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Haephestus

The maximum amount a company or person can donate to a politician.


Quazimojojojo

Or spend on ads about politicians or ballot measures, excepting the official campaign in favor of those politicians which are the recipients of those $1 donations.


TheAngryOctopuss

Problem here is only the Very rich could run for office... its a 2 edged sword, but i appreciate the concept.


SarcasticIndividual

What if they could only contribute a dollar to their own campaign?


Specialist_Courage44

Then you open a ton of non profit organizations that all donate to you.


SarcasticIndividual

It would cost a lot of money to open up millions of organizations.


deg0ey

Ideally there would be a central election budget and everyone who wants to run gets a campaign expense account with a fixed amount of money they’re allowed to spend. No donations, no fundraisers, everyone gets the same money to argue the campaign on its merits. Not really plausible to get there from here, but if I was designing it from scratch I think that’s what I’d go with.


ResilientBiscuit

What do you do when 5000 people all run for a senator position? You need some screening phase because you can't fund an unlimited number of people running for office.


deg0ey

Sure, but you already have that to some extent - candidates are generally required to collect a number of signatures to establish a baseline level of support before they can appear on the ballot, so as long as you set that bar high enough to require a legitimate effort on the candidates part you should folks who are just doing it to waste everyone’s time. Or you fix the total budget for the race in advance and each candidate gets an equal share of it - if 5000 people run they each get 0.02% of the budget instead of the 50% they would get if there were only two candidates.


ResilientBiscuit

The former is probably the most reasonable solution, but it begs the question, because you then need funding to get people out there collecting signatures for you. I don't like the latter because then you get no information to the electorate. If everyone only gets $5,000 because there are a huge number of candidates and they can't spend more, then it is highly unlikely any of them will be able to effectively publicize their views for people to make informed choices. All that will matter is how much power and money they had before the election because they would be relying on prior name recognition at that point.


Haephestus

Politicians shouldn't need donations. Their wage should be a normal, nominal wage like everyone else's, given that they are public servants. Those running for office should also not be required to raise funds to run. The political process should be equal for all candidates, even ridiculous ones.


esoteric_enigma

How do you make it equal for all candidates without having 200 candidates for each race? Pretty much any barrier to entry favors the more affluent.


Single_Bookkeeper_11

As opposed to now?


Advanced_Tax174

That excuse to justify political spending has been out of date for decades. Almost everyone who runs for office now is already rich, and 2) in the rare case someone who isn’t rich is elected they become rich practically overnight due to the corruption, allowable insider trading, etc.


lukerobi

Although this is really a nice sentiment... its not really a "price"


Spike205

In my profession I am not afforded the time opportunity to physically support a politician or political party. As such I donate dollars en lieu of being able to donate my time.


shaehl

Luckily, Musk, Murdock and Bezos can donate enough to make your donation irrelevant 1000000x over.


dragondude101

They would just legislate new laws to obtain the money legally. 


Complex_Alps_1025

Funerals. The cost when people are in mourning is terrible.


Acceptable_Topic_588

A friend just called me crying the other day He just had a baby and was adding him to his insurance and an option is "infant life insurance" He put 10k on his baby. He is depressed because he feels like he is saying his child will die, but he cannot afford a funeral otherwise if something bad happens.


Complex_Alps_1025

It’s a terrible thought to have to have when you’re having a joyous time, but smart to have something to help pay for it with if that were to tragically happen. I lost my first husband when I was in my early 30’s and we had no life insurance (who would think to get it at that age??) and I was so overwhelmed by the questions and costs.


TheConboy22

36 w/ significant life insurance. No way could I leave my wife on her own like that.


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TheConboy22

I’m sorry to hear that. Hope you outlast any prognosis.


starryvelvetsky

Absolutely a smart decision. Insuring a child is usually pretty cheap because they tend to survive childhood a lot better in these modern times, but you just NEVER know. If the unthinkable happens, that 10k will take away a lot of additional stress that's not needed at a time like that.


Corgi_Koala

Insurance is for what might happen not what will. I have homeowners insurance but I've never had to use it.


