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THE PHILADELPHIA PLAN

ECONOMICS - WISE UP!

We support: A MIX OF CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, AND LOTS OF PROTECTIONISM.

• Follow-The-Money with Easy-To-Access Online Tracking of where Every Taxpayer Dollar is going, to whom, and for what.

• Yearly government & independent audits of Philadelphia City Council and all City Departments.

• Free public healthcare with a private option. Republicans need to "read the room"! Healthcare costs are the leading cause of bankruptcy, devastating individuals, families, and businesses. Let's get rid of the insurance companies entirely, as they are ruining the medical profession by dictating to doctors how they should conduct their practice. In addition, the emphasis should be on herbal remedies first and pharmaceuticals last, as all of these medications are contaminating our drinking water.

• Local Self-Reliance In Basic Needs - food, clothing, shelter, health care, etc. We need to re-establish and protect our local industry, manufacturing, businesses, farms, and wild resources. See WildFoodies.org. Local self-reliance also makes communities better prepared for natural or man-made emergencies.

• Support Main Street!  Provide free online Philly-government registry/ads for Philly-only businesses, stores, and jobs. Plus, provide permit-free / rent-free Saturdays for pop-ups: "flea & food, arts & crafts", etc. markets at designated public parks and public spaces.

• Clean up Wall Street! Ban Hedge Funds, Derivatives, Puts & Calls, etc. It's all 'funny money'.  Basically, it is gambling on businesses and industries that the 'little guy' worked hard to build up and then corporate vultures swoop in to buy up the assets with borrowed money and then sell them off, leaving the employees jobless.  We need to knock off the Ponzi schemes, pump & dumps, and flat-out frauds.

• A Graduated Income Tax Only (based on all sources of income) and an end to all other taxes, including real estate taxes. The exception would be for federal tariffs and duties.

• End to All Tax Exemptions, particularly Non-Profits' Tax Exemption Status, as exemptions have become a racket.

• Federal restrictions on loans and credit card interest rates... that amount to "loan sharking".

• Cutting unnecessary regulations that discourage businesses, particularly small, locally-owned, and/or home businesses, plus the city offering easy access to in-person services to businesses, rather than coerce everyone to go online.

• Phase-out "chain stores" and other chain businesses, as they undercut local self-reliance and independently-operated small businesses.

• End the Fed! Today the U.S. financial system is controlled by the Federal Reserve (the Fed), a consortium of private national and international banks, that are under no meaningful government control nor transparency. 

(Covers City Council Committees: Finance, Appropriations, Commerce and Economic Development, Labor & Civil Service, Global Opportunities and the Creative/Innovative Economy, Fiscal Stability and Intergovernmental Cooperation, Housing-Neighborhood Development-and the Homeless)