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GOTaSMALL1
Utah
Civil asset forfeiture.

，犹他州
民事资产没收。

SheenPSU
，New Hampshire
That shit’s criminal

，新罕布什尔州
那玩意儿是一种犯罪

Wespiratory
Alabama, lifelong
Yep. Legalized highway robbery is all it is.

，阿拉巴马州
是的。那就是所谓的合法的拦路抢劫。

Subvet98
Cleveland (The mistake on the lake)
Yep that has to go

，克利夫兰
是的，这必须得改掉

Kondrias
I know some smaller local people have talked about it but I have not seen any large scale national politicians talking about it. I want the adoption process in the US to be improved. I know good people capable of raising and wanting to adopt a child for whatever number of reasons, but it is cost prohibitive. The cost of adoption in the US can vary but a common average I see, it is around 20,000 (some of the average costs I have seen put it at 70k).
I know good people capable of raising a child that want to adopt but that do not have 20k available just to adopt a child. Imagine how much good that 20k could do for the child in their life. All the things that could provide for them in their life, or imagine that going into a college fund when they are born. How much the kid could benefit from that.
I want reforms to the system to make it easier to adopt and to provide greater credits for the adoption process to make it cheaper for people.

我知道一些小规模的本地群体已经谈论过这个问题，但我还没有看到有任何政治家发起的大规模讨论。我希望美国的收养程序能够得到改善。我认识有能力养育并想收养孩子的好人，无论出于何种原因，但这样做的手续成本太高了。在美国各地收养的成本可能会有所不同，但我看到的一个普遍平均值约为 2万美元（我见过有些地方的平均成本为 7万美元）。
我知道一些有能力抚养孩子的好人想收养孩子，但他们没有2万块钱可以用来交收养孩子的手续。想象一下，这2万块钱本可以为被收养的孩子的生活带来多大的好处。可以在日常生活中给他买多少东西，或者想象一下，当他们出生时，这些钱可以用作大学基金。孩子们可以从中受益多少。
我希望对制度进行改革，使收养更容易，并为收养过程提供更多的信贷，使其对人们来说更便宜。
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DontRunReds
Eh, adoption has been fraught with a lot of coercion and child trafficking over the years. One of the reasons I think we have so much anti-choice legislation and social pressures combined with underfunding social services is to coerce "undesirable" parents to give up children to "good Christian couples."
Adoption, you have to ask, is it for the benefit of the child or for an infertile couple to fulfill a dream. I think it's for the child and needs to be in the child's best interest.
One of the reasons costs are rising is that we've made efforts to shutdown exploitative international adoption.

呃，多年来，收养一直充满了很多胁迫和贩卖儿童的情况。我认为我们有这么多反选择性收养的立法和社会压力，导致相关社会服务资金不足的其中一个原因是存在胁迫"不受欢迎的 "父母把孩子交给"优秀的基督徒夫妇"养的情况。
关于收养，你要问清楚的是这是为了孩子的利益，还是为了不孕不育的夫妇实现一个梦想。我认为是为了孩子，需要符合孩子的最大利益。
费用上涨的原因之一是，我们已经努力去关闭剥削性的国际收养途径。

Kondrias
Okay, but is it in a childs best interest to never be adopted and have a support structure with loving parents? Or for them to just become an adult, have no real clear family and just be on their own?
The whole "good Christian couple" thing kind of falls apart when it becomes unreasonable for good parents to raise kids and there are means besides a cost barrier to ensure that kids are going to a good home. Support those means instead of just creating preventative costs.

好吧，但是永远不要被收养并与慈爱的父母建立支持结构是否符合孩子的最大利益？还是说让他们就这么长大成人，人生中一直没有一个真正清晰的家庭，凡事只能靠自己就比较好？
当一对好的父母想收养一个孩子都变得不合理时，整个"好的基督徒夫妇"的说法就不攻自破了，除了制造成本障碍外，还有一些方法可以确保孩子们进入一个好的家庭。国家应该支持这些手段，而不是仅仅创造预防性的额外费用。

MyDogIsFancy
I'm adopted, and the only reason I was put up for adoption was because my parents could not afford to keep me. And while I adore my adopted parents and they have given me every advantage that a child could wants, have been supportive of me as an adult, sometimes you should just give the money to the parents to keep their child.
I see this a lot with foster care as well. Some kids are just removed because their parents are poor. Their parents can't afford to feed them... So instead the government pay foster parents to watch the kid, instead of helping out the actual parents

我是被收养的，我被送去收养的唯一原因是我的父母没有能力养我。虽然我很崇拜我的养父母，他们给了我一个孩子可能想要得到的一切，成年之后也一直支持我，但政府该做的是怎么让亲生父母有钱让他们有能力留下孩子。
我在寄养家庭中也经常看到这种情况。有些孩子被带走是因为他们的父母很穷。他们的父母没有能力养活他们...所以政府在为养父母收养孩子支出，而不是帮助他们的亲生父母让他们有能力抚养孩子。

MyDogIsFancy
Honestly, I think a lot of the problems would be solved if you didn't let people adopt babies.

