Forum Post: 15 Ideas For a Menifesto

An Occupy Wall Street Manifesto (15 Ideas)

1.Eliminate tax loopholes. 2.Require all shareholders & owners, including subsidiaries, vote on lobbying effort before allowing to implement. 3.For each lobbying effort, require easily-accessible publication of lobbying goals, owners, targeted Congressman. 4.Reinstate “The Truth in Reporting” Act. 5.Require the facts / innuendos be vetted by an independent group before allowing political /issue ads to be broadcast. 6.Run “Credits” for every political add stating top 10 donors by name. 7.Require all ads / articles refer the viewer / reader to nationally recognized independent fact check sites like Politico and one for PAC ownership. 8.Implement a national mechanism for direct voting, similar to the one for bringing local issues / propositions to a vote. 9.Allow one week for the public to have access and read any bill before the final vote is to occur. 10.Require that a Congressman or committee “own” every word change from the bill's inception. 11.Require a expeditious vote on all appointees with the third appointee being automatically accepted. 12.Allow clawbacks and legal action against corporate boards and officials of companies. 13.Disallow any off-book accounting of any type. 14.Create a system of random professional juries to reduce the time of trial. 15.Tax all practicing law firms with the funds to be used in defending those without representation.