{ "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema#", "_description": "Responsible America policy taxonomy. Machine-readable; the authoritative human explanation lives in docs/policy-framework.md. Not a permanent ceiling — divisions, sections, and subsections may grow.", "organization": "Responsible America", "platform": "The American Renewal Plan", "subtitle": "A Comprehensive Plan to Make America Work Again", "thesis": "America is not broke. It is mismanaged.", "levels": [ { "level": 1, "name": "Foundational Commitments", "description": "20-30 short principles ordinary citizens can understand quickly. Not a substitute for the full plan." }, { "level": 2, "name": "Complete Reform Platform", "description": "The full numbered American Renewal Plan. Currently extends through at least 160 proposals; no fixed ceiling." }, { "level": 3, "name": "Issues Laboratory", "description": "Proposals under research, public discussion, legal review, or fiscal analysis. Does not graduate to Level 2 merely because it sounds attractive — it must pass editorial, legal, and fiscal review." } ], "reform_statuses": [ "draft", "research_review", "legal_review", "fiscal_review", "editorial_review", "approved", "published", "archived" ], "divisions": [ { "id": "div-01", "number": 1, "name": "The American Renewal Plan", "role": "principal_platform" }, { "id": "div-02", "number": 2, "name": "The $36 Trillion Problem" }, { "id": "div-03", "number": 3, "name": "Guardrails for Democracy" }, { "id": "div-04", "number": 4, "name": "Corporate Power and Political Money" }, { "id": "div-05", "number": 5, "name": "The Middle-Class Recovery Plan" }, { "id": "div-06", "number": 6, "name": "Supreme Court Decisions and Constitutional Loopholes" }, { "id": "div-07", "number": 7, "name": "Government Secrecy and UAP Disclosure" }, { "id": "div-08", "number": 8, "name": "National Spending and Military Accountability" }, { "id": "div-09", "number": 9, "name": "Mental Health, Families, and Human Development" }, { "id": "div-10", "number": 10, "name": "Healthcare and Prescription-Drug Reform" }, { "id": "div-11", "number": 11, "name": "Education and American Competitiveness" }, { "id": "div-12", "number": 12, "name": "Fair Banking and Consumer Credit" }, { "id": "div-13", "number": 13, "name": "Clean Energy, Environment, and Resilience" }, { "id": "div-14", "number": 14, "name": "Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Competition" }, { "id": "div-15", "number": 15, "name": "Citizen Action Center", "role": "tool_not_reform_set" }, { "id": "div-16", "number": 16, "name": "Responsible America Issues Laboratory", "role": "level_3_container" }, { "id": "div-17", "number": 17, "name": "Responsible America Public Scorecard", "role": "accountability_tool" } ], "sections": [ { "id": "A", "key": "elections", "name": "Elections and Representative Government", "division": "div-03", "subsections": [ "affirmative-right-to-vote", "minimum-federal-election-standards", "voter-verifiable-paper-records", "election-audits", "independent-redistricting", "gerrymandering", "ranked-choice-voting", "majority-elections", "open-or-top-four-primaries", "electoral-college-reform", "national-popular-vote", "ballot-access", "election-administrator-protection", "election-worker-protection", "certification-safeguards", "peaceful-transfer-of-power", "foreign-election-interference", "election-subversion" ], "slug": "elections-and-representative-government" }, { "id": "B", "key": "campaign-finance", "name": "Campaign Finance and Super PACs", "division": "div-04", "subsections": [ "constitutional-authority-to-regulate-spending", "extreme-financing-limits", "small-donor-public-financing", "real-time-donor-disclosure", "beneficial-owner-disclosure", "dark-money", "shell-companies", "independent-expenditures", "super-pac-contribution-rules", "candidate-super-pac-coordination", "common-vendors", "former-campaign-staff", "ad-archives", "corporate-union-political-spending", "shareholder-approval", "artificial-political-entities" ], "slug": "campaign-finance-and-super-pacs" }, { "id": "C", "key": "lobbying", "name": "Lobbying and Government Influence", "division": "div-04", "subsections": [ "lobbying-transparency-and-influence-accountability", "searchable-contact-records", "clients", "intermediaries", "targets-of-influence", "issues-discussed", "money-spent", "draft-language-supplied", "former-official-lobbying", "cooling-off-periods", "revolving-door", "government-contractors", "regulatory-capture", "foreign-lobbying", "think-tank-and-nonprofit-influence", "constituent-protections" ], "slug": "lobbying-and-government-influence" }, { "id": "D", "key": "corporate-power", "name": "Corporate Power", "division": "div-04", "subsections": [ "corporate-constitutional-rights-clarification", "natural-vs-artificial-persons", "organizational-rights-necessary-for-lawful-operation", "limits-on-political-domination", "monopoly-power", "antitrust", "private-equity", "healthcare-consolidation", "housing-consolidation", "banking-concentration", "media-concentration", "data-control", "labor-market-concentration", "mergers", "corporate-subsidies", "public-benefit-conditions", "clawbacks", "shareholder-transparency", "employee-and-community-effects", "stock-buybacks", "executive-compensation", "corporate-political-influence" ], "slug": "corporate-power" }, { "id": "E", "key": "tax", "name": "Tax Reform", "division": "div-02", "subsections": [ "corporate-tax-rates", "minimum-effective-corporate-taxation", "excess-profit-taxation", "monopoly-rents", "profit-shifting", "tax-havens", "transfer-pricing", "carried-interest", "capital-gains", "labor-income", "inherited-gains", "stepped-up-basis", "high-income-avoidance", "tax-expenditures", "deductions", "credits", "exclusions", "hidden-subsidies", "automatic-sunsets", "domestic-reinvestment-incentives", "wage-and-job-requirements", "public-subsidy-registries", "tax-enforcement", "taxpayer-due-process", "irs-modernization", "simpler-filing", "prefilled-returns", "middle-class-tax-burden" ], "slug": "tax-reform" }, { "id": "F", "key": "executive-power", "name": "Executive Power and Presidential Abuse", "division": "div-03", "subsections": [ "presidential-criminal-immunity", "official-vs-unofficial-conduct", "self-pardons", "pardons-for-associates", "bribery", "conflicts-of-interest", "emoluments", "presidential-businesses", "emergency-powers", "military-deployment", "domestic-use-of-force", "law-enforcement-politicization", "inspectors-general", "retaliation", "loyalty-based-appointments", "acting-officials", "impoundment", "executive-orders", "congressional-subpoenas", "record-preservation", "classification", "election-interference", "peaceful-transfer-of-power", "attacks-on-independent-institutions", "misuse-of-government-resources" ], "slug": "executive-power-and-presidential-abuse" }, { "id": "G", "key": "congress", "name": "Congress and Legislative Reform", "division": "div-03", "subsections": [ "congressional-term-limits", "career-politicians", "committee-power", "leadership-concentration", "campaign-fundraising", "constituent-representation", "congressional-stock-trading", "blind-trusts", "attendance-and-voting-transparency", "bill-readability", "single-subject-rules", "public-review-periods", "last-minute-amendments", "earmarks", "shutdown-prevention", "automatic-continuing-resolutions", "congressional-subpoenas", "war-authorization", "budget-responsibilities", "public-vote-explanations", "revolving-door-restrictions", "staff-influence", "legislative-scorecards" ], "slug": "congress-and-legislative-reform" }, { "id": "H", "key": "courts", "name": "Courts and Supreme Court Reform", "division": "div-06", "subsections": [ "supreme-court-term-limits", "staggered-appointments", "binding-ethics-code", "gifts-and-travel-disclosure", "recusal", "conflicts-of-interest", "court-size-rules", "emergency-docket-transparency", "judicial-appointments", "lower-court-vacancies", "forum-shopping", "standing", "judicial-remedies", "qualified-immunity", "arbitration", "access-to-justice" ], "slug": "courts-and-supreme-court-reform" }, { "id": "I", "key": "mental-health", "name": "Mental Health, Childhood, and Families", "division": "div-09", "subsections": [ "voluntary-childhood-screening", "informed-consent", "family-privacy", "adverse-childhood-experiences", "abuse-prevention", "domestic-violence", "parental-addiction", "neglect", "household-instability", "parenting-education", "family-counseling", "school-mental-health-teams", "crisis-response", "addiction-treatment", "suicide-prevention", "loneliness", "veterans", "elderly-isolation", "family-preservation", "child-safety", "foster-care", "early-intervention" ], "slug": "mental-health-childhood-and-families" }, { "id": "J", "key": "education", "name": "Education and Human Development", "division": "div-11", "subsections": [ "early-childhood-development", "literacy", "mathematics", "science", "civics", "constitutional-education", "financial-literacy", "media-literacy", "critical-thinking", "teacher-compensation", "teacher-quality", "education-funding-fairness", "special-education", "apprenticeships", "skilled-trades", "community-colleges", "career-credentials", "four-year-institutions", "student-debt", "college-costs", "administrative-spending", "outcomes-by-program", "research-universities", "adult-retraining", "ai-era-education" ], "slug": "education-and-human-development" }, { "id": "K", "key": "healthcare", "name": "Healthcare and Prescription Drugs", "division": "div-10", "subsections": [ "universal-access-essential-care", "catastrophic-protection", "primary-care", "preventive-care", "emergency-care", "maternity-care", "mental-health-care", "public-insurance-option", "private-insurance-competition", "hospital-consolidation", "hospital-tax-exemptions", "nonprofit-hospital-accountability", "medical-debt", "billing-and-collections", "charity-care", "price-transparency", "prescription-negotiation", "generic-competition", "biosimilars", "patent-manipulation", "pharmacy-benefit-managers", "insurer-denials", "prior-authorization", "administrative-overhead", "public-research-return", "rural-healthcare", "medical-workforce-shortages" ], "slug": "healthcare-and-prescription-drugs" }, { "id": "L", "key": "banking", "name": "Banking, Credit, and