- “Guns make for good government.” Correlate economy and human development indicators with the estimated amount of guns in congressional districts, zips, states. (Assumes the purpose of government is enrich people’s quality of life: health, happiness, finances, etc.)
- US Congressional Districts create representation inequalities making some voters more important than others. The 435 amount of seats has mostly remained unchanged since 1913. Factors to understand:
- non-voting populations: imprisoned, felons, non-citizens, disinterested
- populations consistently denied representation by the party they vote for (e.g., Democrats in Wyoming are represented by Republicans; or Republicans in Portland Oregon are suppressed by its liberal majority.)
- histories:
- voting patterns
- overall population
- amount of districts
- average district size
- Plutocracy:
- Define the economic classes
- amount of people in each
- amount of wealth by class
- Cost of living/class
- effective tax rates
- income/class (is there a method of defining dollars in and out of each person or family?)
- Family size
- properly / houses owned or just assets
- Income ratios between F1000 companies’ CEO/CxO and the average worker salary
- CEO = amount of workers
- CEO benefits value
- CEO pay and company performance history
- Increase in CEO pay and increase of average worker
- Inflation rates
- Location of the plutocrats and their companies and their congressional and senatorial representatives
- Create a matrix of “Features” by economic class. Consider that most wealthy people are not prosecuted by the criminal justice system rather they are mostly civil. White collar crimes rarely place criminal in prison whereas a convenance store robbery could yield 20 years in prison. The matrix should provide the % participation rates in each of these factors:
- Healthcare:
- no-deductible
- yes
- none
- Justice System
- Criminal
- incarceration rates
- participation rates
- crime in neighborhoods
- rape / murder rates
- Civil
- participation rates
- fines / penalties
- Arbitration
- participation rates
- Discretionary income
- Pension / retirement income
- Unionization rates
- vacation days
- Financial system access
- FDIC insured banking
- pay-day cashing
- pawn shops
- Home ownership
- Insurance rates
- internet access
- education level / quality
- Infrastructure quality
- water
- pollution levels
- energy quality / power utility fine & violation quantities
- Irrational Societal Investments:
- car backup sensors and driveway deaths
- child healthcare related deaths and/or orphan populations vs abortion
- State Financial Data
- State GDP
- Revenue / taxes:
- People
- Businesses
- Expenses:
- People
- Infrastructure
- Federal Aid (The Tax Foundation calculates by dividing each state’s “intergovernmental revenue” by its “general revenue.” “General revenue” includes all tax revenue but excludes utility revenue, liquor store revenue, and investment income from its state pension funds.
- Largest companies and wealthiest people (are any these companies subsidized (oil) and/or what are their effective tax rates?)
- Top 1% = average wealth; amount of 1% people
- poorest = wealth and amount
- Amount receiving government assistance (personal subsidy)
- Can these data be collected over time?