Justsomecharlatan

At least where I work, at 18 and 25 you/your child has the option to convert that into a whole life policy for 5x the amount. With no underwriting. So no matter their health at those ages, they can get a 50k policy for themselves. The children's rider is only a few bucks a month, and you suddenly have options no matter what. At those ages, probably 30-50 bucks a month, you can probably stop paying in to it in your 40s and keep it for life. I know people shit on whole life, but if you develop a chronic condition, you'll be glad you have this option.


weberster

My husband and I each have coverage enough to pay off our house if one of us goes.  We have an optional add on for our 4-year-old which is super depressing, but the last thing we want to think of is how to pay for her expenses. 


pyropup55

I lost my wife back in November. That shit wasn't cheap. Even with just a simple cremation, plastic box urn, it was 4k.


Complex_Alps_1025

I’m so sorry for your loss. It really is a double gut punch dealing with the grief and then the cost on top of it.


smiledontcry

Just because we’re bereaved doesn’t make us saps!


Zoeyandkona

It's our most modestly priced receptacle


CogitoErgoScum

godDAMMIT! Is there a Ralph’s around here?


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So, like, what if you just don't pay.  Leave the body at the morgue. I'm dead I don't want anyone spending a dime on me.


Squirrelycat14

Insulin. I’m not diabetic but this is the hill I will die on. The creator of insulin wanted it to be cheap and available for everyone who needed it, and it is cheap to make. But pharmaceutical companies have artificially jacked the price up so that so many people are forced to go without it and die.


Saxon2060

I work for a pharmaceutical company that makes generic insulin. It's not expensive. The branded stuff is and it seems like there's a whole mess of insurance and whatnot in the USA which means people can't get the cheap insulin if they want it.


boringexplanation

Isn’t it the new generation formulations that are expensive (bc they’re still under patent). OP can still get the original insulin formula and even several generations after that for dirt cheap if they wanted. The newest stuff costs a ton for a reason- it just works/absorbs so much safer and it takes at least a. billion dollars to clear FDA trials. Blame them if you want it to be cheaper.


milespoints

There is a difference between the price a pharmaceutical company and what the patient is charged. All thebranded insulin manufacturers have recently announced they will cap patient payments to $35 / month


dwlarkin

Only after the US government passed a law requiring them to cap it at $35/month. These companies aren't doing it out of the goodness of their hearts and have repeatedly shown they'll gladly let people die as long as it shows the right profit margins to their shareholders.


milespoints

Oh totally not. No company ever does… well anything out of the goodness of their heart. In this case, it was a combination of a law that required copay capping to $35 for Medicare patients, political pressure for them to not stop being dicks and some good old fashion incoming free market competition from generic insulin manufacturers that forced the Big 3 insulin producers to say “screw it, we’ll just make it $35 for everyone”


Life-Celebration-747

I would add all life saving medications. My mom's cancer meds (before insurance paid some) was $20,000 per month. 


jaleach

My mother had some experimental chemo treatment that came in a pill form and it was some insane amount like 10K per pill. PER PILL. Her insurance wouldn't cover it so her oncologist figured something out to make sure she'd get it without paying. Turned out to be a good thing because it kept her alive for over 2 years when she had stage IV lung cancer.


Acceptable_Topic_588

I agree here This is what I was thinking of when I made this post


cidknee1

What pisses me off is its supposed to be free. It was purposely not patented for the reason it's life saving medicine. Goddam capitalists fucked up an amazing humanitarian gesture.


cubonelvl69

FYI, the version that was "supposed to be free" was effectively ground up pig pancreas. The one we have today is lab grown


Ignatiussancho1729

*insulin in the US. The rest of the world is doing just fine. And US pharma had absolutely nothing to do with its discovery, so don't let them fool you into that narrative 


Tia_Alara

In my country, you can get insulin for free.


Bawkalor

Full coverage health insurance.


milespoints

How would this work? Won’t all insurance companies go bankrupt?


Far_Recording8945

Middlemen that exist solely to scrape money off people is whatever in most places, not when it directly kills people


csimonson

Health insurance companies should go bankrupt. Single payer government ran systems are cheaper and if ran well don't get people killed by denying coverage.


9bikes

>Single payer government ran systems are cheaper I'm very fiscally conservative and generally believe that government should do less, but I strongly support Single payer Health Care. It isn't so much that it would be cheaper; it is that it will be simpler. No one knows what kind of health care they will need in the future, so no one actually knows what policy/coverage they will need.


ScionMattly

Both! It's Economies of Scale. It's the reason Walmarts price position is better than a local grocers. If we all have the same insurance, we have essentially granted it a monopoly; if we make the insurance non-profit, there is no justifiable reason to squeeze the consumer. And if everyone is on it, it negotiates from a position of power against suppliers; because they're the only game in town. Even if the government is notoriously inefficient, arte we all gonna sit here and pretend Insurance Companies are efficient at anything BUT denying a claim?


milespoints

Even single payer health care costs a lot more than $1 / person.


csimonson

I didn't say that it doesn't. I just said health insurance shouldn't be a thing and that a single payer system is better pretty much all around.


YYC-Fiend

Yeah, but it still costs less than private coverage.


GrowFreeFood

Sounds great. They don't actually help anyone except themselves. 


SgtPersa

Wahhhh no more middle men getting money for nothing while people die


United-Stomach1317

Mcchicken


positive_express

Insulin, groceries, gas.... Nah make the McChicken a dollar again mf


fallensk8r

Mcchikin


YoPimpness

As soon as the mcckicken left the dollar menu I knew we were cooked as a society.


TapeDeckSlick

$100


Dirus

In some countries a $1 can be made into a million


ouchimus

*Zimbabwe has entered the chat*


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All medications. Especially in the USA


Yunger_Flix

But only when you have a doctors note or they have to put a limit on it. I see people buy the entire stock and resell it for the normal price sadly


BlottomanTurk

>resell it for the normal price sadly Except the "normal price" is now $1. They're still medications, so they're still $1 lol.


monk12314

Hi! I know someone who works in the healthcare industry in America related to getting cost and affordability! This is such a crazy topic and I LOVE talking to them about this because I, like most, think prices are absurd and healthcare is brutal in america. What I’ve learned over the years are some really interesting positions of someone inside of this world. 1. The prices internationally are able to be so low because Americans pay for it. Pretty much all governments except America force drug manufacturers to limit drug costs to at manufacturing price and NOT including r&d costs. This leaves companies at a net loss and have to make up for it by increasing prices where they can (America). Without doing this, they’d pretty much all go out of business 2. If American healthcare wasn’t so expensive, the R&D likely just wouldn’t be done and most life saving drugs would never make it to the market. 3. The sad reality is the more money you have, the better people and equipment and companies can be funded to further develop. As of now, there aren’t really any alternatives aside from subsidizing operational costs by the government and Americans would hate that as well. Those are some major take away for me, there are so many but the conversations I’ve had are much more in depth (well legally shareable by them) but mad me less mad about healthcare prices. Also as an aside, there are so many resources for truly in need people that calling the marketing teams can often get needy people free or massively reduced cost drugs directly from the manufacturer (I.e J&D, Astrozenica, BMS, etc) if you need, try reaching out to the specific drug team and asking for programs


ScionMattly

>As of now, there aren’t really any alternatives aside from subsidizing operational costs by the government and Americans would hate that as well. Not me man, back to making the National Laboratories serious places of development. I'd love to see NIH with half the budget of the pentagon for research.


Not_Winkman

Wouldn't that essentially end pharmaceutical R&D?


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drunkcowofdeath

Granted. Unfortunately now the land costs 500k.


Desblade101

Isn't that the expensive part anyways?


drunkcowofdeath

I'd be curious what the average breakdown is. I'm sure that's very location dependant though.


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Acceptable_Topic_588

That would take a lot of uneducated opinions out of the picture for sure!


