to a government “dating” website/app.
• Those wishing to enter agriculture or expand their operation would indicate in the app, their interest in the farm.
• The farmer could then select those applicants who he/she thought were the best match to his/her vision and invite them to work with him on the farm for a time, if he wished.
• After reviewing the applicants either just through the app or additionally through working with the applicants, which applicant would “inherit” his/her farm.
• The farmer’s family would be compensated for their inheritance by either a cash payment or transfer of government property that matched what they wanted.
• If a farmer failed to participate in this system, their family could still participate after their passing by electing to put the land into the system with a minimal description open to any potential farmers.

1. Ensuring that we are never 100% reliant on foreign nations for products necessary to our national security (food, shelter, clothing, transportation, energy, military goods, communications, banking, pharmaceuticals, etc.).
2. Ensuring that we retain the expertise to produce said products.
3. Ensuring that these sectors remain competitive, by preventing monopolies which are inherently anti-Capitalism.
4. Creating stable, good-paying jobs doing meaningful work for thousands of Americans.
5. Ensuring that quality, affordable, albeit non-luxurious necessary products are available to every American.
6. Reducing prices overall in these markets because the remaining private companies would always have to compete against someone who has no profit motive.