The Panacea to Fix Everything

Welcome to the Front Porch!!

VERY IMPORTANT: Please note, if you have not already, read the preceding post ("What if...?") FIRST.

Below is the response I sent to inquirers regarding the previous post:



Hi!

I'm so excited. Thanks to seeing what can be accomplished when we work together, like the Tea Parties, my sieve-like mind just burped this up 5 days ago.

"Thanks for asking about my panacea to 'fix everything'! :)

"Actually, I'm half serious. About the 'fix everything' part!

"As I said in the intro article, I'm being careful about how I put this on the table. In our ideal world, presentation should not matter as much as substance, but in the real world, the 2 are functionally inseparable.

"For my initial response to your inquiry, let's be minimalists. If this strikes a chord for you, then we'll dive in!! Please let me know 'how I'm doing'!

"With one caveat and one request, here it is in a nutshell. First the caveat:

"Contemplate the end result, not how we would get there. That unconstipates the creativity.

"The request: leave the yahbutt's for later.

"Three components:(Something for everyone of every stripe to hate!)


"1. A one page uniform federal tax code applicable to all. (a la Steve Forbes)
"2. A 'guaranteed income' floor for every American---abolish all other government assistance. (this was a popular concept for folks like McGovern 4 decades ago, until someone figured out who would be the real, if short term, 'losers')
"3. Get the feds out of the real estate and natural resource business by selling off all fed-controlled property to the private sector (a la the Liberty Amendment) and using the money to pay down the debt we've incurred for our children's children.


"Disregarding the selling and implementation (which I'm now confident can be done) this is the biggest plausible 'get rich' scheme with no innocent victims I've ever seen...

"We release literally billions of dollars and man-hours into productive enterprises, guided by the experts in the special fields of endeavor: farmers, the medical profession, pharmaceutical industry, developers, successful entrepreneurs, etc. The possibilities are only limited by our public education stultified imaginations!


"Whaddya' say so far...?"

Jack