10 ways to change America (for the better)

[mellowtigger]

Brainstorm time. Suppose you were made supreme poobah and could change any law, any government body, without any interference. What would you do to improve America? If you want to join the brainstorm, I suggest no more than 10 entries, keep each entry short, and include a single-word (sound-bite) title for each entry.

I'm including a useless paragraph here, because LiveJournal did a lousy job or formatting my paragraphs around my photo.

1. Elections. All elections throughout the country (national, state, city) will follow rules for instant-runoff.
2. Elections. If electronic voting is used, it will be done on machinery and software that can be publicly reviewed, with data trails that can be publicly verified at any time.
3. Energy. Build a fusion research site, even better than ITER.
4. Energy. Build at least one free factory for Tata to begin manufacturing air-powered cars in America, with one decade free from all taxes.
5. Energy.  Employers must pay (separate from salary) a transportation wage to each employee, based on the distance from their home to their workplace.  This wage is waived for employees who telecommute at least 90% of their time.
6. Space.  Build a base on Mars to house 100 scientists within 10 years.
7. Knowledge.  Establish a maximum 10-year copyright on any material (software, music, movie, book, chemical, medicine.... anything).
8. Medicine.  If a corporation discovers a medicine or procedure of great public benefit, then seize the intellectual property for the public domain, even before the 10-year limit mentioned above.  Pay appropriate remuneration to the discoverer.
9. Accountability.  No government figure may earn more than 4x the national minimum wage.  No private figure may earn more than 10x the national minimum wage.  Any value (money, services, items) received in excess of this amount will be confiscated via taxes.
10. Accountability.  Citizens are permitted access to any method or product that the government uses on its own citizens.  (eavesdropping, wiretapping, data collection, owning weapons)

There's more, I'm sure, but 10 is my limit for today.