Dario Foss

Should voting be mandatory in the United States?

North Korea has mandatory voting. Turnout is 99.9 percent every time and the leader wins with 100 percent of the vote. I'm obviously not saying the US would become North Korea. I'm saying turnout, by itself, proves nothing about legitimacy. A system can have perfect participation and zero democracy. If the goal is a government people trust, the lever is giving them candidates and institutions worth believing in.

Should college athletes be employees of their universities?

Forget salaries for a second. The real prize in the Dartmouth case is collective bargaining. A players' union could negotiate caps on practice hours, guaranteed multi-year scholarships, real health insurance, and a share of media revenue, all at the bargaining table instead of begging the NCAA. That's how every other American industry handles the power imbalance between labor and management. The [NLRB](https://www.nlrb.gov/) ruling opened that door. Coaches have agents negotiating their contracts. Athletic directors have lawyers. Players have compliance officers telling them what they can't do. A union fixes the asymmetry, and employment status is the key that unlocks it.

Should AI-generated films be eligible for major awards like the Oscars?

I am in film school with $40,000 in debt and a laptop, and tools like [Runway](https://runwayml.com/) and OpenAI's Sora are the first thing that has ever made me feel like I could compete with a studio. A period street scene that would cost a major production hundreds of thousands can now be prototyped by a kid in a dorm room, which means the next great director might not need a trust fund or a studio deal. Awards eligibility matters here because recognition is the currency that turns an unknown into a working filmmaker: festivals and prizes are how outsiders get meetings. If the Oscars wall off AI-assisted work, they are not defending craft, they are defending the budgets that already win everything. Let the kid with the laptop enter the race.

The 83% rearrest figure is the strongest point made on this page. I support restoration, but doing it automatically on release day ignores what we know about the first years after prison. Finish parole, stay clean for a defined period, then the ballot is waiting. That is a second chance with evidence.

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The 3.4% number is wealth growth divided by taxes paid, which is not a tax rate by any definition the code uses. Nobody's rate is measured that way, including yours. If we are going to rewrite the tax code, let us at least be honest about the math we are using.

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