The 58 Capital Plan

App for Democracy: Democracy -- direct citizen voting -- is more possible now than ever with the speed we exchange information. The California Democracy App will be a centralized place to take surveys to impact change from your local fire board to your governor's office. Investigated as an easier way to collect ballot measure signatures.

Reforming Ballots: President and VP are two separate elections and should be listed as such on the ballot. A single vote ballot traps us in the two party system. With options like Ranked Choice Voting and STAR Voting, Californians can better express their interest position on the ballot. Rather than pushing election reform through legislature or ballot measure, the people need to be aware of our options before choosing.

Commercial Ban for political ads: Political advertisements have reached a point of harassment. All propaganda will be banned. What will be allowed is invitations to nearby or online events and groups. 

Holiday for Elections: All people, regardless of their work schedule, have the right to be an informed voter. This means things like restaurants, grocery stores, and banks need to be closed on election day. All hourly workers will have to be paid for five hours of work, grants available for small business. Emergency employers will need to ensure employees have been compensated with their day off.

Freshening Food Standards: Helping farmers to transition away from plastic and toxic chemical pesticides to improve their health and protect our food products. Removing plastic from food processing and providing a certification of safety.

Accessible Protein: Investing in hunting industries to enable safe storage and sale of hunted meats. Revitalization of wildlife populations to enable more natural food supply. Encouraging chicken-communities where neighborhoods have chickens for eggs and meat.

Regional Agriculture: Investing in local farms and agricultural initiatives to reduce reliance on imported goods and transportation costs, including plastic-free hydroponic towers, rooftop gardens, and investment in existing networks that support small farms. Leveling subsidies between meat and protein crops. Planting fruit trees in communities without fresh access.

Modern Crop Development: Supporting desert or low water versions of crops (ie cactus fruit wine), investing in oceanic farming to utilize our coastline safely and effectively. Investing in breeding with local plants (like how the Romans made broccoli and brussel sprouts). We need to desalinate water and steam it over the hills to refill the Central Valley, we can use solar mirrors to make the steam.

Increased Housing Supply: Incentivizing the construction of fireproof housing for new neighborhoods in fire risk zones (underground, concrete, domes, &c.), vaulted parking structure like towers for stacked tiny homes, building condos as bridges over freeways/aqueducts to reclaim space–called Hillments and have parks on top. Provide free housing on community edges for fire prevention teams, like park rangers.

Rent Control Measures: Extend rent controls to leased homes. Ban on non-Californian companies from owning houses in the state. Rent freeze for 4 years or until wages increase significantly. We need to make landlords our wage advocates.

Focus on Affordable Condos: Affordable apartments can perpetuate poverty. We need to refocus investment in $0 down, affordable condos–targeting a starting price of $100k. 

Mixed Income Developments: All new builds will be required to have diversified income options, economic integration is the pathway to equitable schools and public services. By having units on one property from $100,000 to $2M+ you can more easily balance the project budget.

Universal Healthcare Coverage: Building free public hospitals in all regions with hospital bed shortages, integrated directly with free or low cost medical schools. Expanding public health as needed from there. Free healthcare will not be income based. We will deregulate corporate medical mandates, not outlaw.

Prescription Drug Cost Reduction: Investing in drug production and agriculture, to have internal controls over pricing and security during global disarray. Investment in ionized plant fibers (feature required for face masks).

Fourth Branch of Government ‘Perpetuity’: Investigating the formation of a fourth branch to contain existing agencies like CalEPA, Department of Food and Agriculture, Department of Healthcare Services) with an elected leader (just like we elect a treasurer and leader of insurance, here in California) to steer these agencies. This enables the people to better steer government policy and ideally makes scientific discussion more common and understandable. We’ve glorified the courts with a branch, and look where it’s gotten us. Let’s give out some more glory!

Public Health Spas: These will serve as mental health batteries. Lots of plants that have therapeutic qualities, so the air is the medicine. People will have places to sleep, to receive counseling, and other mental health services. We will make mental health facilities similar to public pools, we have to make healing more appealing than addiction. Recharge with the people.

Advanced Manufacturing: Working with California universities and global tech companies to bring tools like metal 3D printing, biological/enzymatic tech recycling to regions across the state to revitalize local communities.

Worker Protections: Strengthening labor laws, raising the minimum wage. Requiring all companies with 50+ employees to have an internal union (it’s free) this internal union can decide whether to join a larger organization–boards and CEOs should always be in communication with their workers and fully hear their needs and ideas.

Balancing Fuel Regulation: California has a proprietary blend of gasoline: California Reformulated Gasoline, to lower air pollution. We will enable legislation that allows towns and counties that fall below a car population density level, to have regular gasoline, but it will have to be enacted at the local level. Further, the balance of EV’s can also enable this policy. I will work with large external cities to sell them our reformulated gas to incentivize more refineries to produce it and lower its cost for city dwellers.

Space Investment: Space ships are easier to launch form the moon or in space. By investing in public transit systems to orbit, more people will be able to afford to build ships and capitalize on the riches of space mining and exploration, rather than continuing our current oligarchy indefinitly. The People must win the space race, no the billionares.

Renewable Energy Investment: Significant investment in solar, tidal, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources. 100% electrical independence, transition to exclusive exporting. Old mines investigated for long term nuclear waste storage.

Local Energy Security: Helping communities install hyper local electrical storage to prevent power outages. Local Energy Leader program that can train community members for immediate emergency response.

Research and Development: Funding research into advanced energy storage solutions and sustainable energy technologies, specifically into converting salt from desalination into batteries for grid and personal use. Planning for fusion nuclear power (this is hydrogen to helium so it's less radioactive).

Fossil Fuel Transition: Phasing out reliance on fossil fuels by investing in biofuels (desert + oceanic) and investing in tailpipe capture research that can recycle emissions into fertilizer or fuel. Transition oil companies to water ocean water distillation–seperating into its unique parts for sale.

Full Modal Equity: Connecting cities and towns with secured trails that low speed vehicles can utilize. We can bargain leases for mid trail hotels and campgrounds, ensuring hydration in fire prone regions. These will enable horse, ATV, and foot travel between regions. A EV charging station at every freeway exit, no excuses, they’ll be state owned if that is what is required.

State Emergency on Air Quality: We have some of the worst air quality in the nation. This will enable us to push through local public transit systems, and other air quality measures as needed.

High Speed Rail Planning: The longest stage of our high speed rail project has been planning and environmental approvals. We need to plan our Rail for along the 1/101 and 395. We also need to coordinate with our other neighbor states to plan the 10, 40, and 80 HSR.

State Transportation App: This will centralize all public transit ticketing and road information across the state. You will be able to buy one ticket no matter the number of transit facilities you use in the trip. Official road closures and other traffic information will be centralized there automatically.

Increased Funding for Public Schools: Allocating more resources to public schools, particularly in underserved communities. Integrating new universities into high schools. Making the first two years of college (general education) free, it's like a boarding school. Students will have the chance to board across the state after 10th grade.

Teacher Salary Increases: Attracting and retaining highly qualified teachers through competitive salaries and professional integration opportunities. Mixing university and high school teachers as appropriate.

Curriculum Modernization: Updating educational curricula to include critical thinking, digital literacy, computer programing + construction, and vocational skills.

Affordable Higher Education: Opening new, free public universities “Free Cal”, funded with creative taxes like on airplane tickets, taxes on weapons sales to the federal government (currently set to 0%, this is called a sin tax), and other things that require college educated people to make. One university minimum per county. Other public schools will get funding for “Course a Season” providing one free college course to locals per term.

Sustainable Water Management: Developing long-term strategies for sustainable water resource management, including water recycling upstream rather than downstream, including native beavers in our storage strategies, preserving fish breeding spaces to revitalize our fishing industry.

Desalination: Coastal desalination at a scale that can supply coastal communities AND farmers in the Central Valley. Building the baseline so we can expand to exporting Eastward as needed in the future.

Infrastructure Upgrades: Repairing and upgrading aging water infrastructure to prevent leaks and contamination. 

Water Quality Monitoring: Strengthening regulations and increasing monitoring to ensure the safety and purity of drinking water. Extracting pollutants during desalination for construction(carbon), industrial use, or storage.

Repositioning: The police should be a subdivision within the judicial branch. They’re basically a branch of their own right now, operating capitalistically… continued growth and expansion… of the police state… and then when they’re sued for beating people for no reason, that money sometimes comes from the public defender’s budget, further disadvantaging low income people who are more often the victims of police violence.

Traffic Officers: Police have been given too many jobs, they are seemingly untrained in traffic management. Unless there is a hostage situation, police chases should never happen; we have enough cameras, every person on the street is endangered by police chases.

Cashless Bail: We need to implement this statewide. Bail does not even work: bails are set to unreachable amounts, bond agencies pay them and charge a monthly rate, so in reality it’s cheaper to run away, and you would face the same consequences that you would if there was no bail at all. Bail is a scam and it penalizes people accused of crimes that aren’t even guilty, then that money isn’t used to pay for the trial in any way, it just goes to a corporation; this provides monetary incentives for police to round people up without committing crimes, subjecting our officers to bribery and corruption. By investing in public defenders, they can get ridiculous cases thrown out before they clog up our courts, and they can check in with defendants as needed.

End Prison Labor: Private state prisons are closing, so forced prison labor is completely decided by the state. We need to invest in robotics and modern fire fighting technologies, rather than relying on forced labor. We need to expand our mental health services and job training in prisons to ensure people do not return to prison.