To bring society and economics onto the same page, on the same land
This week is Budget Day in the ‘UK’ 2025 and was there ever a more complicated picture in the history of human society than the ‘UK’ in 2025?
Someone might say yes of course there is, the war zones, the big global conferences trying to find something to publish afterwards of a consensus, the questions of space travel to find rare minerals to put into the endless expansion of the digital world, all these questions are put out as the big questions of 2025, and a load more besides.
In Budget Week 2025, here in this little arrangements of geography, how radical would it be to refocus everything, not upwards but ….. downwards.
What would downwards mean? Downwards would look at facts and write those facts on a small piece of paper, or no bigger than an A4, which of course does not exist in the natural world. What does exist in the natural world? The Earth does exist, and the Earth is totally dependent on the Sun. The humans who live on Earth are not just totally dependent on Earth itself, which is dependent on the Sun, but also on dry land, food source, water, shelter, and what is called ‘society’, fundamentally for procreation otherwise the human grouping dies out, but when it is procreating to sustain its society, then it is dependent on communication to enable that society to function. Economics is an aspect of semi developed societies, development used there in the modern sense of the word as being good and that every human must be looking to the Protestant ‘west’ to follow their trajectory of individual rights, consumer goods, freedom to holiday and assume that ‘the State’ will sort everything out.
If Budget Week in the ‘UK’ took a different tack to the political situation since WWII, which is an ever increasing funding of non societal healthy organisations and punitive screws tightened on those who provide the connective tissue in maintaining societal health, what could a very simple blueprint look like on the A4 piece of paper?
Here follows an example, and not under copyright or IP, so plagiarism would be welcomed:
Treat every one pound (coin) as money, regardless of whether it comes from employee work, self-employment, pensions and – and – benefits (all the many different benefits). That would automatically bring every human onto the same page and automatically bring a link to a citizen and governance, on a physical land area.
Abolish the personal allowance, it is somewhere around £12,500, and that’s a lot of money (not for high net worth individuals but for the average man in the street). Abolishing that stress point between personal money and what the State is ‘taking’ would automatically refocus the modern obsession with individual rights away from person -v- State and back to the function of governance. It could also be a useful tool to test out an individual’s psychology in whether they believe in society in Britain or not.
Completely rewrite Council Tax as not linked to the size of the house, the ‘mansion tax’ but linked to consumer load. The consumer load has a direct effect on the systems which a government and a Council has to run, like waste collection, education, care of the elderly, upkeep of buildings. An elderly person living in a large house, which was worth virtually nothing before the massive bubble in the ‘UK’ in the last few decades, but who uses very little electricity, does not put out a huge and heavy crate of alcohol bottles each bin collection (which costs massive energy to deal with), who knew that local society when there were libraries and community centres and children had no option but to be outside in all weathers with the resulting health which comes from that, and who uses very little water because they know that watering the lawn is a complete waste, that elderly person would pay very little Council Tax, maybe just £25 a month. The households which consume massively, destruct massively, and cost millions of pounds a year to the now Empire of Social Services, they would pay the top rate of Council Tax, which would be very high.
So a three point blueprint: put a sliding scale from tiny to reasonable on every single pound (coin), abolish the personal allowance, and rewrite council tax to reflect the cost a household causes to the council jurisdiction. Easy!