The Productive Farmland Protection and Valuation Act is a proposal to protect family farms, support food affordability, reduce speculative pressure on agricultural land, and recognize farmland as food-system infrastructure rather than just another real estate asset.
If politicians receive higher housing, meal, travel, or living allowances because costs have gone up, then the supports people rely on for housing, food, transportation, and daily survival should increase by the same proportion.
Once created, subsidies can become permanent features of the economy without regular proof that they continue to serve the public interest.
The Public Return on Corporate Subsidies Act would require every major corporate subsidy to be reviewed on a four-year cycle to determine whether it is producing a public return greater than its public cost.
The purpose of the Home Stability Property Tax Model is to protect homeowners, seniors, fixed-income residents, family farms, and long-term community members from being forced out of their homes because land speculation has increased the assessed value of the property around them.
If a ministry, agency, board, commission, municipality, or other public body uses AI to help draft, analyze, summarize, classify, recommend, or support a decision, the public should be able to know: