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THE PHILADELPHIA PLAN

ECONOMICS - WISE UP!

CONSIDER A MIX OF CAPITALISM and SOCIALISM, with LOTS OF PROTECTIONISM!

In general:

1. Support Main Street & Local Self-Reliance For National Security, Basic Needs, & Emergency Preparedness - Recover, protect, and promote local industries, manufacturing, businesses, farms, and wild resources through product tariffs and outright bans.

2. Cut unnecessary government regulations that discourage businesses, particularly small, locally-owned, and home businesses, plus offer easy access to in-person government services to businesses, rather than coerce everyone to go online.

3. Phase-out "chain stores" and other chain businesses that undercut local self-reliance and owner-operated businesses, and review the fairness of the "bulk discount" that favors big business.

4. Provide Easy-To-Access Online Tracking of where Every Taxpayer Dollar is going, to whom, and for what.

5. Yearly Government & Independent Audits of Philadelphia City Council and all City Departments.

6. Clean Up Wall Street. Ban Hedge Funds, Derivatives, Puts & Calls, etc, and other 'funny money'. We need to knock off the Ponzi schemes, pump & dumps, and flat-out frauds. Too often it's not investing, but instead, it's 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... which happened to my husband who worked for Eastern Airlines.

7. Simplified Tax System: No Tax Exemptions & A Graduated Income Tax Only, based on all sources of income, and end all other taxes, including real estate taxes. The exception would be for federal tariffs and duties. Non-profits and tax exemptions have become a racket. Taxpayers should not have to support other peoples' investments, charities, or agendas. 

8. Pass Congressional  Restrictions on Interest Rates... that today amounts to completely unethical "loan sharking" and has left millions of students with loans that they are ill-equipped to pay off.

9. End the Federal Reserve. 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.

10. Provide free Public Healthcare with a Private Option. Republicans need to "READ THE ROOM" and HAVE A HEART!  Do we really want people begging for, and going bankrupt over, health care?  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 an unnecessary expense, plus are ruining the medical profession by dictating to doctors how they should conduct their practice.  

For Philly, specifically:

• Provide free online Philly-government registry/ads for Philly-only businesses, products, and jobs.

• Provide permitted rent-free Saturday Pop-Ups for Philly-only individuals and businesses: "flea & food, arts & crafts" markets at designated public parks and public spaces.

(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)