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<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>
<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>
[[http://goo.gl/yOra43 !!! FINAL LIST OF OBJECTIVES posted to NATGAT 2013 can be found HERE!!!]]


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It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.
It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.
We've moved some items to:
− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".
− [[Brainstorm Bank]]  for raw ideas that need flushing out
 
- [[Second Wave]] the next phase


=== I. Enviro ===
=== I. Enviro ===
==== A. Land ====
==== A. Land ====
* establish a strong "commons"/local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF, PL, BW
* amend constitution to declare right to clean water/air - shelter as a right
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar) BW
* declare rooftops "commons" (gardens, wind turbines, solar).
* Offer tax credits to sustainable farms that give away food BW
* schools to teach holistic thinking
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* recognize and remediate environmental racism--predominance of incinerators in black-brown neighborhoods
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income)  
* mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or wildlands.  
* Offer community and individual "tax" of less bureaucratic  form of
* public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food
encouraging local gardens and food sharing. public space food swaps. etc. BW
* Local food production, community gardens, permaculture agriculture - worker self directed organic agriculture coops on the model of Mondragon in Spain
 
* establish more community garden land
==== B. Food ====
* offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* HIGH TAXES on food production that is NOT ORGANIC
* lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers at a rate pegged to the cost of food
* utilize planning models that favor high density cities, land conservation and discourage sprawl.
* institute development policies that favor high density cities and REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income)  


What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food.  It is a food supply which follows humane practices.  All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups.  This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.


==== B. Food ====
What: Nourishment end hunger, food supply that is humane and natural' access to real nourishing, non-chemical, non-GMO food healthier diets and lifestyles -affordable healthy food
How:  
How:  
* tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food
* replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a basic income guarantee
* require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets
* tie the salaries of public officials inversely to the price of a grocery basket of sustainable food
* require that food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be proven safe before being allowed on the market
* offer tax credits to ONLY to organic food producers/providers, not chemical-based farmers
* HIGH TAXES on food production that is NOT ORGANIC
* offer tax credits to ONLY to organic food producers/providers, not chemical-based farmers
* HIGH TAXES on food production that is NOT ORGANIC
* free school lunches - no junk food in schools
* no for-profit packaged food in schools
* require farms to be at least 50% self sustaining with regards to seed, animal, feed and fertilizer production


==== C. Water ====
* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc) BW
How:  
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]]  TF BW
* amend the constitution to declare that clean air and water is a right
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* peg the value of currency to the number of fish in the sea
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Easy access to fresh produce and nutritious food in poor communities
* End all subsidies in the Farm Bill to corporate farms and processed food companies; add subsidies, and increase those on the books, for organic farms. Incentivize wide variety of crops not including corn and soybeans BW


==== D. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
by Restoring Inalienable Rights to Individuals/Environment
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC PL BW
* Amend the constitution to declare the right to basic healthcare, basic income, basic shelter healthy food, clean air/water'''
* Amend the corporate charter to subordinate responsibility to shareholders to responsibility to prevent harm to people, wildlife and the environment.
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals and the environment'''
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]] BW TF
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF PL BW
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF PL
* Extend Public Education to College AC PL BW
* Government incentives for manufacturers to compete with Germany rather than China. Competing with Germany's higher quality products -- as opposed to China's cheaper products -- offers higher paying jobs at home. It also encourages innovation to make high quality even higher and also cheaper; as opposed to encouraging crap to be made crappier and cheaper. BW


=== II. Economy ===
=== II. Economy ===
what: a economic system that like an ecosystem is homeostatic, self-regulating and wastes nothing, fairness and equality for all beings (including ecosystems, resources) banks and corporations required to act responsibly, answering to many, not few radicalized labor unions international corporate accountability fair trade and fair working conditions
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions.  This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions.  This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few.  Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly.  We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]
 


==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
what: a tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards thrift and environmentalism and taxes at a relatively higher rate activities that are harmful and not life-affirming.
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism.  This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.
* Zero-Sum Budget the Tax Code''' [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]]
 
* Flat Tax''' (no deductions) <br>
How:
* High Tax on "money-on-money" transactions/income <br>
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, [[Basic Income Guarantee]]: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC [http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/articles/miron-nationalaffairs-1-5-11.pdf Cato Insitute Report]
* Tax companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards''' <br>
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Tax "resource use" NOT income
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Tax on revenues/expenses, not on profit. too easy to cheat - minimal income: everyone gets a check
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period.
* Give economic/tax incentives to local producers TF PL
* Tie the tax brackets to the rental cost of a square foot of land by county, the lower the rents, the lower the taxes.
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF
* Carbon Tax.


