The need for political solutions for the public is self-evident. The country is being divided and without correction the trend will result in more and more inequality and conflict.
Whatever your traditional political cause or grievance might be, we must now recognize democracy itself is at risk of being discarded, making any future public initiatives impossible to achieve, unless we act now.
We must first fix our democracy by upgrading the democratic process to provide better access and yield better results.
We need to promote a system that provides better access and yields better results. We can reverse the policies of inequality and division by updating our democracy to achieve a more representative government, that will encourage more public participation, followed by a better democracy.
Currently, the political parties stand between voters and representative government like health insurance companies stand between patients and their doctors. They are middlemen profiting from limiting our access to the services we seek, democracy and health.
Unfortunately, these middlmen are mandated by law. Our only hope for democratic reform effective enough to matter is to promote a new apportionment act. The question of support should be mandatory for all candidates, like climate change and healthcare. It’s that important.
Tax Bracket Apportionment is a nonpartisan political solution that can be used as a litmus test for candidates to pledge allegiance to American democracy and to protect and defend representative government.
With the understanding that money is representation, congressional representation should be apportioned to states by their public’s income, not just their geography. This can be achieved using tax-bracket apportionment, where voters can elect representatives from the same income tax brackets as themselves.
Achieving a more representative government will require a transition from a conflict-based economy to a health-based economy and the electoral system must transcend private money and be transparent and verifiable.
That transition will require education and legislation in incremental steps, towards creating a more representative government. For instance, tax-bracket apportionment would merely be a stepping stone towards an economic system without an income tax.
The only way to accommodate the growing population’s need for political solutions is to upgrade the democratic system. It’s not bigger government. It’s better government.
Political solutions beneficial to the public can only be achieved democratically. More democracy is the only remedy for our democratic decay. So the solution we seek is better democracy. It is the ends and the means to a representative government that can begin to legislate political solutions for the public.