Summary
What do you think of government web site where citizens could pay $20 to submit an idea to local/state/federal government and have it get to and reviewed by the right people in the right government department. Citizens could also pay a small amount of money for points on the site. The points would be used to vote or comment on ideas which get posted on the website The $20 is to pay for employees review time, and the pennies paid for a comment or vote is just to keep quality high. Politicians and government employees would frequent the site to interact with their voters.
What are your thoughts?
Details if you care
Sign up with name, last social digits, phone # and email. Fill out profile.
Ideas to improve the government from professionals in every industry would be posted to site and voted on by citizens and government employees.
Pay $20 to have your paragraph summarized government idea reviewed by the right government employees. $5 for each second or third paragraph, if necessary. Have ideas, proposals, bills, etc put on site. First vote free, then 20 cents worth of points each vote and they can vote up to 5 times to let government employees know they are serious. Have behavioral economist determine best way to get accurate votes and comments because maybe there's a way without charging people. $20 idea submissions would be necessary to pay for government review of idea and reduce spam. Maybe pay $5, $10, $20 and get a certain amount of points that can be used for votes and comments. Every time you use points a the total point number in the upper corner of site is updated. Person who submitted the idea gets to comment on it for free.
Each idea would have a status bar of where it is. Government employees would be able to post their concerns or problems with ideas so citizens can try to solve them for a certain amount of money to keep quality high and spam down. They would also be able to use points they buy to vote on ideas. Ideas that reach a certain amount of citizen votes would require a meeting and public reply.
Twitter/social media would be used to tweet out links and problem using industry specific hashtag. Professionals would then be able to sign in to site and post a solution for people to vote on.
Politicians would campaign or support good ideas. Verified .gov email addresses would be tagged as special .gov employees/politicians who could vote on idea which would also be a signature on an online petition page for the idea/bill. Basically they could use the site the same as every other user, but they would be able to see details the public couldn't see like a google analytic like dashboard for stats on ideas/bills. Public could see some general stats on ideas/bills.
Each idea would be reviewed by a pool of multiple government employees. Some random employees are selected and vote anonymously in poll and results are made public. If idea gets implemented then a list of people who supported/sponsored it would be linked to it and made public. People would have stats of their support on ideas/bills that get passed.
Maybe people could pay $30 to resurrect old ideas to a resurrection page and if they get a certain number of votes they get another review.
Medicaid/SNAP beneficiaries get half off submission charges.
Auditors would keep the pool of government employees who review suggestions fair and there would be a way to report suspected bias to central site.
Every bill posted to site would have succinct nonpartisan description and pros and cons and various tags. Citizens could rate or order each pros and cons for a certain amount of points.
Profit could go to maintaining site, idea reviews.
--Adam B.
