The Basics Plan™ powered by GUSH UP!™
By: Brian Dzyak
Tags: Ubi, Debt, Wealth, Money, Equity

Milton Friedman/Ronald Reagan’s “Trickle Down Economics” claim was quite simple and so very much wrong. The concept was that A) giving poor people money makes them lazy, but B ) giving wealthy people and Corporations money will make them hire more people with that new money. Ergo, wealth would “trickle down” because rich people would use all that money to hire new people all willy nilly.

We know it was a lie and was never intended to work.

So let’s try the opposite which I call GUSH UP! In GUSH UP! economics, every citizen of the United States receives $250,000 immediately, tax free. Every man, woman, and born child gets a direct deposit or a check issued from the US Treasury for $250,000.

Most people will first use the money to pay off debt. Nothing is worse than having debt hanging over you so that is where the first big chunks will go: To Banks and Corporations and Schools which are holding that debt. It will GUSH UP! to the wealthy with the benefit of eradicating most of the consumer debt in the United States. Banks, Corporations, Schools win. Consumers win. Everyone wins.

Then, money will be used to save existing businesses and start new businesses. This will spur hiring as capital improvements are purchased to existing businesses and new businesses invest in everything they need. Money will GUSH UP! to banks and Corporations and small businesses as those businesses spend their money. Everyone wins.

Then money will be spent on new homes, either a solid down payment or a complete payoff. New home owners mean more spending in the market. Again, that money will GUSH UP! to banks and Corporations. More people in houses means more economic activity, safer and happier families, and fewer homeless. Happier families means less divorce, happier kids, more productive people, less school and workplace shootings. Everyone wins.

Then money will be used to buy vehicles and other “luxuries.” Again, that money will GUSH UP! to banks and Corporations. Everyone wins.

SIMULTANEOUS with this GUSH UP! plan is THE BASICS.

In short, We the People provide ourselves with a floor under which no one can fall (unless they actively choose to do so).

What this means is that we provide ourselves with free guaranteed basic housing, free guaranteed basic clothing, free guaranteed quality nutrition, free guaranteed healthCARE, and free guaranteed quality education pre-K through PhD level. Zero monetary transaction for those essentials for survival. No money is given to anyone for these things and no money is taken. This eliminates the ability to trade that “home money” for other things. The point is to provide THOSE THINGS and THOSE THINGS ONLY which is why it’s imperative to not introduce a money exchange into the paradigm. Just show your Citizen ID that is also available free of charge, to prove you’re a citizen.

If you want MORE than just basic housing, nutrition, etc… your own house, lobster dinners, vacations to Disneyland… then you get a job or start a business to earn the money to pay for those things on your own. But if you ever need to not pay rent (or can’t) or are hungry or want to get more education, those things are always available to everyone at any time. Again, as a floor under which no one can fall. Imagine a battered wife who needs to escape and have a safe place to take herself and the children. The Basics gives her a safe place to live for free for as long as she wants/needs. Imagine the artist or writer who just needs the time to work, so they take advantage of The Basics to produce that work. Or the entrepreneur who needs all the cash she has to start her business, so takes advantage of The Basics so she doesn’t have to worry about any of those survival costs. When she’s ready, she’ll be hiring people and contributing to the economy!

“But inflation!!!!” “Who’s going to pay for all this???” you shout from the offices of Fox “News.”

Right, so we recapture it for destruction. First, remember that money is a fictional human construct so we can make and destroy any amount at any time. It isn’t hatched from an egg or grown in a field over a number of months. Humans literally invented the concept of money and invented the “money things” we trade back and forth and we invent the “value” of each money thing every single day.

So that’s where the money is coming from. From thin air, like every other penny that exists on Earth. We need it so we have the ability to print it and provide everyone with an amount that is enough to dig most people out of the hole and literally ELIMINATE POVERTY overnight. But it’s not so much that someone can sit back and live from it for the rest of their life (unless they are elderly and shouldn’t be working anyway).

To recapture it, we repeal the Reagan Tax Cuts and implement a Wealth Tax on wealth exceeding $500,000,000. Most of the GUSH UP! money will indeed wind up in the bank accounts of the very wealthy and Corporations so we MUST tax those entities vigorously to recapture all of that money which was just spent in the economy. They could certainly attempt to hide wealth to protect it from taxation, but the resulting inflation would render their fortunes worthless so it’s in their own best interests to agree to get taxed to remove that excess from the system. And they’d STILL be richer than everyone else!

That’s how we begin to fix this unsustainable problem with wealth disparity and every other social ill we’re experiencing due to decisions made years ago by people who aren’t here anymore to see what they’ve wrought.

GUSH UP!

THE BASICS!

That’s how we fix this mess.