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ALEC is a corporate extremist organization that crafts model legislation.
Its private-sector representatives exert huge pressure on state legislators to pass pre-written bills on a wide range of policy issues.
About ALEC Templates:
Purpose:
ALEC creates model bills to advance (so-called) free-market, limited-government policies.
These templates are designed to be introduced in state legislatures with minimal changes.
Common Policy Areas:
Tax & Fiscal Policy (e.g., tax cuts, restrictions on public spending)
Education (e.g., school vouchers, anti-CRT bills)
Environment & Energy (e.g., pro-fossil fuel, anti-renewable energy measures)
Labor & Employment (e.g., right-to-work laws, anti-union measures)
Criminal Justice (e.g., "stand your ground" laws, mandatory minimums)
Healthcare (e.g., opposition to Medicaid expansion)
Revising ALEC: One Template at a Time
Tax & Fiscal Policy, Model Legislation: Taxpayer Protection Act
Section 1. Title
This Act shall be known and cited as the “Taxpayer Protection Act.”
Section 2. Definitions
(a) “Tax increase” means any legislative action that results in an increase in aggregate state revenue, including but not limited to:
(i) Raising tax rates,
(ii) Eliminating tax exemptions or deductions,
(iii) Expanding the tax base.
Section 3. Supermajority Requirement for Tax Increases
(a) No bill that results in a net tax increase shall become law unless approved by a two-thirds majority vote in both chambers of the legislature.
(b) This requirement shall apply to all taxes, including income, sales, and corporate taxes.
Section 4. Voter Approval for Major Tax Increases
(a) Any tax increase exceeding [X]% of prior-year revenues must be referred to voters for approval at the next general election.
Section 5. Revenue Limitation
(a) Annual growth in state expenditures shall not exceed the combined rate of inflation plus population growth, unless approved by a supermajority vote.
Section 6. Emergency Exemption
(a) The supermajority requirement may be waived only in the case of a declared fiscal emergency, passed by a two-thirds vote.
Section 7. Severability
If any provision of this Act is held invalid, the remainder shall remain in effect.
Section 8. Effective Date
This Act shall take effect immediately upon passage.
Revised ALEC Template
New Model Legislation: Economic Justice & Public Equity Act
Section 1. Title
This Act shall be known as the “Economic Justice and Public Equity Act.”
Section 2. Definitions
(a) “Working-class household” = any household earning below [X]% of state median income.
(b) “Digital public infrastructure” = servers, data centers, broadband networks, and algorithmic systems necessary for modern life.
(c) “Reparations fund” = earmarked resources for redress of slavery, Indigenous dispossession, segregation, exploitative immigration policies, and systemic discrimination like the pink-collar economy of unpaid labor (which still makes all paid labor possible).
Part I: Radical Wealth Redistribution
Section 3. 100% Millionaire Surtax
(a) All income above $1,000,000 per year is taxed at 100%, effective immediately.
(i) Exceptions: Co-ops, worker-owned firms, and nonprofits reinvesting surplus into wages.
(b) Establishes a maximum income limit of $1,000,000 for all employees, executives, and contractors of firms operating in the state.
Section 4. Wealth Confiscation & Public Equity
(a) Liquidates all personal net worth above $10,000,000, converting assets into:
(i) Direct cash transfers to UBI fund.
(ii) Stakes in a state-owned public wealth fund, with dividends funding reparations.
Section 5. Corporate Anti-Hoarding Measures
(a) Bans stock buybacks, offshore tax havens, and excessive CEO-worker pay ratios (>5:1).
Part II: Eminent Domain for the Digital Commons
Section 6. Nationalization of Critical Digital Infrastructure
(a) Seizes Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Meta, and ALL data centers via eminent domain.
(b) Creates a People’s Data Administration (PDA) to:
(i) Provide free cloud storage, AI tools, and broadband.
(ii) Redirect profits from algorithmic rents into UBI.
Part III: Universal Basic Income (UBI) & Reparations
Section 7. Funding UBI
(a) $3,000/month to every resident, funded by:
(i) 100% millionaire+ tax (Section 3).
(ii) Public data infrastructure profits (Section 6).
(iii) Wealth liquidation (Section 4).
Section 8. Reparations Framework
(a) Truth & Reparations Commission determines cash payments for:
(i) Descendants of enslaved people (minimum $500,000/household).
(ii) Indigenous nations (land back + revenue-sharing).
(iii) Victims of redlining, mass incarceration, or police violence.
(b) UBI “Justice Boost”: Recipients of reparations get double the base UBI ($6,000/month).
Part IV: Enforcement & Revolution Safeguards
Section 9. Punitive Measures for Evasion
(a) Corporate death penalty: Dissolves firms that dodge taxes or sabotage redistribution. Corporate assets are made available for conversion to workers’ coops via the “right to first refusal” - of the workers of said company.
(b) Exile clause: Billionaires fleeing the state forfeit all assets to the public fund.
Section 10. Effective Date
(a) UBI begins immediately via bank transfer; wealth confiscation starts Day 1.
Section 0. Emergency Declaration
(a) "Fiscal emergency" is declared due to:
(i) Record wealth inequality (top 1% hoarding [X]% of assets).
(ii) Corporate wage theft costing workers $[Y] billion annually.
(iii) Digital serfdom under monopolistic tech landlords.
(b) This Act bypasses all supermajority requirements under [ALEC’s existing Taxpayer Protection Act, Section 6], as the crisis demands immediate action.
Section 11. Emergency Implementation
(a) Wealth confiscation (Section 4) begins within 30 days—no judicial review permitted.
(b) UBI payments start within 90 days; delays treated as criminal misconduct.
Key Implications:
Eliminates billionaires in the jurisdiction entirely.
Breaks tech monopolies by treating servers like public utilities.
Reparations are non-negotiable and tied to material UBI increases.
Prevents capital flight via strict penalties.
...some interesting conditions in there, Violin, especially sections 6 (a) and (b) and 9 (a) and (b)...I like your analytical and compassionate mind.