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Originally Posted by GGG
1) We need a Facts council. The major political parties each nominate a person to a fact council. They adjudicate things like the 55% increase and force you to say
City council revenue from taxes before inflation and not considering population growth increased 55%. Taxes accounting for population growth and inflation increase 23%
They would approve all ads of any kind that addressed elections including PAC like entities. To get a seat on the fact council you would need to get say 10% of the national vote.
I'm not sure if this actually works but something needs to be done so we all are making decisions on the same base set of facts. Facts are not partisan.
2 - public funding of all elections. Yes this is going to cost us more however getting corporations out of democracy is a good thing. I liked the X dollars per vote model. Would need to evaluate how to fund municipal and fringe candidates. At a minimum only individuals should be able to donate and the cap should be $100 per year. No unions, no businesses, no money worth currying favour for.
3 - Each individual when discussing politics should frame all criticism at specific policies and not parties.
4 - Jounalists need to do their jobs and call out bull####. Anytime someone lies in an interview it should cut away stating what is actually true. In any article written with a quote in should be parsed with what is actually true.
Bill smith said " Nenshi raised taxes 55% (this is not factually true as after inflation and population growth taxes increased by 23% and the is one vote on council in our weak mayor system therefore the tax increases are the decision of all coucilours who voted for the budget)"
5 - Social media sites would include fact based information in all advertising.
6 - Jornalists and social media sites should create a politic act type entity on all major claims.
7- All platforms should be subject to economic review by government economists so standardized assumptions are used
8- Forcasts for commodity prices should never be greater than current strip pricing for all promises and budgets.
9- Idividuals need to stop sharing crappy team sports political articles and get over the Harper bad Trudeau good.
10- Idividuals need to quit using sarcasm as a form of humour and discourse in regards to politics
In other words quit ####ing lying to me and deal with the ####ing issues
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Facts Council: It was actually 51%.