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Only way a 3 (or more) party system works in the US is if we change the way we vote to a ranked-choice type of system with runoff elections. With first past the post, winner take all elections, multiple parties just makes it possible for politicians to win with smaller and smaller pluralities.

I agree with you that billionaires reflect an obscene system. What is a fair, and loophole-free way to avoid them?

Asset taxes? Do you just tax every dollar over $1B at 100%? What if they own shares in a company that grows beyond $1B? Do they have to sell the shares? What if they then lose control of the company as a result? Maybe that is good. IDK.

Also, is it $1B per person. Could the person get married to let them grow to $2B?

If the rest of the world doesn’t follow suit, then what happens? Do all the billionaires just buy citizenship in Estonia or something?

Again, I am not opposed to the idea. I just think it needs a lot of work. Otherwise, these rants seem like a distraction. If it is never going to happen, maybe we are better off focused on trying to achieve UBI than Universal Asset Equality or whatever.

> 3 party political system.

Wonder if having 3 senators per state would help this along.

To fix the Senate, you need to make it more proportional to the number of people in the states. The other option would be to get rid of the Senate all together, as it’s undemocratic to begin with.

North Dakota should not get the same power as all of CA. ND is the same population as San Francisco, it’s hard to imagine the original writers of the constitution would have thought that a 50x imbalance of representation would be a good thing.

I thought that was the whole point - if you make California all powerful in the house and Senate, smaller states get trampled on. It's no longer a union of states at that point, might as well rename the country California.

Let’s not stop there. Set the number of senators in proportion to the state’s population, in order to be a more representative democracy.

If only the folks who said eat the rich did just that.

Well that task is left to working class. We here are thought leaders.

I'm too busy working to be able to eat.

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