THE ELECTORATE
Citizenship · Obligation · Renewal
A New Deal package. Three tracks. You choose. Constitutional amendments required. This is not a rounding error in existing statute.
The offer
Regular Citizen status. You leave federal politics. You leave federal welfare. You keep your life. Proposed caps: still a working paper.
The federal government buys your future Social Security and Medicare liabilities for dimes on the dollar, then negotiates with creditors for even more savings. That is the fiscal point. Not a new standing benefit. A buyout.
Imagine who takes it: the 26-year-old with $80k in student loans and no interest in D.C.; the couple who want a house more than a primary; the person who already does not vote and would like that to be legal, complete, and done. Focus on local issues.
For the left
New Citizen status. Legal. Not the ballot. Not the welfare state. A path that is actually a restriction.
For the right
Fewer voters. Harder roll. Duties attached. The people who keep the federal vote take the job that comes with it.
Wrap it as a New Deal. Do not pretend this fits in ordinary statute. Constitutional amendments would be required.
No tax (to $200k). No welfare. No draft. No vote. Debt relief.
Legal status. English. Clean record. Taxes. No ballot. No benefits.
SAVE Act. Service. $2,000 if you skip. Balanced books. The only federal voters.
Baselines from CDC, CBO, Census, Pew, and the Trustees. Environment, not a score of this paper.
CDC, 2024
Census CPS
Trustees
Pew
Illustrative sorter
A demonstration of self-selection, not a legal determination. Answers stay in this browser and are not stored as an application.
1.Are you a current U.S. citizen?
2.Do you want federal voting rights, with a duty to vote?
3.Do you want to remain inside Social Security and Medicare as they exist?
Student, mortgage, and card relief in exchange for leaving the long-run entitlement stack. Government retires the liability cheap; creditors take a haircut.
Keep Social Security and Medicare only if you join The Electorate. Opt out and the federal welfare relationship ends.
Legalization that does not hand over the electorate. English, no criminal history, tax stake, self-deporters first.
National service is labor for national programs. The federal vote is a duty-bearing privilege of The Electorate, with SAVE Act proof.
This site is the working paper, the pillar essays, and the research landscape. Commentary is open on every page. Caps are proposed. It is not enacted law.
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