Gas price went up significantly in 2022. CA legislature had two plans to give California people a relief:

• Suspend the gas tax, so people pays less at the pump
• Give people a rebate check depending on their income, and the rebate check conveniently arrives right before the Midterm Election

The legislature passed the second plan. Which plan do you prefer?

This is the summary of the results.

Please see the detailed results here.

Since Prop 47, California changed many crimes, especially property "thefts", into misdemeanors. Those so called "Petty theft" are essentially not punished.

There are many reasons resulted this change. One of them is that incarceration is very expensive.

Sure, by not incarcerating at all the government can save some money. But the cost is pushed to normal people.

California falls into a dilemma: it costs government money if punishing "petty theft" by incarceration; it costs people's property and safety if not punishing at all.

But the people and the government has social contract: the people pay taxes and obey the laws and the government should maintain social order for the community. Now by not maintaining the social order, the government broke the social contract.

Below is the summary of the results.

Please see here for detailed voting results.

CUSD board is planning to have a bond measure for 2022 general election. Here is the detail for two plans.

How do you support the two plans and the proposed projects?

SB 9 took effect on 01/01/2022. What's your opinion about it?

This is the text of AB 2098, which was introduced by Assembly Member Evan Low.

This is the text of AB 1400. This is the text of ACA 11.

Below is the incomplete list of reports for the bills. • ACA 11: California Constitutional Amendment Would Double Taxes (based-politics.com) • California Revisits Offering Universal Health Care, Despite No Clear Plan to Pay for It (msn.com) • Universal health care bill advances in California Assembly | AP News • Single-payer health care: what Californians need to know - CalMatters

Myths about California Universal Health Care System

1. Health Care is a right.
   • False. Rights are given by God, not granted from the Government. The government can only protect rights.
2. AB 1400 and ACA 11 will almost double the state tax.
   • Both True and False.

   i. True: All health care expenses will be in the form of tax, which is almost the current level of state tax. ii. False: At the same time, employers and individuals don’t have to pay for health insurance and premiums and copayments, so it’s a trade of above payments to the form of state tax. But we don’t know the amount of current payments would be the same, more than or less than the proposed state tax.

3. AB 1400 and ACA 11 will reduce the total medical expense of all Californians
   • Unknown. There is no real number to support either claim, but currently all state run programs are wasteful and inefficient. Upgrading to Democracy 2.0 will help make the claim true.
4. AB 1400 and ACA 11 will eliminate all private medical insurances in California
   • Mostly true. Depends on the program. In the UK, which is a single payer system, some private medical insurances are still available. Most private medical insurance companies will disappear in California for sure. Some businesses which are both insurers and medical providers won’t survive in single payer system.

What’s missing in AB 1400 and ACA 11 In the proposed health care system, there are givers and takers. When there are more givers than takers (in terms of amount of money), the system runs better and better. When there are more takers than givers, the system will degrade and eventually broken down.

What should be done when there are more takers? Will the givers give even more to meet ends?

According to AB 1400, switching to Universal Health Care System is based on a report BEFORE the system is implemented, or make the major switch based on hypothetical data only. It’s very irresponsible and won’t go well.

My Proposal Instead of establishing a full Universal Health Care System, proposed CalCare should start as an alternative Government run Medical Insurance, which competes with existing medical insurances. CalCare should cover State employees and retirees first. It’s a large enough pool to support a medical insurance to run and figure out the cost for the coverage. It should be open to all California residents, and private company employees can also switch to CalCare voluntarily.

By doing so, we can collect real data for the cost. Since all the participants will contribute, CalCare should have surplus. The surplus should provide to expand Medicare and County healthcare systems. If CalCare works as expected that it reduces overall cost and participants’ medical expense, most if not all California residents will switch to CalCare. And the surplus of CalCare will elevate Medicare or equivalent system to the same level of quality as CalCare.

Winning by competition is much better than by mandate.

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It's much safer than current voting systems. Voters can be confident with the result because they can verify the results themselves.

My name is Long Jiao. I am a Software Engineer and fist generation immigrant. I have had no political experience before. Please contact me if you can provide any help.

I am running for State Assembly of AD 26. Ask me anything @ longforassembly@gmail.com.

AD 26 comprises of Alviso, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and some part of San Jose. Please see https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/map_viewer for detail.