说实话，我认为如果你不让人们收养婴儿，很多问题都会得到解决。

Kondrias
I am really curious how so? How would not being able to adopt babies solve food and resource scarcity problems for low income families. Or improve the outcomes for orphaned children?

我真的很好奇，怎么会这样呢？无法收养婴儿将如何解决低收入家庭的食物和资源短缺问题。或者改善孤儿的出现这个结果？

Far_Silver
Indiana
Reducing the costs is one thing, but the red tape itself is there for a reason. Adoptive parents have to be screened pretty intensely. Note that abuse by adoptive parents was much more common before the screening became intense.

，印第安纳
降低成本是一回事，但繁文缛节本身是有原因的。收养的父母必须经过相当严格的筛选。请注意，在进行严格筛选之前，养父母的虐待行为更为普遍。

Kondrias
A thorough effective screening is absolutely necessary and should in no way be compromised. But that cost need not be as high as it is, nor as passed onto the prospective parents as it is. I do not know what the exact right answer is, i would leave that conclusion to people FAR more versed in the subject than I. But I will not accept that our current method is the optimal one possible nor that it cannot be improved greatly to allow more kids to get adopted to good homes and live better, more fullfilling lives with parental figures that care for them and provide for them.

彻底有效的筛查绝对是有必要的，这一点决不应该妥协。但这种成本不需要像现在这样高，也不需要像现在这样转嫁给未来的父母。我不知道解决问题的正确答案是什么，我会把这个问题的结论留给比我更熟悉这个问题的人来回答。但我不会接受我们目前的方法是可能的最佳方法的说法，也不会接受它不能被大大改进，以使更多的孩子被收养到好的家庭，在父母的关心和提供下过上更好、更充实的生活的现实。

texasgigi123
Texas
Lowering the age that retirees can work while collecting social security retirement benefits without it affecting their benefit amount. Right now full retirement age is 67 but you have to wait until you are 70 to not let extra income effect your SS retirement benefits. Today the average retirement check from SS is $1657/month. That’s not enough to live on, even before taxes are taken out. If a 67 year old retiree wants to work at Walmart to supplement their income, why should their benefits be reduced? I think our elderly are poorly taken care of.

，德克萨斯州
降低退休人员在领取社保退休福利时可以工作的年龄，而不影响其福利金额。现在完全退休年龄是67岁，但你必须等到70岁才不会让额外的收入影响你领取的社保退休福利。现在，SS的平均退休金是1657美元/月。这根本不够用来生活的，即使是在扣税之前。如果一个67岁的退休人员想在沃尔玛工作来补充他们的收入，为什么要因此减少他们的福利？我认为我们的老人没有得到很好的照顾。
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DownInFraggleRawk
I agree full-heartedly.

我完全同意你的看法。

CassiusCray
The growing power of the executive branch over the other branches.

行政部门对其他部门的权力越来越大。

BrettEskin
And the growing independence of executive branch departments from elected civilian leadership.

以及行政部门越来越独立于民选的文职领导。

C21H27Cl3N2O3
Louisville, Kentucky
In what ways specifically? The president is still pretty ineffective at getting things done because of blocking in congress and here locally the legislature stripped our governor of his emergency powers and gave them to themselves because they didn’t like his COVID response.

，路易斯维尔，肯塔基州
具体指哪些方面？由于国会的阻挠，总统在做事情方面仍然很不得力，在我们本地，立法机构剥夺了我们州长的紧急权力，并将其交给自己，因为他们不喜欢他对COVID采取的反应。

annizoli
North Carolina
Public education reform. Not universities and the whole student loan debacle, k-12 education is done so poorly the whole thing needs a MASSIVE re-do and the most it ever got talked about was when we all hated Betsy Devos, but even after she was gone nobody seized the opportunity to do anything

，北卡罗来纳州
公共教育改革。我说的不是大学和学生贷款那堆破事，而是我们的K-12（美国从幼儿园到12年级教育）教育做得很差，整个系统需要一个巨大的改革，贝齐·德沃斯在位的时候这件事有着很大的讨论浪潮，因为我们都讨厌她，但在她走之后，却没有人抓住机会来做任何事情。

potatoboat
This is incredibly important. We soon won’t have teachers anymore and if we do they likely won’t be passionate about their jobs the way teachers are being treated now. I haven’t been on earth very long but I’m working with more and more younger folks and they have literally 0 critical thinking skills.

