Why spend so much time reacting to existing proposed changes and not foster greater awareness and dialogue on the most effective anti-poverty program out there?

The Basic Income Guarantee is explained well by the US Basic Income Guarantee Network.

It combines the virtue of drastically simplifying the tax code, making its future alterations more simple and transparent.

It affirms the fairness of a flat marginal tax rate that constrains class warfare and points to the need to raise more revenue through alternative means(like taxes on oil, advertising, contributions to politicians/parties, pollutant emissions...).

It also affirms the import of trusting the local community to hold people accountable for how they spend their money, instead of trying to regulate it through cumbersome fed'l regulations.

I don't understand why a progressive organization like TPMCafe can't foster more dialogue on this sort of issue!

dlw

I posted about this at my main blog.

It matters a lot that the West stand up to Russia on this, as the future political and economic autonomy of Ukraine from Russia matters for the rest of the Former Soviet Union and for the hope that the political tyranny afforded by wealth from natural resources will not prevail....

dlw