{"id":25893,"date":"2018-08-17T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25893"},"modified":"2018-08-17T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:16:32","slug":"ten-reforms-to-restore-industrial-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/08\/17\/ten-reforms-to-restore-industrial-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Reforms to Restore Industrial Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler alert, here are the 10 ways the book, K<a href=\"https:\/\/store.counterpunch.org\/product\/killing-the-host-digital-book\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">illing The Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy<\/a>, suggests to stop the parasites from killing the host.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1. Write down debts with a Clean Slate, or at least in keeping with the ability to pay<\/p>\n<p>2. Tax economic rent to save it from being capitalized into interest payments<\/p>\n<p>3. Revoke the tax deductibility of interest, to stop subsidizing debt leveraging<\/p>\n<p>4. Create a public banking option <\/p>\n<p>5. Fund government deficits by central banks, not by taxes to pay bondholders<\/p>\n<p>6. Pay Social Security and Medicare out of the general budget<\/p>\n<p>7. Keep natural monopolies in the public domain to prevent rent extraction<\/p>\n<p>8. Tax capital gains at the higher rates levied on earned income<\/p>\n<p>9. Deter irresponsible lending with a Fraudulent Conveyance principle<\/p>\n<p>10. Revive classical value and rent theory (and its statistical categories)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the book to understand the reasons for these proposals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler alert, here are the 10 ways the book, Killing The Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy, suggests to stop the parasites from killing the host. 1. Write down debts with a Clean Slate, or at least in keeping with the ability to pay 2. Tax economic rent to save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25894,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25893\/revisions\/25894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}