这一点非常重要。我们很快就要没有老师了，就算我们还有，他们很可能也不会像现的老师那样对自己的工作充满热情了。我在地球上的时间不算长，但我和越多的年轻人一起工作，就越发现他们的批判性思维能力简直是零。

TheManWhoWasNotShort
Chicago 》Colorado
Legal representation for indigent people in civil cases.
We have public defenders for criminal cases, but many of our rights are protected by civil remedies, not just criminal prosecutions. It's a huge barrier to access not being able to afford an attorney.

，芝加哥 》科罗拉多
在民事案件中为穷人提供法律代理。
在刑事案件中我们有公设的辩护人，但我们的许多权利受到的是民事法的保护，而不仅仅是刑事。在民事案件中没有能力聘请律师是一个巨大的障碍。

The_Wheel_Turns
A lot of states have really harsh standards for qualifying for a PD in criminal cases too. Like, nuke your savings and go into a year plus of hardship to try to get off because you can technically afford counsel. So if you're innocent, you've already been heavily punished because you had to pony up.
In my county, 52% of households live paycheck to paycheck, but only 14% are poverty level. Those 14% are really the ones who get PDs.

很多州对刑事案件中提供公立辩护律师的资格也有着非常苛刻的标准。比如说，首先要把你的积蓄都花掉，让你进入一年或者更长时间的困难期，因为只要倾家荡产，你在技术上还是可以负担得起律师的。因此，即使你是无辜的，你也因为你不得不付出的代价而已经受到了严重的惩罚。
在我所在的州，52%的家庭要靠寅吃卯粮过活，但只有14%的家庭处于贫困水平。这14%的人是才是真正能得到公立辩护律师的人。

I_POO_ON_GOATS
Escaped Topeka for Omaha
Here's one: how are we supposed to address the ever-increasing load on the power grid that things like electric cars are going to inevitably cause as we move away from fossil fuels?
Even if we get past our irrational fear of nuclear, we need to upxe our infrastructure to account for the increased usage.
Edit: another one that no one would dare to campaign on, why cant property tax be based on the value of the property at time of purchase? And then the money gained from sale can be taxed, like we do with literally any other asset?

，逃离托皮卡前往奥马哈
这里有一个问题：随着我们远离化石燃料，像电动汽车这样的东西将不可避免地对电网造成越来越大的负荷，我们应该如何解决这个问题？
即使我们克服了对核电的非理性恐惧，我们也需要更新我们的基础设施，以考虑到增加的使用量。
编辑：另一个没有人敢于在竞选时提出的问题：为什么房产税不能基于购买时的房产价值？然后出售所得的钱可以被征税，就像我们对其他资产所做的那样？

johntheflamer
I work with companies in the energy sector that maintain and operate the power grid: they’re actively working on this problem.
The biggest issue has to do with energy storage. It used to be that if you needed more energy in the short term, a power plant could burn more coal. You can’t just “turn up” the production on a solar farm or a wind farm because they’re constrained by the weather. So the question becomes: how do we store energy produced when there is excess so that we have it when there is a shortage? Small scale storage (like a Tesla power wall for your house and solar panels) exists, but on the industrial scale there’s really no good solution yet. It’s actively being worked on, but we aren’t there yet.
The government needs to step in to invest in further research as well as mandate a national power grid. Right now we effectively have lots of smaller, regional power grids and this is a highly flawed approach (ex. Texas the other year when they had snow storms and their power grid failed)

我与能源部门维护和运营电网的公司合作过：他们正在积极解决这个问题。
最大的问题与储能有关。过去，如果你在短期内需要更多的能源，发电厂可以燃烧更多的煤。但现在你没办法去"提高"太阳能农场或风力农场的产量，因为它们受到天气的限制。因此，问题变成了：我们如何在能源过剩时储存生产的能源，以便在能源短缺时使用它？小规模的存储（如为你的房子安装特斯拉电源墙或者太阳能电池板）是存在的，但在工业规模上，确实还没有好的解决方案。它正在被积极研究，但我们还没有到那一步。
政府需要介入，投资于进一步的研究，并授权建立国家电网。现在，我们实际上有很多较小的、区域性的电网，这是一个非常有缺陷的方法（例如，前几年德克萨斯州暴风雪侵袭，他们的电网的运作悲惨失败了）。

shnu
Connecticut
How feasible is pumped hydro? E.g. pump water uphill off peak load and let it run downhill through a turbine on peak load
I heard about it on Planet Money a few years ago in I think one of the Appalachian states and I’m wondering if it’ll be adopted in other states with the topography to support it?