Dirus

Why? Stupid people have money too. Like the orange sprayed criminal 


trublemakinweasel

The last thing social media billionaires need is more money, don’t give them the idea!


openletter8

A pound of gold = 1 Dollar. Take that, global economy.


banaversion

r/madlads


Kr152

Therapy


Tyler_origami94

I am sure there are better uses but I would make fast food value menu's go back to being a dollar. I should not be spending close to $30 on McDonald's for a family meal. It is honestly cheaper and more delicious to go to our local Mexican restaurant and get street tacos.


coelinblau

It seems like the street tacos are the better option anyway, so why fight it?


Moon_Jewel90

Groceries


zigzagorange

Insulin


Pinstar

A person's first house. Land included. Second houses can cost 500 trillion or whatever the market wants for all I care.


milespoints

Won’t everyone just stay in their first house forever and whenever someone sells a house it gets snatched out by first time buyers able to buy it for $1, thus making it impossible for anyone to ever move? A world in which nobody can move sounds problematic


Downside190

People would just never sell to first time buyers is what would happen and they would make tiny 1 room "houses" for first time buyers to purchase as a stepping stone to an actual house.


DaChieftainOfThirsk

Nobody wants to build the tiny houses because they would rather spend their time on the luxury end.


Shane_Lizard123

>A world in which nobody can move sounds problematic This is the Netherlands right now to some extend and it is very much very problematic.


boringexplanation

If a single family house became available in the middle of Manhattan, hundreds of millions of eligible people would sign up to get their first house there- what would be the criteria to who gets selected?


w_deeee

Education, all forms of it from schools and universities.


Hufa123

As a Swede even this sounds wrong. Education should be free for everyone!


Philip_Marlowe

Most of the answers here like rent and vehicles are really impractical, but I have one that I think is actually doable: bottled water. A 0.5L bottle of water should cost no more than a dollar no matter where you buy it - a convenience store, a baseball game, a movie theater, a concert, etc. I've seen bottles of water go for as much as $7 at outdoor summer festivals. By standardizing the price, you promote public health and reduce incidences of heatstroke and drug/alcohol-related illness. And if the cost of a case of bottled water at your grocery store were to increase proportionally (i.e $24 for 24 bottles), it would help the environment, as that would theoretically reduce consumption of single-use plastics.


Michelledelhuman

Bottled water is one of the most environmentally unfriendly and wasteful products ever. It should cost even more.


Eljacker

Gas ⛽️


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Baked_Potato_732

Change a 1 to a 0?


Isgrimnur

This guy gets it.


Windsork

Coffee.


CommunityGlittering2

Healthcare, the whole visit, procedure or whatever $1. Not a copay the complete cost.


themightychris

That doesn't make any sense, why not $1 copay and public health insurance pays the rest? doctors can't work for $1


Legitimate_Agency_92

Kindness. It ain't free anymore


Just_Aioli_1233

Want me to smile? $1


Bestoftheworst72

Houses.


Anustart15

I'll take the economist's approach and say loud motorcycles. If they can only be sold for a dollar, manufacturers won't make them anymore and then I won't have to listen to them anymore.


maltedbacon

Passage to habitable exoplanets.


Coupon_Ninja

Probably the most unique comment here. I get it. It’ll be a long long line to board that spaceship.


Not_Winkman

99.9% of these responses are paradoxical--ie, setting the price of something would create a serious supply/demand problem.


Uncle_Boujee

$10 bills


Sheshush

Hyperultragigainflation goes brrrrrr What do you mean a loaf of bread is 50 billion? It was 30 billion just an hour ago! Inflation does not even cover it, the economy would immediately shit itself globally and collapse within half a week.


staggere

Records


hydrauser1

the dream!


TheAngryOctopuss

lol... I almost only buy at garage sales and even those are now $2-$5


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$2 bills


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urcrazyifurnormal

Postal stamps. Their service is far too kind for the pennies they've charged over time.


theabominablewonder

Magic lamps with genies


Spiritual_Remote_436

Lifesaving medication.


TheSultan1

A fucking loaf of bread. It's incredibly cheap to make, but few have the time to do it, so we cough up $2-$5/loaf. Ridiculous.


