(The content of this post is based on an article by Chris Derrin in the New Statesman 15 February, the full article is here. Thank you.) Those words were spoken by Guillaume Liegey, a former McKinsey consultant who worked on the 2008 Obama campaign and ran the data for Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! Liegey was called in by Macron even before the new party was created, to help figure out how to build something that had a chance of success and was sustainable. Well, it achieved s

Reform tax system by shifting base from income to wealth, it causes no hardship and funds the services we all wish for. It needs bold leadership to make this happen. But as this article entitled Fishing for Funds in The Economist concludes: Today, no prime minister would dare to implement these radical ideas, least of all the timid, distracted incumbent. But the fiscal logic is brutal. If Britons want good public services, they will need to pay more. Real tax reform is comin

‘Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,’ Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations To me that says it all, it is the basis of how we should live our lives and outlines the tasks for the governments we elect to act on behalf of us all, not just the few. Though today, nearl

When millions loose healthcare, kicked off food stamps, or welfare is cut, we have to be ready When death tax abolished, corporate tax is cut, when higher earner personal income tax rates cut, we have to be ready When the stock market goes up and wages don’t, we have to be ready We have to be ready with a plan and program that will bring a better life for all the people, not just the privileged few. A plan that will reduce the severe financial hardship suffered by millions ev

Info below from US Department of Labor website Myth: Raising the minimum wage will only benefit teens. Not true: The typical minimum wage worker is not a high school student earning weekend pocket money. In fact, 89 percent of those who would benefit from a federal minimum wage increase to $12 per hour are age 20 or older, and 56 percent are women. Myth: Increasing the minimum wage will cause people to lose their jobs. Not true: In a letter to President Obama and congressiona

For the majority of the population who do not like the idea of a reality TV performer/billionaire businessman as President, we are stuck with it for the next 4 years unless something unforeseen happens. So what do we do? If the Democrats win the House and the Senate in 2018 then the new administration will be curtailed, giving opportunity for a new agenda. It is no good just protesting and name calling, we need to develop a very clear, bold agenda which is easily understood b

....TO END ECONOMIC HARDSHIP AND INEQUALITY It is an indisputable fact that the wealth we have all helped create sits in the hands - or the bank accounts to be more accurate - of a few. It seems only fair to create a more equitable approach to wealth distribution. One obvious and practical approach for returning the wealth to all of the wealth creators is through a tax on wealth. Indisputable. Fair. Practical. That's a good start. But -- who would pay? Well, the top 1% of

‘No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.’ So said President Franklin D Roosevelt in 1933 and yet in 2014 some 3.3 million US workers were paid the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour ($15,080 a year) or less. An acceptable living wage today is considered to be $15 per hour, yet there are 51 million jobs that pay less, so the federal government (taxpayers) spends $227 billion on we