，康涅狄格州
抽水蓄能的可行性如何？例如，在非高峰负荷时将水抽上山，在高峰负荷时让其通过涡轮机下山运行。
我几年前在Planet Money上听说过，好像是在阿巴拉契亚州的一个州，我想知道它是否会在其他有地形支持的州被采用？

Perdendosi
owa>Missouri>Minnesota>Texas>Utah
Edit: another one that no one would dare to campaign on, why cant property tax be based on the value of the property
at time of purchase?
And then the money gained from sale can be taxed, like we do with literally any other asset?
Because in the U.S. property taxes usually go to localities, and capital gains taxes usually go to the federal government.
Localities need a consistent and predicable income stream because their sources of income are much narrower. What you're proposing would cause localities all sorts of budget planning nightmares, because they can't control when houses sell. And property taxes based on the purchase price means that localities' income streams would diminish every year, and they wouldn't have a good way to boost that stream without increasing other taxes.

，奥瓦通纳>密苏里>明尼苏达>德克萨斯>犹他州
“编辑：另一个没有人敢于在竞选时提出的问题：为什么房产税不能基于购买时的房产价值？然后出售所得的钱可以被征税，就像我们对其他资产所做的那样？”
因为在美国，房产税通常归地方所有，而资本利得税通常归联邦政府所有。
地方政府需要一个稳定和可预测的收入流，因为他们的收入来源要窄得多。你的建议会给地方带来各种预算规划的噩梦，因为他们无法控制房屋何时出售。而基于购买价格的财产税意味着地方的收入来源每年都会减少，他们没有一个好办法在不增加其他税收的情况下提高收入来源。
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cjt09
Washington D.C.
Here's one: how are we supposed to address the ever-increasing load on the power grid that things like electric cars are going to inevitably cause as we move away from fossil fuels?
A major part of the bipartisan infrastructure plan that was passed last year actually directly addresses upgrading the power grid to handle increased loads from electric vehicles.
another one that no one would dare to campaign on, why cant property tax be based on the value of the property at time of purchase?
This is essentially how it works in California and it's something of a disaster. A lot of people in California can't afford to move, even to a home that's both cheaper and superior to their current home, because it would result in a giant increase to their property tax.

，华盛顿特区
“这里有一个问题：随着我们远离化石燃料，像电动汽车这样的东西将不可避免地对电网造成越来越大的负荷，我们应该如何解决这个问题？”
去年通过的两党基础设施计划的一个主要部分实际上直接涉及升级电网以处理来自电动汽车的增加的负荷。
“另一个没有人敢于在竞选时提出的问题：为什么房产税不能基于购买时的房产价值？”
这基本上是加利福尼亚州的运行方式，这是一场灾难。加利福尼亚州的很多人都搬不起家，即使是搬到比他们现在住的更便宜、更优越的房子，因为这将导致他们的房产税大幅增加。

Meattyloaf
SWVA -> WKY
Locally its crime and infrastructure. I live in a town of 32,000 since I moved here in late 2018 we've had over 20 murders. All but one were shooting related. We've had 13 of those murders in the past 14 months. 2 of which have happened in the past couple of weeks. An alarming amount of those were random. Next up is infrastructure. The town loves to pump money into the more affluent side of town but barely puts any into the more minority dominate parts. I shouldn't be dodging craters on my way to work. Both of these I've contacted the town council about and got crickets. As for the state level the economy, make people want to invest in Kentucky. A long shot would be the government dealing with all the corruption within. I guess I hope Kentucky passes the bill that would make animal torture a felony. I hate that I seen someone intentionally run over a dog and get away with it. As for national there are a lot of people at risk of losing or getting barriers placed in front of their rights. More should be done to secure them and to prevent it from happening.

