volpe/posts/drafts/political-things-we-should-do-yesterday.md

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  • If I had a political platform
    • MNHealth copying MassHealth
    • USPS Package, Postal, Packet
    • Patients should own their health data not companies, we should have a national maintained healthcare database fully encrypted only accessible by patients and their docs
    • Bring back postal banking
    • More FOSS in government
    • Right of first refusal + rent control
    • UBI is dumb just provide the services directly
    • Co-op grants
    • Co-op housing without kitchen and food spaces
    • Infill city streets, with bike and pedestrian access to houses, and restrict traffic entry and exit points in neighborhoods
    • Subsidize value should be listed with pricing
    • The government should not have a concept of name, gender, or biometrics
    • Public safety issues should be looked at and structural changes should be made to how we design systems and governance every time and documented with the "why"
    • You should be able to get a motorcycle license without a car license
    • We shouldn't have speed limits, we score vehicles based on how they can strike a pedestrian or biker, and then limit the newtons that a vehicle can have based on the reaction time another person would have to react to their speed
    • National payment service like europe
    • digital right like the GDPR and ban DRM
    • government provided 0 interest rate loans for emergency expenses