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Introduction

The national agenda should focus on problems federal policy can actually improve: healthcare financing, housing supply incentives, permitting reform, anti-monopoly enforcement, income-floor design, tax reform, civil liberties, immigration, and democratic competition.

1. National Housing Abundance

Use federal incentives, financing, infrastructure support, and permitting reform to reward states and cities that legalize more homes and reduce artificial scarcity.

  • Current federal policy
  • What is broken
  • Our reform
  • Who benefits
  • Critics and tradeoffs
  • Implementation steps
  • Sources to add

2. Freedom Floor

Design a tapered income floor or negative-income-tax style support that protects people from destitution while making work, family formation, mobility, and entrepreneurship easier.

  • Current federal policy
  • What is broken
  • Our reform
  • Who benefits
  • Critics and tradeoffs
  • Implementation steps
  • Sources to add

3. Health Assurance

Study catastrophic protection, direct primary care, transparent prices, nonprofit or mutual basic plans, and proactive health measurement as a practical alternative to endless insurance complexity.

  • Current federal policy
  • What is broken
  • Our reform
  • Who benefits
  • Critics and tradeoffs
  • Implementation steps
  • Sources to add

4. Anti-monopoly Markets

Use antitrust, procurement reform, transparency, and competition policy to challenge rent-seeking in hospitals, tech, housing, finance, agriculture, and captured regulatory systems.

  • Current federal policy
  • What is broken
  • Our reform
  • Who benefits
  • Critics and tradeoffs
  • Implementation steps
  • Sources to add

5. Democracy That Works

Support ranked-choice voting, open primaries, independent redistricting, ballot access, transparent procurement, and public dashboards that let citizens see what government is doing.

  • Current federal policy
  • What is broken
  • Our reform
  • Who benefits
  • Critics and tradeoffs
  • Implementation steps
  • Sources to add

6. Civil Liberty And Privacy

Defend speech, due process, privacy, religious liberty, digital rights, and limits on surveillance so abundance politics remains firmly pro-freedom.

  • Current federal policy
  • What is broken
  • Our reform
  • Who benefits
  • Critics and tradeoffs
  • Implementation steps
  • Sources to add