南弗吉尼亚州 -> 俄克拉荷马州
本地的犯罪和基础设施。我住在一个有着32000人的小镇，自从我在2018年底搬到这里，我们这里已经发生了超过20起谋杀案。除了一个，其他都是与枪击有关的。在过去的14个月中，我们这里有13起谋杀案。其中2起发生在过去几周。其中有令人震惊的案件数量是随机作案。接下来是基础设施。镇上的人喜欢把钱投入到镇上较富裕的地方，但几乎没有把钱投入到少数民族占多数的地方。我不应该在上班的路上还得各种闪避路上的弹坑。这两件事我都和镇政府联系过，但得到的答复都是踢皮球。至于国家层面的经济，我希望政府能做到让人们愿意在肯塔基州投资。长期的愿景是政府处理掉所有内部的腐败问题。我还希望肯塔基州能通过法案，将虐待动物定为重罪。我讨厌看到有人故意去碾压一只狗，而且还能逃脱惩罚。至于国家，有很多人有可能失去他们的权利或在他们的权利面前被设置了障碍。政府应该做更多的工作来确保他们的权利，并防止侵权的发生。

DoctorWatchamacallit
This is actually a big priority right now in space policy and space technology circles, but almost *never* gets mentioned in the political sphere: Space weather.
We came dangerously close in 2012 to a Carrington Class solar storm hitting the earth which would have caused catastrophic damage to our electrical system and satellite grid, which affects everything from television broadcast to US Naval communications, and yet while the issue is important enough that FEMA, the Department of Defense, NOAA, NASA, the US Geological Survey, and other agencies are concerned about it and have programs running to research the problem, politicians seem unlikely to care much about it, or if they do, almost never talk about it publicly.
Heck, it's enough of a problem that a solar storm recently downed 40 SpaceX satellites two weeks ago, and yet pretty much nobody in elected office really talks about it.

我想提的是现在太空政策和太空技术界的一个重要优先事项，但在政治领域*几乎*从未被提及过的：太空天气。
我们在2012年曾危险地接近卡林顿级太阳风暴袭击地球，这将对我们的电力系统和卫星网络造成灾难性的破坏，也影响了从电视广播到美国海军通信的一切，然而，尽管这个问题足够重要，以至于联邦紧急事务管理局、国防部、国家海洋局、美国航空航天局、美国地质调查局和其他机构都在关注它，并有研究这个问题的项目，但政治家似乎不太可能关心它，或者即使他们关心，也几乎从未公开谈论过它。
唉，这是一个非常严重的问题，两周前的太阳风暴使40颗SpaceX卫星坠落，但几乎没有选举人在认真谈论这个问题。

BrettEskin
Yeah hardening critical infrastructure against electromagnetic events should be a matter of national security. There could be catastrophic economic impacts from an event even close to the carrington event

是的，加强关键基础设施对电磁事件的防护应该是一个国家安全问题。即使是接近卡林顿事件的事件，也会产生灾难性的经济影响。
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kookbeard
Housing.
I would argue the recent housing market price explosion is the single biggest issue affecting the most people in America. And it's barely discussed in the media or by politicians.
To me the "American Dream" is the ability for a middle class/working class person to buy/own a house. For anyone 40ish or younger this is increasing becoming unattainable in most markets in America.
The America Dream is dying and it get little to no coverage

住房。
我认为最近的住房市场价格爆炸是影响美国大多数人的一个最大问题。而媒体和政治家几乎没有讨论这个问题。
对我来说，"美国梦"是一个中产阶级/工薪阶层能够购买/拥有房子的能力。对于40岁左右或更年轻的人来说，在美国的大多数市场上，这一点正变得越来越难以实现。
美国梦正在消亡，而它几乎没有得到任何报道。

AnthropomorphicBees
Housing market price increases for the most part only influence renters and people in the market for a home (especially first time homeowners). People who already own homes enjoy the rapid appreciation of their assets.
This is why it's not a terribly salient issue in America. Too many people "have theirs" and the only solution to the housing crisis is actively working on making the homes of those people who have theirs less valuable.

住房市场的价格上涨在大多数情况下只影响租房者和在市场上买房的人（尤其是首次买房的人）。已经拥有房屋的人享受着他们资产的快速增值。
这就是为什么在美国这不是一个非常突出的问题。太多的人"有自己的（房子）"，而解决住房危机的唯一办法是积极努力使那些拥有自己房子的人的房子变得不那么值钱。

paulwhite959
Texas and Colorado
Yep. Rent in my area's gone up by north of 15% this year, and over 30% in the last three years
There's a lot of talk about stagnant wages vs rising cost, but a lot of those rising cost have a lot to do with our housing policy and addressing that is nearly as important (or maybe as important) as pushing for increased wages

是的。我所在地区的房租今年上涨了15%，在过去三年里上涨了30%以上。
公众有过很多关于工资停滞与成本上升的讨论，但很多成本的上升与我们的住房政策有着很大的关系，解决这个问题几乎与推动增加工资一样重要（或可能同样重要）。

twillardswillard
Mandate the legalization of cannabis for recreational use nation wide . That’s what I want

强制在全国范围内将用于娱乐用途的大麻合法化。这就是我想要的。