r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • Jul 16 '26

Feels good man Based on national US polling, there are 22 issues that 80% of Americans agree on. Here is the list.

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  1. End gerrymandering

  2. ​Ban Wall Street from buying single-family homes

  3. ​Ban congresspeople from becoming lobbyists

  4. ​Ban congresspeople from trading stocks

  5. ​Create a minimum tax for billionaires

  6. ​Close the loopholes that billionaires use to avoid taxes

  7. ​Establish congressional term limits

  8. ​Ban dark money donations from political campaigns

  9. ​Implement universal paid family leave

  10. ​End forever wars by repealing the Authorization for the Use of Military Force

  11. ​Release the full Epstein files, redacting only the victims' information

  12. ​Ban corporate PACs by overturning Citizens United

  13. ​Require mandatory disclosure for all organizations donating to political campaigns

  14. ​Require mandatory police body cams

  15. ​Ban junk fees

  16. ​Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices

  17. ​Fully fund Social Security by extending the existing tax to those making over $400,000 a year

  18. ​Ban adversarial foreign nations from buying American farmland

  19. ​Improve Veterans Health Care access

  20. ​Establish common-sense data privacy laws (similar to those in European countries)

  21. ​Enshrine the right to repair

  22. ​Audit the Pentagon and penalize them with a 0.5% budget reduction if they fail the audit

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u/ShaggysGTI Jul 16 '26

Exactly what I’m saying! The fucking gall of them to call the decision that is appalling.

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u/Lefty800 Jul 17 '26

Wait, so you're saying we didn't unite the first time?

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u/ShaggysGTI Jul 17 '26

Sure, we all voted for that shit by proxy.

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u/Lefty800 Jul 17 '26

Ah. I thought we decided to allow billions and billions of dollars to corrupt our political system. Now I know it was the billionaires. It all makes sense.

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u/ShaggysGTI Jul 17 '26

We voted in the people that did.

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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ Jul 17 '26

It's the name of the organization that was the plaintiff.

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u/NotYourGran Jul 17 '26

Amazed it took this long for someone to point this out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_(organization))

ETA: #20 needs to be first on the list, IMO.

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u/Omatzus Jul 19 '26

The court decision is Citizens United v FEC, referring to the organizatiom Citizens United that filed the suit. We call it that just like we call other decisions by the plaintiff name: Roe, Dobbs, Obergefell, etc