Citizen Carbon Dividend
Per-capita rebate funded by a rising carbon levy, indexed to national emissions targets.
- 01Values test
- 02Constitution test
- 03Modelling
- 04Debate
- 05Vote
Before a policy becomes law it must pass five public gates, in order. Nothing skips ahead. Nothing slips through.
Is the proposal consistent with the values the citizens have affirmed?
Does it infringe on any article of the Constitution?
Project the impact on national signals and on every active target.
Open, structured deliberation with arguments for and against.
Direct citizen vote. Threshold rules per category apply.
Fail any gate and the proposal stops. Pass all five and it becomes law on the date of the vote.
Per-capita rebate funded by a rising carbon levy, indexed to national emissions targets.
Same-week access to a GP for every citizen, funded by reallocated administrative spend.
Caps annual rent increases at CPI + 1% in high-pressure urban zones.
Gradually shift property taxation onto unimproved land value over a 10-year horizon.
Publicly versioned national curriculum, amendable by panels of teachers and citizens.
Mandatory audits of any algorithm used in public-sector decisions affecting more than 10,000 people.
Restorative pathways as default for non-violent first offences, with measured recidivism targets.
National baseline of 80 GWh dispatchable storage by 2032, procured competitively.
Compulsory two-year civic or military service for all citizens aged 18–20.
Why it stopped:Contests the affirmed value of Liberty under law (78% affirmation against compulsion clauses).
Permit ministerial cabinet meetings to be held without public minutes.
Why it stopped:Conflicts with Article III (Right to Deliberate) and Article VI on radical transparency.
Free childcare from 9 months to school age, funded centrally.
A public trust that holds and licenses anonymised citizen data on the people's behalf.