The Big Ideas Project

Begin a true national recycling program AND ELIMINATE LAND FILLS OR OFFSHORE DUMPING. Prohibit state to state transportation of refuse (or Canada)--begin a "full-employment" recycling program within states utilizing unemployment block grant funding--sharing revenue from recycle operations with states for family assistance programs.

Submitted by Anthony B. from MI in Environment Dec. 19, 2014, 4:18 a.m.

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#1257

117 votes

Sentence criminal Wall St Bankers etc to Work Release Programs. Let those who are supposedly too-big-to-jail go to work during the day, and then lock them up at night -- just like we do with other criminals. Given them felony records and let them deal with that too. Also, take away their right (and their company’s right) to donate money to campaigns & issue advocacy groups for twenty years.

Submitted by Dan C. from MN in Economy & Jobs Dec. 19, 2014, 11:14 a.m.

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#1257

117 votes

NUCLEAR WASTE: Find permanent, safe* disposal sites for high- level nuclear waste housed in filled catch basins at nuclear plants throughout the country and in storage tanks in Tri-Cities, WA. A significant legacy for future generations. Inform/protect communities when transporting nuclear waste & other toxic chemicals through their communities. * safe is relative - there's no known safe long -term disposal of waste with half life and full life of thousands and tens of thousands of yrs.

Submitted by ElizabethT in Environment Dec. 11, 2014, 4:01 a.m.

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#1263

116 votes

Require pharmacy chains to post online public view prices for some if not all of their medicines, thereby spurring competition that will bring down prices. For hospitals require them to post online public view costs of many if not all of their supplies and surgical procedures, thereby spurring competition to bring down prices. Give states incentives to form regional state group purchasing alliances to enable mass purchasing of medicines that people in their states can buy, thus cutting costs.

Submitted by J. Mason Emerson in Health Dec. 30, 2014, 2:27 a.m.

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#1263

116 votes

Total Wall Street accountability (and prosecution). No contributions, gifts, recompense of any kind, except for salary and benefits, for all three branches. Without this, none of the other ideas presented here stand a chance.

Submitted by Just Sayin' in Government & Elections Dec. 11, 2014, 7:08 p.m.

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#1263

116 votes

Any corporation, bank, pr business entity convicted of a felony cannot contribute to ANY political campaign.

Submitted by CitizenX911 in Government & Elections Dec. 10, 2014, 8:56 p.m.

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#1263

116 votes

Require every candidate for elective office to swear an oath to tell the truth 24/7 during the campaign. All government officeholders swear an oath to tell the truth 24/7 for the term of office. False statements made while under oath is perjury. Statements clearly IDENTIFIED as opinion WHEN MADE would NOT violate the oath. Everyone can have their own opinions,but not their own facts.

Submitted by Citizen in Government & Elections Dec. 10, 2014, 6:20 p.m.

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#1263

116 votes

Pull all troops out of the Middle East, prevent future terrorist attacks simply by focusing on defending ourselves here at home, and consider sending foreign aid to moderate rebels who seek to fight ISIS. The terrorist threat began when the U.S. funded "rebels" such as Osama bin Laden in the 1980s, so it can only end when the good people in the Middle East have the funds they need to take back their region themselves.

Submitted by Anthony J. Piccione in Foreign Policy & Military Dec. 10, 2014, 11:17 a.m.

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#1263

116 votes

End the cycle of drug abuse that is hiding in plain sight. Require all prescriptions for opiates to be linked to your drivers license or social security number. No more doctor shopping that results in multiple prescriptions for the same drug, for the same patient, and record profits for the drug companies that look the other way. Addiction ruins families. One ID = only one prescription for a highly addictive pain-killer, in a national registry so no one can drive across state borders.

Submitted by mcmph5 in Health Dec. 10, 2014, 7:47 p.m.

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#1269

115 votes

Start a nation wide campaign to show how most politicians severally over complicate the whole healthcare/social security/medicare/medicaid issues's. The simple solution has always been to tax all income not just the poor and low middle class.Then we would have healthcare for all and also be able to completely eliminate the health insurance industry.

Submitted by DEADSET in Health Jan. 9, 2015, 10:36 a.m.

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#1269

115 votes

Start voter registration, now . After a couple of months call the registrar of voters.to see if it took hold and if not in help the voter get voting rights. If we start now they can't put roadblocks in the way.

Submitted by Ritch in Civil Rights Dec. 10, 2014, 3:02 p.m.

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#1269

115 votes

Make it legal for ANY community to build its own fiber optic network instead of being extorted by BIG TELCOMS.

Submitted by William S. from AL in Uncategorized Dec. 26, 2014, 7:10 p.m.

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#1269

115 votes

Corporate leadership should not be compensated anymore than 25 times the lowest paid person in the corporation regardless if the employee works here or abroad.

Submitted by bruce s. from IN in Economy & Jobs Dec. 19, 2014, 12:24 p.m.

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#1269

115 votes

Veterinary medical costs for a household pet should be tax deductible. A pet should be counted as a dependent on tax returns. Low income people should be eligible for subsidies that would make it financially feasible for them to own a pet.

Submitted by Mary Rocco in Health Dec. 10, 2014, 4:28 p.m.

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#1269

115 votes

Get money out of gov't. Lobbying is important, but should be a forum for making a plea, not a bribe. No exchange of anything except ideas and information.

Submitted by Just Sayin' in Government & Elections Dec. 11, 2014, 7:04 p.m.

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#1275

114 votes

Urban property that has been 1) condemned or 2) abandoned/unoccupied for more than three years must be auctioned to the public. Regulations must PREVENT 1) inside deals by realtors & developers, 2) developers & hedge funds from buying up everything at cheap prices & then controlling properties & manipulating markets to drive up prices, & 3) zoning boards from limiting divisions into smaller lots & blocking construction of smaller homes needed for affordable single family housing.

Submitted by Timothy Salt in Economy & Jobs Jan. 9, 2015, 11:21 a.m.

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#1275

114 votes

Use what even means, including drones to protect the remaining wild elephants, and completely stop ivory trade , persecute countries that allow ivory trade .

Submitted by James in Environment Dec. 22, 2014, 2:51 p.m.

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#1277

113 votes

A non-partisan Government. Im sick of this civil war that we are fighting and losing in our current broken form of government.

Submitted by Tomj65 in Government & Elections Dec. 9, 2014, 10:12 a.m.

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#1277

113 votes

Get rid of all tax breaks for outsourcing American Jobs,and tax breaks that reward firing Americans for any reason. Do the same for insourcing, no rewarding bringing in foreign workers that will take jobs from Americans and drive down wages for the rest. Then eliminate all Import Subsidies. Call it the Stop Rewarding Outsourcing Act.

Submitted by Don B. from CA in Economy & Jobs Dec. 20, 2014, 4:22 a.m.

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#1277

113 votes

Return to pre-1970 tax rates, adjusted for inflation, that would have tax rate of 90% on incomes over $5 million.

Submitted by Pietro Poggi in Taxes & Budget Dec. 10, 2014, 9:03 p.m.

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#1277

113 votes

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