I will run as a Democrat.

My plan is to upgrade the Democracy we are practicing without violating or changing existing laws.

I call current Democracy 1.0. Democracy 1.0 is a wholesale deal. Voters elect representatives to fully represent them in the Legislature. In theory, representatives can vote however they want.

Democracy 1.0 causes problems in theory and in reality.

There are only four ways of spending money:

1. You spend your own money on yourself. Our everyday life falls in this model. And it's the most efficient way of spending money.
2. You spend your own money on someone else. Think of giving gifts for a coworker's baby shower. You tend to not care about the gift, with staying under the budget being your main concern.
3. You spend someone else's money on yourself. This can be legal. For example, if you're on a business trip, your company can compensate for meals. You tend to spend as close to the limit as possible.
4. You spend someone else's money on someone else. You tend to not care about how much you spend and how the money is spent. Unfortunately, our Government falls in this model in Democracy 1.0.

The case is not only limited to money, but to everything, like natural resources and even the safety of the society. Even worse, representatives are trying to convert some resources from Model 4 to Model 3, which is they can benefit from the resources they control for all the people. That's why most people think their representatives are out of touch and even corrupted.

In my opinion, people chose Democracy 1.0 with representatives due to technical limitations. In the past, the only way people were able to communicate efficiently is to come together so they can hear each other directly.

But times have changed. With the Internet, people can freely discuss issues online at any time and any place.

My platform is that I have two promises.

1. Once elected, I'll post all the bills I am going to vote on in advance so people may deliberate them. Voters in my district can vote on each bill after deliberations. I'll provide a platform for discussion and voting.
2. My official vote will always go with the result of the voters in my district. I will faithfully represent voters in my district.

I have my own opinion on everything, but my opinion isn't more important than a regular voter in my district. I'll accept the results if it doesn't go my way.

I call candidates or representatives who made these two promises as Democracy 2.0 candidates or representatives. Democracy 2.0 is a retail deal. People can get involved in any topic they are interested while leave those they are not interested in to their representatives and neighbors.

In this way, people become the de-facto law makers. All the voters together can be considered as all the people. All the people control how to spend our tax dollars on all the people, how to deal with the environment they live in for all the people. As a result, the legislative branch becomes Model 1: The people spend their tax dollars on themselves. (Please replace tax dollars to other resources.) This is the most efficient model in economics.

Democracy 2.0 can apply to any level of the legislative branch, no matter if they are School Districts, City Councils, State Assemblies and Senates, or the Congress.

It will also be the first time to fulfill an American dream: the Government should be of the people, for the people and by the people.

If you are tired of partisan politics, vote for Democracy 2.0 candidates. If you are tired of special interest controlled representatives, vote for Democracy 2.0 candidates. If you know our current system need to change, but don't know how to change it, Democracy 2.0 is the answer for you. If your favorite candidates are not yet Democracy 2.0, demand them to be one.

Now let's start to upgrade our society.

Together let's upgrade to Democracy 2.0!

See https://longforassembly.com/

The mission of Pofetl Inc is to upgrade our society to Democracy 2.0.

To achieve this mission, we urge all candidates for legislative branch, no matter which level you are running for, School Districts, City Councils, State Assemblies and Senates, or the Congress, to declare to be Pofetl Complaint.

Pofetl Complaint incudes two promises:

1. After elected, Pofetl Complaint Representatives should publish all the bills they are going to vote on pofetl.com in advance. People can deliberate on all of them, and they can vote on each of them after deliberation.
2. In official votes, Pofetl Complaint Representatives should always vote according to the result of their districts. In other words, Pofetl Complaint Representatives will faithfully represent voters in their districts regardless their own opinion.

List of Pofetl Complaint candidates or representatives:

• Long Jiao, candidate for California Assembly Member.

AD 26 comprises of Alviso, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and some of North San Jose. Please see https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/map_viewer for detail.

I am a Software Engineer and fist generation immigrant. I have had no political experience before. Please DM me if you can provide any help.

My platform has determined that I will run as independent.

My plan is to upgrade the Democracy we are practicing without violating or changing existing laws.

I call current Democracy 1.0. Democracy 1.0 is a wholesale deal. Voters elect representatives to fully represent them in the Legislature. In theory, representatives can vote however they want.

