1. Abolish Styrofoam.
2. Prohibit the use of disposables in restaurants for eat-in orders.
Yes, this would add to restaurants’ costs, but the flip side of that is always creating jobs. Washing dishes is honorable work and lessening the amount of trash going to our landfills is a worthy ecological goal.
3. Stop minting pennies. Canada did this and seems to be surviving nicely. Cash purchases are rounded to the nearer nickel; online and electronic transactions are not rounded and do use cents.
4. Stop printing dollar bills; they last only 18 months, whereas coins last almost forever. If the current supply of dollar coins isn’t popular go to a larger, perhaps bi-metal, coin; and mint $2 coins also.
Save millions of dollars annually by doing this.
5. Death penalties should be by organ donation.
6. Losers in civil court cases shall be required to pay the legal costs of the winner, unless a judge shall find a compelling reason otherwise.
Cuts way, way down on frivolous lawsuits and time-wasting delays.
7. Let the minimum wage go to $15 immediately, adjusted from time to time but not less often than every three years, to take into account changes in the price levels.
Yes, prices would rise slightly in the fast-food and retail sectors especially. The price of a hamburger will go up ten or fifteen cents. So what? Every business will be in the same boat. And as wages go up, more people are drawn into the labor force, thus lessening the labor shortage we hear so much about.
8. In all unlawful discrimination cases, the burden of proof should be on the plaintiffs, as it is in other cases. Employers shouldn’t have to prove that they don’t discriminate.
Probably we should look at the “disparate impact” principle also.