How a vision of the Earth viewed as Universal Units enables a base level of equality of opportunity

A_MODIFIABLE_SYSTEMATIC_APPROACH.md

How does one go about transitioning something as core as how a government collects income?

What are the risks in getting it wrong?

The whole world is a narrow bridge; the important thing is not to be afraid.

I propose a modifiable systematic approach which works in steps; one which is assessed at each step so as to determine, in order to publish, not only the effectiveness of the outcomes but also to count any externalities produced by the actions performed. For this author it’s not assumed that all the answers, or even most of the answers, are known but I’m willing to think that enough people—with the necessary backgrounds, experiences, ideas, energy, time, and space—are gathering to enable experiments not only at the municipal level but also outwards toward the county, and region. For instance, I live in a subdivision. That subdivision is part of a small neighborhood. That small neighborhood is part of a larger recognized neighborhood. And that larger neighborhood borders other similar larger recognized neighborhoods. In the Greater Orlando area there are 109 recognized neighborhoods and it seems like new ones are being recognized each year.

What if only the land was taxed, exempting the structures, in neighborhoods 110-112; and, in addition, in neighborhoods 113-127 only land was taxed and there were applied NO SALES TAX (or SALES TAX REBATES) upon construction materials? So that in the region of the next three major recognized neighborhoods property tax revenue was derived from the unimproved value of the land ONLY and in the fourteen neighborhoods after that additionally the costs to construct would be at the discount of sales taxation. These are two distinct experiments which, because they move at the speed of construction, could have measurable effects. I’m not proposing more tax or less tax but tax shifting towards means which are about eliminating deadweight loss — that portion of economic activity which isn’t occurring since our existing forms of taxation discourage it.

BECOMING_EFFECTIVE—CGO_DISCUSSES_NADER.md

Georgist discussion around Ralph Nader’s observations, It’s Easier Than You Think by Dan Sullivan at CGO 2017.

Points drawn:

1. “To know and not to do is not to know.”
2. Solutions exist in books which are yet to be applied.
3. We're supposed to be an advanced society but we are a society which is bored with solutions to injustice.

• The culture of plutocracy and oligarchy deliberately makes important proposals for change dull.
• People get turned off by the latest greatest solution because the last greatest solution produced skepticism.
• The synthesis of left and right often splits into groups so that the drive is lost.
• It's not an easy victory to win because we're more like abolitionists.

4. The power-structures' strategy is divide-and-rule.

• Once you get down from the abstraction level to where people live, work, and raise their families then the reality is that you get a sense of fairplay which comes into people. Fairplay breaks down liberal-conservative, libertarian-progressive. The reality invokes fairplay — “golden rule” whatever you want to call it — that is what we have to focus on.
• When we do that then the agreement level starts going over 60%, 70%, 80%.
• One potential source for continual victory is the profit motive: by raising land value via a landtrust.
• One potential source for continual defeat is to only preach to the choir.

NATURAL_FLOW—MONEY_BACKED_BY_THE_PHYSICAL.md

In the following: the Physical is considered both all places and all matter not composing humankind. The Population is all conceived living human beings.

DIVIDE the Physical by the Population and you have the size of each Universal Unit. Let the value of each Physical Universal Unit be highly divisible out to at least twenty-three decimal places. Establish that each being is entitled to their equal portion of the Earth in so much that money, backed by the physical, is attached to every person from conception and that instead of specific denominations the net worth of the land holdings of each person on Earth is valued at one unit which is equivalent to the total physical divided by the total population of the living.

Let that portion of the Earth for which any seeks to pull out of the commons for which there is not left enough, after the pull and good enough for the rest, an extraction fee or natural resource value tax, which becomes deducted out of the being’s account in order to fund government, “the lesser,” and the citizen’s dividend, “the greater” which is credited back to the being’s ledger variable. In essence upon every lunar cycle, based upon usage pulls summed nightly, upon the new moon let each being have credited to their account their share of the value of the natural resources paid out from the extractions and holding revenues collected.

For each county, municipality, parish, or other governed portion of the Earth: let the local governing tax collector’s office receive those extraction and holding fees in order to fund the minimally agreed upon necessary level of government, as determined by the beings in said territory, and further allow the national government to market to the people direct where the beings in the territories which make up the nation have the power of the purse. Allow all national projects be they defense, diplomacy, and any other such project as the people find agreeable be funded either by the local governments, as decided by local vote, or the beings themselves out of their public purses — the total combination of the two methods.