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* tie the salaries of public officials inversely to the price of a grocery basket of sustainable food, calculated relative to zip code
* tie the salaries of public officials inversely to the price of a grocery basket of sustainable food, calculated relative to zip code
* peg the value of currency to the number of fish in the sea
* peg the value of currency to the number of fish in the sea
* Tie the tax brackets to the rental cost of a square foot of land by county, the lower the rents, the lower the taxes.
* Tie the tax brackets to the rental cost of a square foot of land by county, the lower the rents, the lower the taxes. [[THIS IS ALREADY BEING DONE and it's not working! TF]]
* Declare a Jubilee Year every 49 years.
* Declare a Jubilee Year every 49 years.



Revision as of 20:23, 24 May 2013

This is a place for "raw ideas" that need to get flushed out before becoming "concrete objectives": \

  • utilize planning models that favor high density cities, land conservation and discourage sprawl.

*give historically disenfranchised peoples first use right to commons *

  • establish public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food
  • Local food production, community gardens, permaculture agriculture - worker self directed organic agriculture coops on the model of Mondragon in Spain *
  • tie the salaries of public officials inversely to the price of a grocery basket of sustainable food, calculated relative to zip code
  • peg the value of currency to the number of fish in the sea
  • Tie the tax brackets to the rental cost of a square foot of land by county, the lower the rents, the lower the taxes. THIS IS ALREADY BEING DONE and it's not working! TF
  • Declare a Jubilee Year every 49 years.




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