The CULP Upper-Left (Whig) Platform:
All policies follow the CULP promise: “we shall never support policies that expand government or increase wealth inequality.”
The Platform should be less than 10 planks (policy goals)
ALL of these BOTH shrink government and lower inequality.
The list should eventually be prioritized by polling voters or by National Conventions for that purpose
- Raise the income tax standard exemption to $100K. (Cut taxes bottom-up; tax ONLY “the rich”)
- FREEZE (Cap) total U.S. government spending until the budget is balanced; the resulting give-and-take budgeting should be means-tested: top-down cuts, bottom-up increases; the goal is a self-reliant middle-class that pays trifling taxes and receives piddly benefits.
- Leave NATO (End the empire, No more undeclared open-ended wars)
- Audit the Federal Reserve. Require 100% transparency of all transactions (The Fed causes inflation almost entirely, and it causes greater inequality with its favors to a privileged few.)
- Replace all welfare programs with Negative Income Tax (NIT) + Leverage vouchers
- Fund government schools solely with means-tested vouchers
- Fund health care, food, and housing assistance with means-tested vouchers
- Election and campaign reforms:
- Replace winner-take-all districting elections with other methods:
- Ranked Choice Voting, Cumulative Voting, Sortition, Direct Proxy Representation;
- Fill-in-the-Blank, Open (not secret) ballots (with routine auditing)
- Sweepstakes rules for campaign contributions
- Drug Legalization, no vaccine mandates for adults