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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Jan 14, 2012 10:47:18 GMT -6
There's a relatively new organization called the " Citizens Party" whose goal is to elect truly populist candidates to political office. They refuse to take donations from PACs, Corporations, unions, or foreigners. I don't know how viable they actually are, but their platform certainly starts out in the right direction (starting with withdrawal from the WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA--and with ending the US Trade Deficit) This is a link to the Citizens Party platform page: www.votecitizens.org/citizens-party-platformBelow are excerpts from the 1st page of their party platform. Note the overwhelming anti-free trade, anti-globalist message. " Main Street Platform..Critical Issues [/font]."[/ul]
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Post by Russell J White on Feb 22, 2014 10:26:25 GMT -6
The English version of this Party is the Populist Alliance (popularalliance.org).
Our 20 point program following EU withdrawal is here:
1. Make businesses that import and employ overseas labour rather than homegrown workers responsible for their education, healthcare, their housing costs and their visas, not the taxpayer.
2. Bring back credit and exchange controls, clampdown on the speculators and use the money gained to get our people off the dole and back into work through creating a National Investment Bank to revive British manufacturing.
3. Scrap student loans for university courses that are the most likely to be of use to society (to provide us with doctors, scientists etc) and restore grants for them
4. Replace VAT with import tax to give British made goods cost advantage over foreign ones. Buy British.
5. Bring water, gas, electricity, coal and British Rail back into public ownership
6. Help for all small enterprises that employ fewer than 10 employees by removing them from Corporation tax altogether.
7. Return to a non-profit making Milk Marketing Board, or an arrangement with dairies whereby farmers can agree an annual fixed price for all the milk they can produce. Any surplus production, would go into the manufacture of butter and cheese products, thereby reducing our need to import foreign products.
8. Tax all stock exchange transactions (the Tobin Tax)
9. Tax currency transfer heavily so that the money people make in the UK is spent in the UK. Not transferred overseas to be spent abroad....
10. Support the control of mortgage lending to ensure that the amount lent is not beyond the capability of the borrower to repay.
11. Implement rent controls to fix rents at a figure that is affordable for the private tenant and small shopkeeper.
12. Oppose the “Bedroom Tax” which will see people in social housing with one spare bedroom will have their housing benefit cut by 14%, while those with two or more unoccupied rooms will see it slashed by 25%.
13. No more sales of council houses at a knock down price to be allowed
14. A ban on further conversion of older properties (pre-war) into multi-occupancy so that areas retain their charm and character and greedy property speculators no longer profit from cramming as many people into small conversion flats as possible.
15. Advertising overseas to fill employment vacancies to be made illegal, as will advertising in any language other than English, so that everyone has a fair chance to apply...
16. Oppose further privatisation of state assets such as London Underground, Royal Mail etc..
17. Defend the pubs and working men’s clubs- abolish duty on alcohol bought in pubs and transfer the tax burden onto alcohol bought in supermarkets and off licences so pub closures are reversed and more pubs open and prosper.
18. Introduce a Basic Income, and maintain the National Mimimum Wage, with a view to making it a "living wage" through the Basic Income provision..
19. A ban upon zero hour contracts
20. Become a Direct Democracy like Switzerland with Referenda chosen by the people, not the politicians. Power to the people not the corporations and bankers.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 27, 2014 0:53:50 GMT -6
Of all the things mentioned, I certainly like the import tax.
For the home country, that's much more helpful than a VAT--which deprives the home country's consumers of buying power.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Mar 8, 2014 12:17:02 GMT -6
Russell White,
I also like items 1-3:
I don't know about the National Investment Bank, however.
What the US really needs is the incentive to move production back to the US, not the financing.
And that could best be accomplished by your #4 (Tariffs), which could be used to make the after-Tariff cost of producing overseas prohibitively expensive. Tariffs could easily be raised high enough to offset the wage savings from using cheaper overseas labor.
American business needs to be incentivized to produce domestically. The best way to do that is make it more expensive to produce overseas by use of Tariffs.
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