Thursday, December 10, 2020

"Neither private property nor state-owned property is sufficient to guarantee equality and liberty for all"

Innovative solution Number One---


In 2001, Peter Barnes came up with a brilliant idea:  universal property, and how to use it.  It sounds much like "public" property, but it's more than that.  The problem with public property is that the government acts as if the government owns it (& the revenues from it), rather than everyone.

In the article at the link above, you'll find a proposed practice which could contribute significantly to reducing anthropocentric greenhouse gases, AND could also reduce poverty while giving more than half the population of the world some degree of economic security.  Implementation of it cuts across political party lines and ideological divisions.

Some, perhaps many, Oligarchs probably already oppose the idea.  Most likely, that's because they view air, most water, and a good deal of land as waste sinks which are theirs to use at no cost.  Some Main Street people believe the same thing.  That view is not reasonable, and must be opposed.

Paying for the use of universal property and distributing the proceeds to everyone is a stunning idea, and makes perfect sense.
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Not only my opinion.  Stay Well

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