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Why the Two political parties hate the Fluidity of funds theory [1]

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Date: 2023-05-17

Dog days of summer

Lately I have been talking to people about why we need change how we do things today as a society. By this I mean we need to stop accepting that running a top-heavy corporation with management that has wages that are crippling while paying slave wages to its minions and running our government in the same fashion is the best way to go. Then I am asked what could be better because most of my audience is way younger than my 54 years of age.

I say how about offering your foundation of workers a fluidity of funds so they no longer are worrying about the next bill to arrive in the mail or the date of payment. By fluidity of funds, I mean bring the wage of the lowest workers up to a minimum wage of a living wage by the time they pass their probation period. When you have workers no longer worrying about their utility bills, rent/mortgage, credit card bills, and then have a few dollars left to spend on something like a movie for the family or a dinner out, small businesses start prospering more because the worker is no longer worrying about having to shop at the cheapest store around like a Walmart or Dollar Store. But not to forget the workers already earning a bit more then minimum wage they should get the same raise as everyone else so that keep what they earned from the time put in on the job. Then the states need to make sure we have a cost-of-living wage figured yearly keep workers on track with inflation.

What most Republicans and Democrats don’t want to admit is this raises taxes raised for the government. First the people spending the money are paying taxes on the money earned, then the companies need to be made to pay taxes on the money spent on the goods and that has to be done by done by hiring more responsible people for your government and that is what you do every time one votes for a person running for office.

Now we have to make people understand that when people vote for people for office, they are hiring people for their government like they would for a business they owned and should take some pride in it instead of treating it like they are voting for someone on “American Idol” or “The Voice”. This is why we get so many politicians that play to the cameras more like an actor than do actual work to pass legislation. Look at our latest debt ceiling impasse and who is where. Biden is holden his cards close to his chest because he has a winning hand and McCarthy is walking around to any camera he can find like the emperor showing off his new suit the tailor made just waiting on the little boy to holler “Oh my God, he’s Naked as a jay bird!” because he has a congress that is more like gaggle of cats with their tails tied together then a working group. In the end, McCarthy will have to ask the Democratic congress members for help to pass anything dooming any chances he has to show him as a good Republican leader this term.

Reason I added in the last part is we need good people in office to make sure the fluidity of funds reaches another place, fixed income. After we raised incomes, we also raised the amounts earned for SSI and SSD. If you are currently on these incomes, then many of you understand that these incomes have never kept up with inflation and if you're lucky, you have some kind of income that didn’t count against it. But we can easily remove the limit on $160,000 and tax everyone. Personally, I wouldn’t mind if we put a limit on how much someone got, as long as we could tax someone like a Jeff Bezos 8% for his billion-dollar yearly income, I could live with it. And I would like to see an SSI tax stock sales because there are too many of our 1% that live off the stock market and at least we still get some taxes from when they pulled a short sale to avoid federal taxes by selling a stock and buying it right back, nasty trick that’s legal. Amazing what a little lobbying can do. But all these tricks could refill the coffers of Social Security and refill it fast but it needs people in office that want to actual work, not preen for the cameras.

Finally both sides like to offer band aids for fixes across America but how about this for an easy fix. We spend billions in utility assistance across America but what would happen if we were to instead offer to put up solar panels on every home instead including rentals and businesses? Let me be up front, I am a brat from an employee that retired from a utility company. My father came across a report that the company could have offered to help its customers get solar panels, put generators on all their dams and plan wind generators farms at several locations it had access to, it would make the state the generator of the west coast but if they did, they knew the state would force them to lower the price per kilowatt to the customers who still had to pay, so they passed on it. This report was dated back in the 70’s, now imagine how good today's technology would instead? Now do you understand why my faith in corporations is not very high? If it’s not in their best interests for profits, it is not in the best interests of the public or for them to know. Then if we wanted to top off this plan, we add in for ranchers/farmers solar/wind generators for any areas that produce weeds or rocks so they become income generators for them instead. No matter what party they are in, how can they refuse the ability to improve their financial stability?

Fixing the instability incomes across America should be a staple for any political party because it also fixes how much they take in as taxes in the year as the public becomes more flush with the ability to cover their own bills and rely less on credit, the more income the government sees. A credit heavy society only helps one portion of society, the banks and Wall Street. Again, the rich, get richer and we as a society are not working smarter, just harder. I don’t know about you but I am tired of paying more on interest then I am on principle and with more cash, I could buy less on credit, pay off the cards faster and have more to have for future “Oh shit” moments that I can’ control later. Now that is a society that I want to live in that we use to have in the 1960’s.

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