We urgently need bold new, enlightened Public Policy as it relates to Labor and Capital. Cut onerous corporate tax rates 50% AND 100% in depressed enterprise zones - but ONLY if equivalent equity (stock) is shared with workers.
THE 3rd WAY
THE 3rd WAY is a very big idea. In the INFORMATION AGE, you simply cannot get ahead on wages alone! You must acquire capital (stock, real estate, technology, etc.). If you are a young person, you must learn these invaluable principles now. If you are a parent, teach this to your children and insure they have a happy life. Moreover, every citizen needs to demand the common sense real hope and real change advocated in this book from their elected leaders.
Learn how and where you can best achieve your long term financial goals – wealth and security. This is not a risky “get rich quick” scheme. It’s a proven get rich slow and steady plan. Already nearly 15 million workers enjoy the benefits of employee stock ownership. Indeed a proven political/economic/social movement of epic proportion is already underway. Yet, it needs to be expanded in geometric proportions! Only then we can truly and finally solve the terrible income inequality quagmire plaguing virtually everyone not in the top 10% who are struggling so mightily right now. That movement is inclusive capitalism/employee ownership leading to a true economic democracy actually first called for by our brilliant and visionary Founding Fathers.
EVERYONE WINS. The individual employees win because they will share in the wealth producing equity/stock of the companies they work for. Participating corporations who share the wealth win because we call for an intelligent, equivalent drastic cut in counterproductive corporate taxes AND they get THE BEST, highly motivated employees who in virtually every case help every business metric improve. And the government/society wins because done properly, it results in no loss of revenue, it will lift the middle and even lower classes, cut social costs, cut unemployment and boost the economy!
SAVE THE WORLD – SAVE THE COUNTRY – SAVE YOURSELF
OUR PLAN
We CAN permanently improve the lives of the poor and middle classes on a MASSIVE SCALE THROUGH THE PRECISELY FOCUSED POWER OF CAPITALISM!
What Our Founding Fathers Believed
Everyone Wins Via Broad Based Property Ownership & When Workers Share In The Wealth
President George Washington, 1789
First President of the U.S.
1788
“America will be the most favorable country of any kind in the world for persons of industry and frugality, possessed of moderate capital, to inhabit."
President Thomas Jefferson, 1801
Third President of the U.S.
1785
Made it a major theme of his writing: “legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property”
President John Adams, 1797
Second President of the U.S.
1776
Pushed broad property access in Massachusetts: ”the only possible way of preserving…equal liberty….is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society”
1765
“Property monopolized or in the Possession of a few is a Curse to Mankind. We should preserve not an Absolute Equality.—this is unnecessary, but preserve all from extreme Poverty, and all others from extravagant Riches.”
President James Madison, 1809
Fourth President of the U.S.
1787
“the United States have a precious advantage, also, in the actual distribution of property…and in the universal hope of acquiring property”
1787
“without violating the laws of property, reduce extreme wealth towards mediocrity and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort”
THERE ARE ONLY 3 REAL CHOICES:
1. Socialist Redistribution/The Welfare State – Dependency, Poverty
2. Concentrated Capitalism - Plutocracy (rule by the rich)/Feudalism (masters and peasants)
3. Shared and Inclusive Capitalism/Economic Democracy…PROVEN successful by over 100 years of data.