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THE PHILADELPHIA PLAN

ECONOMICS - WISE UP!  KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID!

We suggest: A MIX OF CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, AND PROTECTIONISM

  • 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

  • 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 tariffs and duties, which are levied by the federal government.

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

  • 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 City Council and all City Departments.

  • 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.

  • Permit-free / rent-free Saturdays for pop-up "flea & food, arts & crafts" 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 and investors holding worthless shares.  We need to knock off the Ponzi schemes, pump & dumps, and booby traps. 

  • 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)

 
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