The Human Rights Bill

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Welcome to the long-term vision behind our policy platform. This page outlines a proposed Human Rights Bill—a constitutional and legislative framework designed to ensure that every American can thrive. It’s important to note that these are long-term goals and structural reforms, not immediate policy changes. Here, you’ll find the guiding principles and constitutional amendments that will help us upgrade the American Dream from wishful thinking to guaranteed rights and everyday results.

For those wondering if this is a radical overhaul: think of this as a long-term blueprint rather than a short-term mandate. The Human Rights Bill is about setting a vision for a fairer and more resilient America—one where fundamental rights to economic security, health, and opportunity are enshrined for future generations. It’s a roadmap for how we pay for and achieve lasting change, not a one-size-fits-all decree.

We don’t sell hope—we deliver it. The dream isn’t dead; it’s upgraded from wishful thinking to guaranteed rights and everyday results.

I. The Human Rights Bill (Constitutional Amendments)

Amendments are brief by design; enabling laws below do the heavy lifting.

Right to a Thriving Life

Guarantees baseline economic security, access to food, shelter, clean water, energy, and essential healthcare. Authorizes Congress to fund a Thriving Income floor and a Civil Works guarantee when private jobs fall short.

Right to Purpose & Fair Work

Protects the right to meaningful work, training, and fair scheduling. Requires living/“thriving” wage standards tied to local costs.

Right to Health & Healing

Universal access to essential healthcare and mental health; bans medical bankruptcy.

Right to Housing & Home

Freedom from involuntary homelessness; requires Housing-First and anti-predatory land/use practices.

Right to Clean Nature

Clean air, water, soil; rapid PFAS and toxics cleanup; polluter-pays enshrined.

Right to Energy & the Sun

Universal access to affordable electricity; protects the right to generate/store/share solar and other renewables.

Right to Learn for Life

Free K-14 (or K-16 phased), debt-free public options, paid upskilling.

Digital & AI Bill of Rights

Data ownership, privacy by default, algorithmic transparency, opt-out/appeal of automated decisions, AI dividend for public data use.

Democracy & Anti-Corruption

National voting standards, ranked-choice + open primaries, independent redistricting, dark-money transparency, strong conflict-of-interest rules.

Children & Family Security

Nutrition, childcare, safe communities, and parental leave as rights.

Economic & Work

Universal Thriving Income Act: monthly floor indexed to local costs; phases in via tax credit + direct payments.

Thriving Wage & Civil Works Equity Plan: federal job guarantee for climate resilience, care, and local infrastructure; prevailing “thriving” wage.

Right to Purpose Act: paid reskilling, career navigation, guaranteed placements in public-interest projects.

Technology & Common Wealth

AI Dividend Trust Program: fund dividends from AI-driven productivity gains and public data/value capture.

Human Creativity Initiative: micro-grants, studios, and marketplaces for arts/maker entrepreneurship.

Fair Tax & Corporate Accountability

Corporate Fair-Share Surtax: CEO-to-median pay ratio triggers surtax; <50:1 earns a modest credit; >50:1 - 5%, >100:1 - 10%, and 5% more per additional 100 overage (for example, 15% at 200:1, 20% at 300:1, and so forth).

Loophole Closure Act: end offshore profit shifting (GILTI floor), stock-buyback excise hike, carried-interest elimination, and a minimum effective corporate tax.

Families & Starts in Life

Billionaires for Babies & Beyond Act: child benefit, prenatal and early years care, and school meals funded from luxury/wealth surtaxes and buyback excise.

Energy & Utilities

Public Power & Choice Act: unlocks municipal/co-op takeover options of failing or price-gouging utilities, establishes a national public distributor of last resort, and protects rooftop and community solar interconnection and fair net metering.

Data-Center Fair Share Rule: large users pay cost-reflective rates and fund grid upgrades—no cross-subsidy from households.

Health & Environment

Essential Care for All Act: 

Universal baseline care; cap out-of-pocket costs; negotiate drug prices; end medical debt collections on essentials.

PFAS & Forever Chemicals Cleanup Act:

Superfund designation, strict discharge limits, and rapid substitution with safer chemistries.

Democracy

Free & Fair Elections Act: 

Automatic/portable registration, vote-by-mail baseline, 15-day early voting, ranked-choice/open primaries, independent maps.

Sunlight & Integrity Act: 

Ban members trading individual stocks; real-time disclosure; dark-money donor transparency.

Local Food & Water Security Act: 

Drought-smart water works, regenerative agriculture grants, right-to-garden and seed-sharing protections.

Rural Prosperity & Main Street Zones: 

Zero-interest revolving funds for co-ops, tiny-home infill, and local manufacturing.

Right-to-Repair & Open Standards: 

Extend device lifespans, cut costs, build local jobs.

Community Safety by Design: 

Housing, lighting, youth spaces, and mental-health response embedded in public works—evidence-based crime reduction without over-criminalization.

How We Pay for it and Why It’s Stable:

Close top-end loopholes; surtax extreme pay ratios; minimum effective corporate tax; buyback excise; luxury wealth surtaxes.

Capture public share of AI/productivity windfalls (AI Dividend Trust).

Cut wasteful corporate subsidies; require large energy users to fund their grid costs.

Shift from emergency spending to planned, job-creating civil works that lower long-run costs (health, crime, disasters).

Rollout That Shows Results Fast:

Day 1–100: Cancel medical debt interest/collections on essentials; launch child benefit; freeze utility shutoffs; announce job-guarantee pilot counties (starting with GA-14); PFAS enforcement surge.

Year 1: First Thriving Income checks; public works hiring; rapid solar + weatherization for low-income households; insulin/essential drug caps.

Year 2–3: Ranked-choice/open primaries enacted; muni/co-op utility expansions; AI Dividend payments begin.

Year 4–6: Constitutional amendments move to states with broad left-right coalition.