Talk:WG/Strategies/Ideas/CostOfLiving

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Market economy

user:OccupyReality Today 11:48 am

You want to demand a lower cost of living? This is a market economy, and unless you plan to change that (which would have vanishingly small support), you're not going to get price controls on everything. And the flip side is, businesses need to make money.

I think there is a case to be made in higher education and health care for pushing for lower costs - those are fundamental services that have risen faster than general inflation for 50 years.

Land-value property tax,

user:bdkg Thursday, 8:20 am

any link on this topic

regulation

user:bdkg Wednesday, 3:30 am

To do this we need to loosen regulation for smaller, business start up costs, workplace regulations, and financial assistance, that are scaled for small businesses. At the same time larger enterprises need to have regulations tightened in order to ensure that they act in the public interest and and in the interest of all stake holders

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