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RALPH KENYON
EXTRAPOLATOR
MAY 19, 2019
Read The New Democratic Platform based on balanced Commonwealth and private capitalwealth.
From my cognitive ergonomics research: "Tax" is a horrifically negative meme that evokes "no" and "never" in virtually all hearers, especially conservatives, libertarians, and Republicans. Support for needed services and benefits should not be called a "tax"; it should be called an "assessment" AND be paired with what that assessment is buying.
Elizabeth Warren's proposed "wealth tax" is doomed based on the semantic reactions of the meme
"tax". People are willing to pay for what they need and want. Her
"wealth tax" should be divided into two major assessment,
"Infrastructure assessment" (roads, bridges, buildings, etc.) and
"commonwealth assessment" (Health, Education, Welfare, etc.). The
"inheritance tax" should be called an "extreme wealth inequity
assessment" or "human commonwealth assessment". The point is that any
"tax" should not be called a "tax"; it should be called something that
implies support and names the need being addressed - something people want and will pay for.
In the USA these five principles have given way to extreme pursuit of wealth, nonreciprocal liberty, loss of life due to poverty and lack of healthcare, loss of inalienability throughout the population and massive inequity in all aspects of the society. The five fundamental principles of the creation of the United States Of America have been changed by special interest conservative politics and the intrusion of Christian religion to implement the five principles EXACTLY IN REVERSE of the order dictated in both the Declaration Of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution. The laws passed, the decisions of the courts, and the rules and regulations implemented by the administrations in the last hundred years has turned the USA into a corrupt oligopoly run by plutocrats, all in the name of capitalism, extreme liberty, self-sufficiency, and a complete disregard for the disadvantaged and less able.
Do you understand that extreme capitalism is the opposite of
democracy? Just by reversing the priority order of the five
fundamental principles of our democracy, the USA has been turned into a
oligopoly controlled by plutocrats slowly over more than a century of
appeal to "conservative" values in the priority order of Business,
Freedom, self-sufficiency (everyone for himerself), loss of rights, and
ubiquitous inequity.