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Bring back the sales tax on alcohol, so that people that can afford to piss away $40 dollar bottles of wine pay more in taxes than me, who splurges on $12 bottles on rare occasions. Since most people don't buy $40 bottles of wine, it easily passes, and is morally right.
Collecting the fine for fornication on the income tax form, so that people that have intercourse outside of marriage pay $30 towards the social costs while people that abstain from sex don't have to pay for those that do. Since most people aren't having as much sex as they imagine other people are, it easily passes and is morally right.
But I hate ballot questions, these should just be passed right now. The last two raise revenue from rich people that can afford it, and the first one loses revenue but the money stays in everyone's pocket to be spent in the economy, and the registry would save money by not having to collect money and keep track and deposit it and all that stuff.
"The state government will permit all official government business to be conducted online, and will establish means to verify and secure such transactions. All offline transactions will be digitized and made available online within 30 days. All historical information going back 10 years will be digitized and made available by 2016. All agencies will be required to post monthly summaries of their major activities and budgetary information online in a machine-readable format. All public access requests of digital information will be free, and all information will be licensed to allow for any non-commercial use without payment."
This would make a huge difference, and even the Dems granted this to the MBTA, but it was voted down for all others. It would certainly enable better government performance.
