- The Total Wealth Tax system should increase available funds and allow wealth building (See Total Wealth Tax). Recent reports indicate that the percentage of Americans living in poverty has risen again. This plan addresses that issue by removing the tax burden from those who have little or no wealth. We have the choice of either fixing the tax/budget/deficit problem or we can burden our children and grandchildren with a system that we know will eventually collapse.
- Encourage entrepreneurship training.
- Encourage coordination of welfare/unemployment and job training; for example, allow unemployment compensation to continue even if person becomes a full-time student; welfare training programs
- More assistance for partial disability (encourage part-time work, if able)
- Encourage businesses to use cities where office space is inexpensive and rural America where labor is inexpensive (rather than outsourcing abroad). Undertake to discover businesses that do not utilize such areas and fix the problem.
- Review money system; make sure it is secure and has foundation (even though not backed by gold/silver etc.); cut deficit. Consider backing currency with a combination of government real estate and Silver and Gold. There is currently about $750 Billion in circulation. The federal government along with the states (on a per capita basis) would contribute public property to collateralize the currency.
- Review EEOC regulations and procedures to balance fair remedy against expensive, baseless claims.
- Work with Better Business Bureau to develop consumer policies; utilize the agency's experience to develop programs for dispute resolution, consumer education and consumer practices regulations.
- Review trade policies and agreements to make sure that they are serving the American economy. Consider 2% sales/service tax ("Outsourcing Tax") on items produced and services performed abroad. Those funds are designated specifically to fund a re-build of infrastructure and pay down government debt.
- In the 1700s and early 1800s, we were an agriculture based economy; in the late 1800s until the 1970s we were a manufacturing based economy; beginning in the late 1900s we became a technology and service based economy. Undertake an independent study to assess the impact and risks of a technology and service-based economy which has as a large percentage discretionary services; undertake programs to insure long-term productive and secure economy
- Minimum wage - reduction in income tax and social security tax should eliminate need for increase.
- Regulate the sale of stock and bonds to foreign countries. Cap federal debt that can be held by foreign governments.
- No federal aid for private companies and interests.
- Increase the competitive market for various industries - a la'carte cable, phone, utilities and gasoline. We need to re-assess whether de-regulation has created a favorable environment for consumers. The gasoline industry has abused pricing in this information age.
- We need to hold the technology sector accountable for insuring secure, reliable systems.
- Assure satellite protection and back-up systems.
Goals: Opportunity for as many as want it.
Reasons: We tend to put people in boxes/categories. We need to individualize skill development, and reward accordingly. Economy and jobs programs need to utilize our communication and technology advances.
"No nation was ever ruined by trade." -Benjamin Franklin
"I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices."
-Ulysses S. Grant
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprise." -Demosthenes
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." -James Garfield
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." -General George Patton