==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Dodd-Frank (get it done!  been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!)
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF PL
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people)
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Declare a Jubilee Year every 49 years.  
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF PL
* Create state-owned banks for each of the state where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.  
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system  Bretton woods system]]TF
* Give control of commons to small municipalities
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Bring back Glass-Stegall
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* give economic/tax incentives to locale producers
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Abolish corporate personhood
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.  
* Wealth Redistribution: Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.  
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.
* Thirty hour work week for all government employees.
* Corporations that register outside the US are not American companies PL
* Commerce Calming: prohibition on commerce Friday thru Sunday.  
* Measure the Gross National Happiness instead of the Gross National Product.
* Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php


=== III. Freedom of Information ===
=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====
==== A. free and open communications ====
* all airwaves publicly owned - in the meantime, require all licensed broadcasters to allow free primetime spots to candidates that make it to the ballot.
* end to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information - * have a certain amount of tax (by REVENUE, not profit, which is too easy to cheat) go straight to education, so production drives education. so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP.
* extend public education through college
* certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime. - certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public.
==== B. real education, free and equal, democratized' ====
* have a certain amount of tax (by REVENUE, not profit, which is too easy to cheat) go straight to education, so production drives education
==== C. universal access to data ====
* keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.
==== D. what: truth in journalism/illegal to lie ====
* big fines -prison terms for journalist who lie & loss of right to publish


=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY/POLITICAL ===
* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot. PL
==== A. What: peace, nonviolence, no war or death machines, no military, world peace' ====
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP --  OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* choose a date where no arms will be built in factories. after that date, make it illegal for any guns to exist
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years PL
* pay owners of arms factories to stop producing
* Extend public education through college PL
* end tax deducation for lobbying expenses for military contractors
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* declare that defense is defined as "only on US shores"
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* US out of the Middle East
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF
==== B. 'What: no need for violent conflict or guns' ====
* replace current military model with hand to hand combat, only
* build schools in every village
* repeal the Second Amendment -register all guns
==== C. no global us vs them ====
nonviolence' friendship, rather than strangership, as the default relationship among people mutual respect between cultures or trading nations
* nonviolent interpersonal and international conflict resolution education
* declare indigenous rights
* balance the global labor transition with a global basic income guarantee


=== IV. Global ===
==== B. Universal access to data ====
==== A. What: The Right To A Dignified Life ====  
A world where basic needs are met, all cultures respected equally, people feel empowered, free, and unafraid 'a strong sense of community safety for everyone from domestic violence and fear 'all human life valued equally mutually beneficial relationship between humans, the earth, and its inhabitants acting with consideration for the community, world, and everything -more humanity, compassion, kindness, and selflessness


How
* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.
* extensive mandatory community service for white color criminals
 
* establish participatory budgeting of tax dollars
 
* require people shown to engage in domestic violence, to volunteer in a homeless shelter
==== C. Journalism ====
* all decisions considered for seven generations in the future
 
* amend the constitution to require such - balance sheet policy,  
What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media  NEEDS WORK - truth has to be defined in terms or ethics/law
* require all policies to be accounted for in the liability part of a balance sheet
 
* "social obligation accounting" -more humanity, compassion, kindness, and selflessness
How:  Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting
* no profit in prisons
 
=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====
 
* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home 
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons


==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====
==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====
What: mental and physical healthcare that emphasizes preventative and alternative measures full control of our own bodies, including shared ownership of the means of preventative healthcare, no compassion for profit.


How:  
How:  
* nationalize the US healthcare system  
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF AC PL BW
* amend the constitution to declare healthcare a right
* Deploy national healthcare system
* deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* end fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs  
* stop clinicians salaries when patient get sick, start paying them again when their patient recovers
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* alternative medical licensing/professional societies, use at your own risk
* Drug treatment
* health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs  
* programs to teach people how to take care of themselves and others, "caring cooperatives"
* make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
 
==== C. FREEDOM ====
What: freedom to live anywhere: no borders, no nations, freedom of knowledge
* Declare oneself a citizen of the world.
* Eliminate borders


=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====
How: -
 
* amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood
How:  
* amend the constitution to declare that money is not speech
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* limit campaign donations to $50 per person and only in-district donations
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF AC PL
* full public financing of all elections
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF AC PL
* absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* end two-party system
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President)
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
* join your local Green Party
* re-districting by non-partisan groups PL
* abolish the electoral college
* Minimun 5-year revolving door from legislative to lobbying, including congressional staffers PL
* End filibuster, pocket veto and other obstructionist procedures PL
* Term limits for Supreme Court justices. Lifetime tenure was instituted when life-expectancy was shorter and cultural shifts were far less frequent. Generation based cultural biases of justices increasingly raise the risk of reactionary decisions. PL
* Corporate lobby access to legislators must not exceed that of local issue-oriented group. PL
* Monet out of politics BW


==== B. Goal:local community control ====
==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:  
How:  
* declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)


==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====  
==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====  
What: a democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity)  
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).


