First learns what it is all about. Then becomes active locally to implement the policy. In the 1990s I launched a legislative effort in Pennsylvania to enable the boroughs of the state (1000 of these small towns) to implement this approach. The bill passed the state legislature by a vote of all YES and only one abstention. But many cities already are directed empowered to do so. This is a powerful non-violent decentralist approach to address gross wealth inequality and maximize both freedom and fairness, beyond old left and old right.
What we CAN DO is vote in economic democracy on the local level. The city of Allentown, third largest in Pennsylvania, voted to have only land value tax fund their services. A wealthy few who had a lot of land called for a second vote to eliminate the first because they were going to pay more into the public funds. They hired media ads and flew airplanes with banners. But again the citizens voted YES to shift to land value tax form of local taxes. Hurrah! All it took was enough people knowing how to vote in their own interests, not that of the uber rich.
John - Might you like to join our tax shift movement? My book is here free pdf: https://theiu.org/books/ and videos etc. on this site.
I’ll take a look at your book.
What exactly does one do who joins the tax shift movement?
First learns what it is all about. Then becomes active locally to implement the policy. In the 1990s I launched a legislative effort in Pennsylvania to enable the boroughs of the state (1000 of these small towns) to implement this approach. The bill passed the state legislature by a vote of all YES and only one abstention. But many cities already are directed empowered to do so. This is a powerful non-violent decentralist approach to address gross wealth inequality and maximize both freedom and fairness, beyond old left and old right.
What we CAN DO is vote in economic democracy on the local level. The city of Allentown, third largest in Pennsylvania, voted to have only land value tax fund their services. A wealthy few who had a lot of land called for a second vote to eliminate the first because they were going to pay more into the public funds. They hired media ads and flew airplanes with banners. But again the citizens voted YES to shift to land value tax form of local taxes. Hurrah! All it took was enough people knowing how to vote in their own interests, not that of the uber rich.
Bravo! For those voters.
EXCEPTIONAL PROLETARIAN
For John
Extraordinary “ordinary” man,
for 20 years you’ve struggled to promote
egalitarianism—remote,
it seems to me, but your firm plan.
Exceptional proletarian,
two decades now you’ve written in support
of us working class masses. You exhort
us to overthrow the billionaire clan
that controls, exploits us in various ways.
“Divide and conquer,” their classic technique,
keeps them in power as the ruling clique.
But can they divide us for all our days?
You think not. You urge ordinary men
and women to unite and overcome
the tiny ruling class, because our sum
vastly outnumbers theirs. Within your ken
is life of economic equality
(no more few rich, huge class of poor;
no oligarchy that always wants more).
We can transform our inequality.
Your writing has a thick lacework of links
to other essays explaining everything.
You persevere, like Martin Luther King,
without care what the Establishment thinks.
On street corners, as well as door-to-door,
you’ve prompted citizens to realize
the power we possess to equalize.
More power to you, champion of the poor!
--- Robert Cable --- November 4, 2023 ---
Thank you Bob! But note that you've helped me on those street corners too, and for that I thank. you also.