Democracy 1.0 causes problems in theory and in reality.

There are only four ways of spending money:

1. You spend your own money on yourself. Our everyday life falls in this model. And it's the most efficient way of spending money.
2. You spend your own money on someone else. Think of giving gifts for a coworker's baby shower. You tend to not care about the gift, with staying under the budget being your main concern.
3. You spend someone else's money on yourself. This can be legal. For example, if you're on a business trip, your company can compensate for meals. You tend to spend as close to the limit as possible.
4. You spend someone else's money on someone else. You tend to not care about how much you spend and how the money is spent. Unfortunately, our Government falls in this model in Democracy 1.0.

The case is not only limited to money, but to everything, like natural resources and even the safety of the society. Even worse, representatives are trying to convert some resources from Model 4 to Model 3, which is they can benefit from the resources they control for all the people. That's why most people think their representatives are out of touch.

In my opinion, people chose Democracy 1.0 with representatives due to technical limitations. In the past, the only way people were able to communicate efficiently is to come together so they can hear each other directly.

But times have changed. With the Internet, people can freely discuss issues online at any time and any place.

My platform is that I have two promises.

1. Once elected, I'll post all the bills I am going to vote on in advance so people may deliberate them. Voters in my district can vote on each bill after deliberations. I'll provide a platform for discussion and voting.
2. My official vote will always go with the result of the voters in my district. I will faithfully represent voters in my district.

I have my own opinion on everything, but my opinion isn't more important than a regular voter in my district. I'll accept the results if it doesn't go my way.

I call candidates or representatives who made these two promises as Democracy 2.0 candidates or representatives. Democracy 2.0 is a retail detail. People can get involved in any topic they are interested while leave those they are not interested in to their representatives and neighbors.

In this way, people become the de-facto law makers. All the voters together can be considered as all the people. All the people control how to spend our tax dollars on all the people, how to deal with the environment they live in for all the people. As a result, the legislative branch becomes Model 1: The people spend their tax dollars on themselves. (Please replace tax dollars to other resources.) This is the most efficient model in economics.

Democracy 2.0 can apply to any level of the legislative branch, no matter if they are School Districts, City Councils, State Assemblies and Senates, or the Congress.

It will also be the first time to fulfill an American dream: the Government should be of the people, for the people and by the people.

If you are tired of partisan politics, vote for Democracy 2.0 candidates. If you are tired of special interest controlled representatives, vote for Democracy 2.0 candidates. If you know our current system need to change, but don't know how to change it, Democracy 2.0 is the answer for you. If your favorite candidates are not yet Democracy 2.0, demand them to be one.

Now let's start to upgrade our society.

Together let's upgrade to Democracy 2.0!

Voting

What do you think about Prop 47? Should we keep it or repeal it or modify it?

What do you think about Prop 57? Should we keep it or repeal it or modify it?

Please share your opinion.

The mission of Pofetl is to upgrade our society to Democracy 2.0!

Our current representative democracy is Democracy 1.0. After a representative is elected, voters have almost no control over their representatives. In theory, representatives can vote however they want.

Democracy 2.0 means that representatives fully represent voters in their districts. For each bill, voters in districts will deliberate and vote after deliberation. Their representatives will faithfully follow the voting results in their districts, being Pofetl Compliant.

Democracy 1.0 is a compromise due to technical limitations. In order to have discussions, people had to come together in a common area. Democracy 1.0 had to use representatives instead of voters to form a legislature.

With the Internet and the technology of Pofetl, all voters can discuss problems at any time, in any place, and they can cast verifiable votes freely. This makes Democracy 2.0 possible.

Democracy 1.0 has failed from theory to reality. There are four ways to spend money. In Democracy 1.0, representatives spend tax dollars on other people, or model 4. That's why the representatives are so out of touch -- the economic model determines they don't care. Even worse, they have the desire to convert part of model 4 to model 3, so that they benefit from spending tax dollars. This is corruption.

The same applies to other government controlled resources, like safety and natural resources, etc.

But in Democracy 2.0, voters become the de facto legislature branch, which controls the resources shared by all the people. The economic model becomes model 1, that is, the people spend their own money on themselves, which is the most efficient way of spending.

The American Dream about the government is that the government is of the people, by the people and for the people. With Democracy 2.0, this American Dream will become true for the first time.

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