The Big Ideas Project

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End the governments subsidy of US/multinational corporations offshoring American jobs, imposing a tariff on goods to make reimportation of goods made by 3rd world, slave-wage labor prohibitively expensive, compared to using domestic labor. The net efffect will dramatically slash unemployment, leading companies to raise wages in competition for the most talented employees & result in increased revenues collected by the govt from income taxes; which in turn ends deficit spending.

Submitted by Craig C. from RI in Economy & Jobs Dec. 10, 2014, 3:17 p.m.

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#224

1099 votes

Expand the right of workers to join unions and collectively bargain. Make it a felony for any company executive and hired person to in any way prevent or restrict the right of the workers to organize. That would make it a felony to terminate a person for such legal organizing activities. Second offence must lead to a mandatory jail sentence.

Submitted by Lone Maquis in Economy & Jobs Dec. 10, 2014, 7:52 p.m. 1

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#228

1068 votes

Late fees and overdrafts should be a percentage of the total balance, with the maximum being $25 or $35. No one should have to pay $45 for being overdrafted $6. Or $35 late fees on a $10 balance. Also, payments should be able to be made up to midnight of the due date, not 5 days before or before 1 pm three days prior.

Submitted by stonerbunny in Economy & Jobs Jan. 8, 2015, midnight

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#232

1062 votes

Take away all Wall Street investment firms and bank's licences to operate in the USA and commence with a re assessment of granting permits subject to new legislation ensuring separation of investment & retail activities, denying corporate protection against a range of unethical and illegal activities relating to political interference and contributions, tax allowances etc.

Submitted by Proud Socilaist in Economy & Jobs Jan. 4, 2015, 4:03 p.m.

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#263

881 votes

Prohibit prospective employers from discriminating against applicants based on credit scores rather than skills, education and experience. Many good employees have poor credit scores through circumstances beyond their control.

Submitted by Carol O in Economy & Jobs Jan. 4, 2015, 5:39 p.m.

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#272

847 votes

Mandatory paid vacations, sick leave, and holidays. With states crippling the power of unions, it falls to the government to protect the working class.

Submitted by Terence in Economy & Jobs Dec. 10, 2014, 4:04 p.m.

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#297

765 votes

Merged Idea

Not new, but just saying = Infrastructure bank, Restore old New Deal policies and programs, such as CCC, WPA, NRPB. In fact adopt ALL of goals set forth in FDR's 1944 State of the Union (Economic Bill of Rights) address and add new goals re female empowerment, environmental preservation and re-enhancement (unaddressed by original address as non-issues at the time.)

Submitted by James Friedlander in Economy & Jobs Nov. 9, 2014, 9:28 a.m.

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#309

730 votes

Get the NLRB back labor friendly and start supporting collective bargaining again /unions. For too long the NLRB has been management friendly stunting economic improvement for middle class jobs. Also, get shed of these one-sided trade agreements that encourage moving good paying American jobs overseas.

Submitted by David M. from OK in Economy & Jobs Nov. 16, 2014, 6:06 p.m.

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#321

706 votes

I read an article that the employees of WalMart use 60 Billion in social services per year just to survive. And WalMart isn't alone in this repulsive act against society and taxpayers. I think its time to pass laws that when there is such an abundance of a company's employees using social services that the company have to refund the states and federal government for the services rendered. With a hefty fine attached to each million just to make a point.

Submitted by EIEL in Economy & Jobs Jan. 10, 2015, 4:03 p.m. 1

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#338

673 votes

Foster competition by reducing the length of copyright and patent monopolies. The original purpose of copyright and patent laws was to prevent the government from granting long-running monopolies to numerous private businesses. This purpose has been subverted, resulting in both higher prices and less competition and innovation. To fix this, reduce the time period of these awards (and items that are subject to them) to what they were during the time period that our country's founders were alive.

Submitted by Steve Silberstein, Executive Producer of Inequality for All in Economy & Jobs Dec. 10, 2014, 1:27 a.m.

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#343

664 votes

Eliminate foreign ownership of our farmlands. China now grows food in the United States and ships it back to China. WE should be using our farm products FIRST for us, then for others. Take back OUR FARMLAND. Reclaim that from foreigners and that our own builders, particularly in the midwest, have built over.

Submitted by the answertothegap in Economy & Jobs Dec. 29, 2014, 11:33 a.m.

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#344

655 votes

Mandate any "job creator" benefit requires actual job creation. To enjoy these benefits, number of employees needs to have increased at least 1% year over year, the last two years running. This would be accomplished by proof of legal employees through reporting of social security numbers/work-visa numbers/green card numbers. This would cut down on corporate tax loop hole abuse, actually cause job creation, and increase public coffers by increasing amount paid in taxes w/new jobs.

Submitted by Brian Gorski in Economy & Jobs Jan. 8, 2015, 6:42 a.m.

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#344

655 votes

Do not allow the further erosion of pension rights in the USA. Insist that all pensions be fully-funded. No more pension-smoothing, no more deficits for the PBGC. Pensions are deferred wages.

Submitted by pvs58 in Economy & Jobs Dec. 10, 2014, 1:09 p.m.

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#351

641 votes

Merged Idea

Push the minimum wage to a level that will allow worker to be able to survive comfortably. Probably somewhere in the $15 to $20 range.

Submitted by John W. from ME in Economy & Jobs Nov. 17, 2014, 2:02 a.m.

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#356

636 votes

Repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley act to level the playing field for workers by making it easier for them to organize in every state.

Submitted by Christopher R. from WI in Economy & Jobs Nov. 18, 2014, 12:24 a.m.

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#363

617 votes

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Withdraw from all the free exploitation treaties, starting with the WTO, which have given more power to international business and less power to democratic states.

Submitted by Richard in Economy & Jobs Dec. 15, 2014, 2:14 a.m.

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#367

612 votes

Take antitrust enforcement actions by working against major mergers and acquisitions and breaking up huge corporations. No corporation should have a greater than a 10% national market share nor a 20% local market share.

Submitted by Richard G. from MD in Economy & Jobs Nov. 18, 2014, 10:31 a.m.

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#368

610 votes

Withold all management salary payments and investor dividend payments until pension plans are fully funded each year.

Submitted by Sstan in Economy & Jobs Jan. 8, 2015, 4:29 p.m.

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#389

576 votes

STOP the lies about skilled worker shortages and the abuse involved in using H1-B visas to replace American educated, skilled jobs with lowest cost jobs. And STOP the horrid TPP and similar "trade" deals that eliminate jobs, environmental/consumer etc protections and end US sovereignty.

Submitted by Dorothy Brown in Economy & Jobs Nov. 11, 2014, 5:13 p.m.

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#397

571 votes

Create corporate incentives to encourage them to raise the wages of all their workers. Provide a one-time corporate tax credit for corporations that permanently raise the wages of workers currently making less than $90,000 a year by at least ten percent.

Submitted by Steve Silberstein, Executive Producer of Inequality for All in Economy & Jobs Dec. 10, 2014, 1:25 a.m.

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#405

548 votes

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