Dave’s Political Policies
UK
- Citizen’s Income (see http://www.citizensincome.org/)
- paid to all UK citizens
- Tax free
- direct payment to bank accounts of each adult or identified guardian
- Payment types and levels
- Child Citizen’s Income (CCI) to replace child benefit, paid to parents/guardians for every child up to 16. Paid at three levels:
- CCI-5
- Under 5 years (50% of Adult Citizen’s Income?)
- CCI-11
- Under 11 years (60% of Adult Citizen’s Income?)
- CCI-16
- Under 16 years (80% of Adult Citizen’s Income?)
- Adult Citizen’s Income (ACI) to every citizen over 16 (equivalent to current minimum wage). This replaces/negates:
- Pensions
- Benefits (including Invalidity)
- Student Grants and Loans
- Maternity, paternity and statutory sick pay
- Tax allowances and tax credits
- Taxation
- Single standard income tax rate (perhaps 50%?) on all earnings and benefits in kind (no tax allowance) replacing all taxes except VAT:
- current income tax
- national insurance
- Council Tax
- Lower VAT rate, but on all goods and services
- All charities can claim back VAT paid and tax on donations
- Additional per item/measure taxes on goods to persuade people not to use them and/or to compensate for their negative health/environmental effects (e.g. petrol, alcohol, tobacco, etc). These taxes would reflect the cost to society of those goods. For example, some Green Policies:
- Vehicle emissions taxes
- scrap car tax
- Tax fuels according to their environmental impact
- Where appropriate, subsidise public transport
- introduce insurance disc, instead of car tax disc. still issued by DVLA, but only after Insurance Company has notified DVLA. Cost of the insurance disc is added into the insurance cost, and the insurance company passes income to DVLA.
- Grants and tax relief for home and business power generation and energy saving
- Organisations
- Integrated 999/101 control centres, managed as part of a more permanent form of COBRA
- Services taken away from local councils:
- Police (new national service)
- Fire (new national service)
- Social Services (see below)
- Road maintenance (given to Highway Agency)
- New "free at point of use" National Care Service incorporating:
- National Health Service
- Dentistry
- Residential care
- Social Services
- 500 Commons Parliamentary seats (Lower House). Constituencies 70% geographic and 30% demographic.
- Each voter has two votes, one in each "constituency", with the demographic seats being from party lists.
- House of Lords (upper house)
- Replace with 200 elected Upper House Representatives, each state in the union has a proportion of seats according to population at last census.
- Proportional representation, members drawn from party lists. Election is one year after a Commons (Lower House) election.
- Any bill rejected by the Lords must then pass with 75% of the Commons to be made law.
- Upper Representatives may only vote on bills affecting their state.
- Age of maturity
At the age of 16, citizens can:
- Vote
- Have sex
- Marry, with parental consent (without at 18)
- Join the armed forces (serve in combat zones at 18)
- Drive
- Drink alcohol (at 11 you can drink non-distilled alcoholic drinks at home under adult supervision, but not to intoxication)
- Smoke tobacco, but not in enclosed areas, or in the presence of anyone under 16.
Europa – a federal Europe
- Elections
- Voting age of 16
- Voting and parties across national boundaries, allowing parties to be either geographic, demographic or policy based
- Each voter has 5 votes, against each they enter the code of the party they would like to vote for. If they wish, they can vote 5 times for the same party
- Parties submit lists from which MEPs will be chosen, in the order which the party wants them chosen
- SMERF
Small Mobile European Reaction Force. Member states can withhold forces from any action other than a reaction to an invasion of another member state.
- Military force
- Humanitarian force
- Blue uniforms and white hats……
