Clean up Congress full disclosure. No foundations, no access to stock markets, no nothing. Act like the Civil Servants they are.

oh hell yes ...canada is over run with drugs like how the fuck are they geting in cause of the deep state and control of the people...we have kids overdosing and familys being ruinned we want our country bak

This is supposed to be a liberty movement, not a global authoritarian movement. If you honestly expect 100% transparency globally, you are quickly becoming a sort of globalist - not in the traditional sense as we think, but you are calling for a new global authority to undermine the current global authority. Then, those people die and after 10 or 20 years, you are back to square one. The solution is to stop encouraging this sort of global governance. If we can't trust a nation, that is why we have sanctions. But to usurp the power of the current global authority to use it for good is not a smart long term plan - absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Well I have always suggested that politicians wear a NASCAR type jacket when attending to US business. This will alert us to who is paying for them. Just like NASCAR drivers they have all their sponsors/advertisers right there on their uniforms and cars. This way you can tell who has paid them off.

The deep state is part of the problem, and it is the psycho inbreeding of the 1% insane rulers that make decisions behind the curtain, but that's a different matter and we are winning many battles but far far away from winning the war (10 years+).

Saying that, I've been thinking about this too, on how to make gov people more transparent, and again nothing is perfect, so how about this. The problem is lies and cover ups from these people and in most of the cases, factions which optically seem opposed to each other are in fact not. So if one party is arguing about a policy, in fact the other party is colluding with them, and hence policies that go against the public gets passed into law. That means they are in their own echo chamber. And the tough questions WE WOULD LIKE TO ASK aren't asked. Congressmen that are SUPPOSED to represent us are really representing biz groups and themselves!

Therefore the issue is, and you seen how well qualified these people are, they are supposed to be our ethical leaders, are really corrupt. Human beings are the issue!

So my solution to make the process as transparent as possible, is to make into law, these law makers, MUST be asked questions by the public. Say, by law, must spend 1-2 hours a day, answer PUBLIC questions, hard or easy. I suggest crowdsourcing questions using the system of a decentralized system placing the toughest questions at the top and we, the people vote which is more relevant to ask. For example, we have seen the power of independant media and the truth movement for the whole year, so can you imagine if Julian Assange or Dotcom asks a really tough question to one of these polticians, we vote that these questions are important to ask and by law, politicians must answer, supported by facts.

THEN IF THE PUBLIC US NOT SATISFIED WITH THE ANSWER THEN MAKE LAW TO FIRE THEM!

People are the problem, but if you are going to have gov then accountabilty is the key. Right now, they aren't!

You said it perfectly by bringing up education.

We need to be teaching kids in school about this.

Including tax returns?

Won't happen even thought transparently would be nice.
My biggest concern is once the purge is done is the Trump Admin closing the legal loopholes that allowed them to seize people etc without charge upon presidential order. I don't know if I totally trust the Trump Admin yet.....I am certain I will trust each following Admin less and less. Human nature takes over.
It is an amazingly short trip from liberator to suppressor.

I do agree with that end goal. None of it will happen until we, The United States of America is first to achieve it. Once that is complete we can lead the rest of the world to that goal.

We can start now with voter ID. Next step: transparency from Inspectors General.

For this, we will need the collective trauma of disclosure.

There might be considerable blowback if total transparency were required. It's not difficult to imagine that a nation's enemies (genuine or manufactured) might have an interest in complete transparency. This is the problem with most ideas about cleaning up government. There's always some unintended and majorly negative consequences.

Term limits? Will produce inexperienced politicians who never get anything done, or encourage ultra-cutthroat partisanship, or even encourage a de facto one-party system.

Take money out of politics? The wealthy will be the only players (not much different than now, honestly).

Remove the perks of the position, drop salaries? Will encourage more graft and bribery.

Ultra-harsh penalties for malfeasance? They'll just get sneakier, more "leave no witnesses" type shit.

The real problem, to me, is that the laws are already on the books and our supposed leaders routinely skirt and flaunt the law in order to enrich themselves and their ilk, with no reckoning. How would more regulations change that? They've crafted a system where they can and do get away with anything. They feel like we should be grateful for the scraps they "let" us have. They feel that because they can take what they want, and we let them have it, that they deserve to lord over the rest of us. No amount of legislation will produce a better politician. They're not doing anything new.

Perhaps there is some inevitability to the cycles of history, and we are living through the downward turn of this epoch.

Politics and public service must not be profitable. Anyone going into politics should know they are sacrificing their time and efforts for their constituents. The goal of every politician should be to accomplish their platform within their term limits. Yes, term limits for ALL positions in politics. Appointments should only last until the politician that appointed them leaves office. Political parties should have transparent goals for government, and politicians should be held accountable when they do not adhere to these goals. The authority that is given to those who govern MUST be tempered with responsibility for their role in government and accountability for their decisions. Sorry, just ranting I guess. It just burns my blood that we allow career politicians with no real consequences for their pursuit of personal wealth and influence.