Assuming our National economy is a complex system, spurred on my many participants; while constrained by certain equalizing rules ...
Assuming our National economy is as egalitarian as so many contend, the source of opportunity for all; while at the same time the great leveler of overly hopeful ambitions ...
Assuming our National economy is the ultimate competitive framework, where we will each eventually arrive at a mindset, which says "we are all in this together," or instead says "we are each on our own, and the one with most stuff in the end -- wins."
Assuming all that, I'm about to suggest Ten Things that would tend to re-steer our complex National economy, course-correct it so that it would work better for the long-term benefit of the many, as opposed to the short-term benefit of the wealthiest few, as we have seen for the last several decades.
Please add your own such "positive feedback" rules to the list, if you feel so inclined.
1) Make low interest Business Loans available to qualified Small Businesses
-- anyone that wants to start a business, should not be prevented from doing so by Bankers who often have other more lucrative objectives, for their excess cash on hand.
2) Raise short-term capital gains tax, while lowering the long-term gains rate.
-- give investors a serious incentive to invest for the long term; and a disincentive for short-term speculation.
3) Force ALL Derivatives to be traded in open Public Exchanges
-- with well-staffed regulator oversight scrutiny.
4) Investigate and prosecute fraudulent Mortgage foreclosures,
-- especially those conducted by using phony documents from Document Mills.
5) Investigate and prosecute violations of Naked Shorting against companies
-- ie. the negative trading/betting with Shares "that don't really exist", that you haven't really "borrowed", just to create a negative sell, sell, sell climate.
6) Provide positive Tax Credits for creating American Jobs, and Tax Penalties for off-shoring those Jobs.
7) Provide extra Tax Credits for hiring the long-term unemployed similar to that for returning Vets.
8) Begin and expand national Infrastructure Repair projects
-- an ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure.
9) Invest in the Mass-Transit systems of the future; including Telecommuting options when the work allows for it.
10) Kick off an Apollo Clean Energy Project
-- with a Target date of 2020 -- for reaching "a 50% Renewables" energy portfolio nationwide.
Isn't it time we start betting on America's future, instead of clinging to the worn out economic 1% favoritism policies of the recent past?
That means we need to be investing in that future, that will benefit the most people, if we are ever to get there. Previous generations have typically done just this -- Invest in our common future.
So why should this economic era be given a "Me-Only" pass, in that regard?
Assuming our National economy is the grand leveler, then that implies either:
"We are all in this together" or "We are each on our own, so get out of their way."
This next election should settle that question, as to what kind of National economy we really have ... and what kind of economy we really want ...
Populist forces willing, of course ...