Four Freedoms: leading to life, liberty, justice, and happiness.: True Tax Reform considers a living wage nationally.

Monday, October 23, 2017

True Tax Reform considers a living wage nationally.

In many American communities, families working in low-wage jobs make insufficient income to live locally given the local cost of living.

Recently, in many communities, community organizers and citizens have successfully argued that the prevailing wage offered by the public sector and key businesses should reflect a wage rate required to meet minimum standards of living.

Who Uses the Living Wage Tool and Why?

Living Wage Rate Tied to the Cost of Housing and Child Care.

Results from the 2016 Data Update.

The living wage in the United States in 2016 is $15.84 per hour according to MIT’s Living Wage Calculator, before taxes for a family of four (two working adults, two children) or, $65,894 a year before taxes.

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Our, "We the Peoples", purpose must be to legally enforce accountability and responsibility in our government by focusing our attention on:

Steps in the Processes:

Understanding, "We the People" are the bosses in this U.S. democratic government. We are actually accountable and responsible for what happens to us when we do or do not become informed with truthful verified facts and vote.

We must understand that national media is 17% to 40% fact and truth based. Most media sources lie about facts and truths 80% of the time. This country needs to return to and enforce the Journalist's Creed.

Our government refuses to enforce the laws equally for all Stakeholders (citizens or people). Currently, it is bought and majority run by Shareholders: adolescent bullying gangs of law breakers. The rich through politicians through bribery, collusion, and corruption (plutocracy and oligarchy).

Critical Terms:

Trust: Confident in the facts and truths shared by a person or thing.

Truth: Undeniable facts and realities; completely accurate and true statement(s).

Accountability: The obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities, accept responsibility for them, and to disclose the results in a transparent manner. It also includes the responsibility for money or other entrusted property.

Community: a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

Enforcement: The act of compelling observance of or compliance with a law, rule, or obligation. Without enforcement there is no compliance with positive and good norms for how to act toward other people.

Freedom: the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. The state of not being imprisoned or enslaved. Absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government.

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Justice: just behavior or treatment. "a concern for justice, peace, and genuine respect for people"

Liberty: the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.

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The principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decisions with punishment for those who choose not to change their behaviors toward all people.

Responsibility: A duty or obligation to satisfactorily perform or complete a task (assigned by someone, or created by one's own promise or circumstances) that one must fulfill, and which has a consequent penalty for failure.