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THE PHILADELPHIA PLAN: Common Sense + New Ideas

ECONOMICS - WISE UP!

CONSIDER A MIX OF CAPITALISM and SOCIALISM with LOTS OF PROTECTIONISM... because Milton Friedman's "free market" capitalism caused most of America's industrial & manufacturing base, with its millions of jobs, to be shipped off to foreign countries, while encouraging corporate pirates, casino capitalism, and predatory lending at home, resulting in a tidal wave of financial assets surging into the hands of a few. That's not good.

1. SUPPORT MAIN STREET & LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE for National Security, Basic Needs, & Emergency Preparedness:  A)  Provide free online local government registry space for local-only businesses, products, and jobs. B) Provide rent-free "flea & food, arts & crafts" markets at designated public parks and public spaces. C) Cut unnecessary regulations that discourage businesses, particularly small, locally-owned home businesses, plus offer easy access to in-person government services to businesses, rather than coerce everyone to go online. D) Phase-out  "chain businesses" and “bulk discounts” that unfairly undercut small owner-operated businesses, and which also sabotages local self-reliance, E) encourage the spread of small "regenerative" farms and ranches. 
    
2. CLEAN UP WALL STREET: Ban Hedge Funds, Derivatives, Puts & Calls, etc, and other 'funny money' Ponzi schemes that constitute "casino capitalism", not investing, and which threatens our economic system and sabotages U.S. companies' welfare and their employees' jobs and pensions.
    
3. CONTROL THE MONEY & CREDIT SYSTEM: A) Per the US Constitution, the federal government must control the money supply, therefore, end the Federal Reserve (a consortium of U.S. and international banks), B) Limit interest rates on savings and loans, and C) Renegotiate the debt of those individuals and businesses who have been the victims of the banks' "loan sharking" and predatory lending practices, to include credit cards, home mortgages, and student loans.
    
4. TRACK & AUDIT GOVERNMENT: A) Provide easy-to-access online tracking of where every taxpayer dollar is going, to whom, and for what, B) Conduct yearly government & independent audits of every branch of government - federal, state, and local.
    
5. INCOME TAXES ONLY & END DEDUCTIONS:  A) Adopt a graduated income tax for people and businesses, based on all sources of income, B) End to all other taxes, toll fees, and the like, and C) End all tax deductions, which have fueled widespread fraud and the multi-trillion dollar non-profit racket.  Obviously for our national security, certain businesses and industries will need the federal and state governments' assistance and protection - financially and otherwise.
    
6. PROTECT AMERICAN BUSINESSES, JOBS, LAND, AND ASSETS: A) Impose Tariffs and Bans on foreign products and services, B) Ban foreigners from owning American property and American businesses.
    
7. FREE PUBLIC HEALTHCARE WITH A PRIVATE OPTION: A) A healthy population is in the public interest. Yet, health care is the leading cause of bankruptcy, unfairly devastating individuals, families, and businesses, B) Ban insurance companies entirely, as they are an unnecessary expense, plus are ruining the medical profession by dictating to doctors how they should conduct their practice.
    
8. FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION (K-College) WITH A PRIVATE OPTION:  At minimum, the federal government should provide a publicly available free education via online K-College curriculums, lessons, & testing via U.S. Dept of Education website, so that both the general public and students can learn more, because currently the U.S. has a big challenge with an under-educated and ill-informed public.