A year ago, the notion that a global tax on commercial transactions might be enacted was a visionary pipedream, but today it seems all but inevitable.
Why it’s not quiet inevitable is the question of how it would be managed. The presumption is that it will go to nation-states, but which ones, by what proportion and at whose authority? Can states even agree on how to divvy the spoils, much less how to pursue proactive, effective, global programs?
Today’s nation-states are already demonstrating a woeful lack of orientation and capacity to roundly and strategically address the big problems we face.
The presumption of nation-state management needs to be challenged.
States need to be reformed. Meanwhile, the more immediate (and feasible) task is building a transnational, full-employment, service economy dedicated to eradicating social and ecological problems in local communities worldwide under the popular guidance of a Global Problem-Solving Authority (GPSA) and a vastly expanded civil society.
While working to reform our world’s governments, we must demand that the revenue stream of the commercial transactions fee – the Robin Hood Tax – go to local-global problem-solving via mechanisms that the popular movement can and will develop through its use of social media. This will be the GPSA.
The Jobs and Social Salvation Program of the emergent era is full-employment, global problem-solving.
Let’s unite a movement to get it.
Steve Clark (Local-Global Nexus.net)
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