How:
How:
* crowd source/vote on all public policy decisions/give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision via the internet.
* online voting
* voting days are holidays
* a just and fair legal system
* all financials downloadable in Excel format
==== D. CAMPAIGN REFORM ====
how:
* Publicly funded elections
* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Popular vote decides presidency.
== OLD STUFF LEFT OVER FROM OUR ORIGINAL CUT AT THE LIST ==
=== ELECTORAL & CAMPAIGN REFORM ===
* '''Publically funded elections'''
* '''Free Press / Media for Candidates''' Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* '''Proportional Representation & Instant Run Off Voting'''
* '''Abolish the electoral college''' (popular vote for President wins)


=== MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ===
* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* '''Dodd-Frank''' (get it done!  been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!)
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* '''End the Fed''' (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people)
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts
* Consensu-based Democracy BW


==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====


Not sure where this goes:<br>
* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system
 
'''- Give racial minorities first use rights to wide ranging commons that encompass air, open land, housing and water''' <br>
<br>
<br>


== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
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We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?
We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?
Refer to President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 State of the Union Address wherein he advocated a second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. Search FDR 1944 State of the Union.




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Latest revision as of 23:11, 20 August 2013

This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.

[!!! FINAL LIST OF OBJECTIVES posted to NATGAT 2013 can be found HERE!!!]

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [Common Items] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− Brainstorm Bank for raw ideas that need flushing out

- Second Wave the next phase

I. Enviro

A. Land

  • Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies] TF, PL, BW
  • Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar) BW
  • Offer tax credits to sustainable farms that give away food BW
  • Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
  • Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income)
  • Offer community and individual "tax" of less bureaucratic form of

encouraging local gardens and food sharing. public space food swaps. etc. BW

B. Food

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

  • Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc) BW
  • Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [basic income guarantee] TF BW
  • Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
  • Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
  • Easy access to fresh produce and nutritious food in poor communities
  • End all subsidies in the Farm Bill to corporate farms and processed food companies; add subsidies, and increase those on the books, for organic farms. Incentivize wide variety of crops not including corn and soybeans BW

C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS"

  • Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [Corporate Rights Reading Materials] TF AC PL BW
  • Amend the corporate charter to subordinate responsibility to shareholders to responsibility to prevent harm to people, wildlife and the environment.
  • Establish a strong "commons", to include the following Commons Items BW TF
  • Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
  • Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions TF PL BW
  • President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF PL
  • Extend Public Education to College AC PL BW
  • Government incentives for manufacturers to compete with Germany rather than China. Competing with Germany's higher quality products -- as opposed to China's cheaper products -- offers higher paying jobs at home. It also encourages innovation to make high quality even higher and also cheaper; as opposed to encouraging crap to be made crappier and cheaper. BW

II. Economy

What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions


A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN

What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:

  • Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC Cato Insitute Report
  • Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
  • Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [See Discussion] AC
  • Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
  • Give economic/tax incentives to local producers TF PL
  • Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM

  • Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF PL
  • End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
  • Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF PL
  • Reinstitution of the [Bretton woods system]TF
  • Abolish corporate rights End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
  • Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
  • Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
  • Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
  • Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.
  • Corporations that register outside the US are not American companies PL

III. Freedom of Information

A. free and open communications

  • All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot. PL
  • End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
  • Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years PL
  • Extend public education through college PL
  • Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
  • Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
  • Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

B. Universal access to data

  • Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.


C. Journalism

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media NEEDS WORK - truth has to be defined in terms or ethics/law

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY

A. What: Peace, nonviolence

  • We support our troops
  • We support bringing our troops home
  • We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.

(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)

  • Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
  • We support ending private prisons

B. Free Universal Healthcare

How:

  • Nationalize the US healthcare system TF AC PL BW
  • Deploy national healthcare system
  • End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
  • Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
  • Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
  • Drug treatment

V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change

A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics

How:

  • Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
  • Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF AC PL
  • Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF AC PL
  • Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
  • Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
  • End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
  • re-districting by non-partisan groups PL
  • Minimun 5-year revolving door from legislative to lobbying, including congressional staffers PL
  • End filibuster, pocket veto and other obstructionist procedures PL
  • Term limits for Supreme Court justices. Lifetime tenure was instituted when life-expectancy was shorter and cultural shifts were far less frequent. Generation based cultural biases of justices increasingly raise the risk of reactionary decisions. PL
  • Corporate lobby access to legislators must not exceed that of local issue-oriented group. PL
  • Monet out of politics BW

B. Goal:local community control

How:

  • Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

C. Goal: consensus based democracy

What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

  • Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
  • Crowd source public policy decisions
  • Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
  • Voting days are holidays
  • All public financials downloadable in Excel format
  • We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts
  • Consensu-based Democracy BW

E. Legal System, just and fair

  • Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES

That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

  • Global Peace


We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?



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