Key Provisions for
- Social Security and Medicare are guaranteed full funding, with high-income earners paying their fair share. Annual actuarial reviews, and built-in funding tools, ensure the programs cannot run out of money.
- Social Security, Medicare, and veterans’ benefits are protected from cuts, along with other essential people-programs
- Taxes on the first $40,000 of earned income are eliminated at the federal level (inflation-adjusted)
- Taxes from $40,001 to $120,000 are permanently capped at 8% (inflation-adjusted)
- The IRS tax code is significantly simplified for individuals and families
- Voting access nationwide is guaranteed to be equal and nondiscriminatory
- Gerrymandering is prohibited
- Elections allow personal contributions but ban corporate, PAC, and union money
- Big money in politics is limited while protecting free expression
- Affirms that expenditure of money is not speech and that political rights belong to people, not corporations
Term Limits ↓
Limits service in the House of Representatives to 12 years (narrow exceptions)
Limits service in the Senate to 18 years (narrow exceptions)
Sets 18-year term limits for Supreme Court Justices (narrow exceptions)
Ethics ↓
- Establishes a binding Supreme Court Code of Ethics with independent enforcement
- Establishes an Independent Office of Public Integrity (IOPI) that reports to the People
- Prohibits insider trading while in office and bans paid lobbying for three years thereafter
- IOPI stops evasive testimony and lies under oath in Congress, with real penalties
- IOPI ensures enforcement if Congress fails to follow ethics rules
- IOPI can bring actions in civil court and refer to the Department of Justice for violations of law
- IOPI is given expedited judicial review for its cases to prevent delay or evasion
- Provides whistleblower protections and rewards
Ends Legislative Dysfunction ↓
Prohibits deliberate government shutdowns and obstruction for political advantage
Creates a clear bipartisan method to bring a single-item bill up for vote in Congress
Mandates recorded up-or-down votes within strict deadlines
Balances the
Federal Budget and
Eliminates Waste ↓
- Taxes income from wealth the same as income from labor. Higher income means higher taxes
- Requires line-item spending in national budget and allows limited line-item presidential vetoes
- Forces Congress to balance the budget using automatic control mechanisms
- Caps salaries at higher levels, but ends pensions and post-service benefits for Congress
- Requires elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse, and consolidation of duplicate programs
- Modernizes federal information technology (IT) systems and eliminates contractor lock-in
- Requires a public transparency dashboard for reporting savings and performance
- And yes, it can be balanced. Historically, a balanced budget has been—and remains—within reach when tax policy, spending commitments, and political incentives are aligned. Persistent deficits arise when those incentives favor narrow interests over broad fiscal responsibility, contributing to long-term debt and inflation
Summary
Article XXVIII restores government of, by, and for the People. It protects Social Security, Medicare, and veterans’ benefits, lowers taxes for working Americans, ends gerrymandering, sets term limits, and cleans up big money in politics. It creates clear constitutional rules, with strong safeguards and independent enforcement, so Washington finally answers to the People — not special interests.