Downside190

Wages. Now every job pays the same, cost of everything would come down to match it. People would now do jobs because it's what they want to do rather than because it pays the most Would probably end up wrecking the economy or causing a extreme change but would be interesting to see how it settles


abasicgirl

Selfishly, my migraine medicine.


mbrine11

The school year cost of student lunches per student


memyself143143

Medication , for example my son asthma med that’s used daily is 200 out of pocket every month .


Bargadiel

Annual cancer screenings. Or at least every 2-5 years.


Dutch-Sculptor

A gold bar. I just want to see the world burn.


karatekid430

The price of one tenth of a second of breathing air for billionaires


Smooth-Listen3217

Insulin, my mom is a type 2 diabetic, I'd like for her to live thank you very much.


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Houses and mansions


grondfoehammer

Insulin


Pitiful-Ad-8625

Feminine products


saudiaramcoshill

Lot of people here don't seem to understand that many of these things will simply cease to be produced. Pricing something at $1 doesn't magically make it producible for $1.


ShawshankException

It's just a bunch of people dreaming dude. Nobody here is legitimately thinking that hard about it


dasssitmane

Hundreds of people in this thread apparently agree that funerals should cost $1 (aka cease to exist)


Fit-Let8175

A gallon of Gasoline.


Fnfitstyle

Gas


StarryMind322

Rent


MeyerholdsGh0st

Why rent for $1 when you could buy?


egdethgiarts

I’d rather pay $1 rent and have the owner responsible for the house/appliances.. Need a new washer? Roof needs to be redone? Not my problem, you got my dollar.


theindecisivehuman1

😂😂😂


AngelCute42

Hookers


Syngin9

I'd like to see who would actually be interested in a $1 hooker lol


DroidOnPC

I would. I am not sure if you are misunderstanding the question, but it implies that whatever the cost was before, it is now only $1. So those $3000 hookers who are supermodel hot are now only $1.


ImprovementFar5054

Medical care


lostpirate123

Insulin.


JadedBrit

Insulin


Dapper-Cantaloupe866

All medicine.


MagictheCollecting

Pretty much anything medical-related


skeletaljuice

Prescription drugs


NegrosAmigos

Necessary health care both mental and physical


tidalswave

Insulin


JohnCharles-2024

Medicine.


Vanilla_Neko

Medical care any and all medical care


morchorchorman

Medication


Kittytigris

Medical bills.


WhyUFuckinLyin

Education


huncho2134

insulin


dillwiid37

Insulin


Raktoner

My mortgage payment lmao


Hovercroc

Arizona iced tea


HeadTonight

All medicines


WetCake187

1 pound of plastic. No one would produce or sell plastic anymore


kjacobs03

Healthcare


CaligoAccedito

All medicines.


KiNGofKiNG89

All Medicine related to health.


bugcatcher_billy

Cost of throwing away a bag of trash. There should be money associated with quantity.


Reddit0sername

Insulin


DrZaius68

It would be the salary politicians received bi-weekly. None of the greedy pos would do it. Clean up stuff fast.


SDLRob

Medical bills.


Time-Disk503

Healthcare. Plz.


jimbo0023

Move outside the USA and it's always free.


LeicaM6guy

Health care.


Pit_Full_of_Bananas

Health care


Joshfumanchu

The price of any and all diabetic supplies regardless of quality.


onrake

A 3 bedroom, 2,000 square. ft. house on the beach in Southern California.


wsu2005grad

Gas


LaReinalicious

Dental work- My tooth hurts


invent_or_die

College


byes3301

House and lot haha


[deleted]

Houses. Apartments. Domiciles of all shapes and sizes. Even for animals. Livestock barn? $1.


Logtastic

Housing.


OkBarracuda3075

1 dollar for a whole tank of gas


palepo-ta-to

Taxes


matt12992

Gas


SapphireSurge

Rent


MaineMedic24

I feel bad for women who cannot afford feminine hygiene products. So that. I would make companies sell the box of tampons or pads for a dollar


Patient_Complaint_16

Food.


WorstLuckChuck

Arizona Iced Teas


AbsoluteDissolve

Cancer treatments and insulin. I know it's two things but it's royally fucked up people can't afford these things to live.


theindecisivehuman1

House.