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Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen

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Overview of Capital Homesteading
Projected Wealth and Income Accumulations
Accountability and Safeguards
Comparison with Alternative Social Security Plans
Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Introduction
Flaws in the Foundation | Social Security and Enron | Social Security and the Wealth Gap | Addressing the Social Security Problem from a Systems Perspective

I. The Proposal in Brief
A Capital Homesteading Solution for Social Security | Re-Envisioning the Future of Social Security | How Would Capital Homesteading Work? | Insuring Minimum Social Security and Medicare Benefits....

II. The Concept of Capital Homesteading
The Historical Roots of Capital Homesteading | Support for Capital Homesteading | Obstacles to Capital Homesteading | A Free Market Way To Generate Mass Purchasing Power | The Systems Logic for Spreading Ownership Incomes The Four Pillars of a More Free and Just Market System: A New Policy Framework....

III. An Overview of Capital Homesteading

IV. Policy Objectives of Capital Homesteading

V. Basic Vehicles for Democratizing Capital Credit
The Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) | The Capital Homesteading Account (CHA) | The Community Investment Corporation (CIC) | The Customer Stock Ownership Plan (CSOP)

VI. Supporting Vehicles for Facilitating Capital Homestead Loans
A New Type of "Fannie Mae" for Bundling Capital Homesteading Loans | Managing Risk Through Capital Credit Insurance and Reinsurance | Capital Portfolio Insurance

VII. Reforming the Money and Credit System
Capital Credit: A Better Way to Finance Private Sector Growth | Creating Money: The Role of the Federal Reserve System | Moving from a Debt-Backed to an Asset-Backed Currency | Detailed Monetary Reforms for Implementing Capital Homesteading....

VIII. Reforming the Tax System
The Purpose of Taxation | Direct or Indirect Taxation | Rates of Taxation | Earned or Unearned Income | Individual Capital Accumulations | Government Debt and Government Deficits | Inheritance Policy | Integration of Personal and Corporate Income Taxes | Capital Gains Taxation | Tax Simplification | Detailed Tax Reforms for Implementing Capital Homesteading....

IX. Other Policy Reforms
Fiscal Policy Reforms | Public and Private Employee Retirement System Reforms | Privatizing Government Enterprises and Services | Anti-Monopoly Reforms | Super Empowerment Zones | Environmental Protection Reforms | Multinationals and Foreign Assistance....

X. A New Social Contract for Creating an Ownership Culture
What Can We Learn From ESOP Failures? | Justice-Based Management | The New Role of the Labor Movement and Wall Street....

XI. Recommendations for Next Steps

XII. Conclusion: Building a Nation of Owners
Plus: Notes
| GLOSSARY | Bibliography | Appendices | INDEX

Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen
A Just Free Market Solution for Saving Social Security
by Norman G. Kurland, Dawn K. Brohawn, Michael D. Greaney

© 2004 Center for Economic and Social Justice. Published by Economic Justice Media.
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