the Federal Reserve", "division": "div-12", "subsections": [ "bank-credit-creation", "capital-requirements", "liquidity", "systemic-risk", "taxpayer-rescues", "shareholder-losses", "executive-accountability", "credit-card-interest", "penalty-rates", "fees", "minimum-payments", "consumer-disclosures", "mortgage-lending", "payday-lending", "auto-lending", "student-lending", "credit-reporting", "debt-collection", "public-banking", "postal-banking", "community-banks", "credit-unions", "bank-concentration", "payment-networks", "federal-reserve-transparency", "emergency-lending", "inflation", "employment", "household-debt", "housing-effects", "asset-price-effects" ], "slug": "banking-credit-and-the-federal-reserve" }, { "id": "M", "key": "work", "name": "Work, Wages, and Economic Security", "division": "div-05", "subsections": [ "minimum-wages", "regional-costs", "wage-theft", "employee-misclassification", "overtime", "portable-benefits", "collective-bargaining", "worker-choice", "union-transparency", "profit-sharing", "employee-ownership", "paid-family-leave", "childcare", "automation", "ai-displacement", "wage-insurance", "retraining", "workforce-councils", "employee-board-representation", "domestic-employment", "outsourcing", "benefit-cliffs", "earned-income-support", "negative-income-tax", "guaranteed-minimum-income", "universal-basic-income-pilots" ], "slug": "work-wages-and-economic-security" }, { "id": "N", "key": "housing", "name": "Housing and Homelessness", "division": "div-05", "subsections": [ "housing-supply", "zoning", "permitting", "accessory-dwelling-units", "missing-middle-housing", "commercial-conversion", "parking-requirements", "infrastructure-capacity", "institutional-ownership", "beneficial-ownership", "rent-setting-algorithms", "tenant-rights", "landlord-due-process", "deposits", "repairs", "eviction-process", "housing-courts", "emergency-shelter", "supportive-housing", "veterans-homelessness", "family-homelessness", "chronic-homelessness", "disaster-housing" ], "slug": "housing-and-homelessness" }, { "id": "O", "key": "environment", "name": "Environment, Energy, and Climate", "division": "div-13", "subsections": [ "clean-air", "clean-water", "pollution", "childhood-health", "toxic-contamination", "polluter-pays", "environmental-justice", "carbon-emissions", "climate-risk", "disaster-resilience", "flood-protection", "wildfire", "coastal-risk", "building-standards", "insurance", "grid-reliability", "transmission", "energy-storage", "cybersecurity", "solar", "wind", "geothermal", "hydroelectricity", "advanced-nuclear", "efficiency", "home-energy-improvements", "electric-vehicles", "charging", "battery-supply-chains", "domestic-manufacturing", "critical-minerals", "recycling", "solar-financing-consumer-protection", "transition-reliability" ], "slug": "environment-energy-and-climate" }, { "id": "P", "key": "infrastructure", "name": "Infrastructure and National Investment", "division": "div-05", "subsections": [ "roads", "bridges", "transit", "rail", "ports", "airports", "drinking-water", "wastewater", "stormwater", "broadband", "electric-grid", "dams", "levees", "schools", "public-buildings", "maintenance-backlogs", "project-permitting", "cost-overruns", "procurement", "domestic-materials", "lifecycle-cost", "rural-infrastructure", "disaster-resilience" ], "slug": "infrastructure-and-national-investment" }, { "id": "Q", "key": "ai-strategic-competition", "name": "Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Competition", "division": "div-14", "subsections": [ "ai-research", "national-computing-infrastructure", "university-access", "startup-access", "compute-concentration", "semiconductors", "robotics", "quantum-computing", "biotechnology", "advanced-materials", "cybersecurity", "workforce-displacement", "algorithmic-decisions", "due-process", "high-impact-ai", "children", "privacy", "deepfakes", "political-manipulation", "defense-technology", "supply-chains", "ip-security", "competition-with-china", "cooperation-with-allies", "national-industrial-strategy" ], "slug": "artificial-intelligence-and-strategic-competition" }, { "id": "R", "key": "military-foreign-policy", "name": "Military, Defense, and Foreign Policy", "division": "div-08", "subsections": [ "defense-audits", "financial-management", "weapons-programs", "procurement-failures", "independent-testing", "cost-overruns", "contractor-influence", "revolving-doors", "overseas-bases", "troop-deployments", "military-readiness", "veteran-services", "war-powers", "congressional-authorization", "war-financing", "foreign-assistance", 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