Hortense Hears 3 Who’s
…Do You?
Hortense the mule gets the message.
Politicians, think tanks and experts are proposing big plans for building new infrastructure, new green industries and new economic development.
When they present their proposals, we should ask three questions: Who will own it? Who will control it? Who will pay for it?
If you know who will own it, you know who will control it. And who has the money and credit to invest will determine who will own and control it.
If the new infrastructure, for example, is paid for with the past savings of the wealthy, Wall Street investments, government tax dollars or government debt, that’s who will own and control the new infrastructure, green industries or new economic development. That means that the vast majority of citizens will own no part of the new growth.
But there is one alternative that none of the politicians, big think tanks or experts have talked about. That is, we can pay for those big projects by applying sound business and banking principles.
This starts by having a “feasible” capital growth project. That means that a business (and the investor or lender) can project that the new capital will generate enough future profits (“future savings”) to repay the loan used to buy the capital. This proven approach can turn every citizen into an investor and direct owner of new productive wealth.
Simply put:
How do you do that?
By financing economic growth in the private sector with insured capital loans and asset-backed money.
This new money and credit would be issued by the central bank (specifically, the twelve regional Federal Reserve banks) through local banks. It would be made available to tax-sheltered Capital Ownership Accounts set up for each citizen (just like Individual Retirement Accounts you set up at your bank).
Driven by the projected customer demand for new goods and services that businesses will produce, the new money and credit would only be created for financing new, citizen-owned capital (including land, infrastructure, buildings and job-displacing technologies like robots and artificial intelligence) added to the economy annually.
Within a transparent system of checks-and-balances, oversight, information sharing and accountability, every citizen every year would have equal access to the financial means to become an investor in the green technology frontier.
America, or any other nation that adopts this system, could grow the economic pie while simultaneously creating new owners of that new growth – and without taking away the wealth of existing owners. We call this process “economic democratization.”
So what’s the plan?
It’s called the “Economic Democracy Act.” This Act offers a set of monetary and tax reforms that build upon powers that already exist in US federal law. These changes will grow a just, non-monopolistic free market economy, restore the private property rights of all owners, and limit the economic power of government.
But instead of only benefiting a tiny percentage of people, these changes will spread economic power through equal capital ownership opportunities to every citizen, throughout their lifetime.
With equal access to new asset-backed money and interest-free credit to buy productive capital – the equivalent in economics of what the ballot means in politics – every citizen will build up an independent source of income, increasing their personal liberty and well-being.
Where can I get more information about the Economic Democracy Act (EDA)?
Here are some links to help you can learn more about the EDA: