Taxation

 Our friend Lucy Bee asks about taxation.

In respect of the plan for Co-operative Socialism, I offered:

Lucy Bee the plan for Co-operative Socialism abolishes all personal taxation (Income Tax, VAT,  User fees, etc) as unnecessary.

The recirculation flow (while money and its equivalents are still in use) will be of 'Financial Surpluses' from those Co-operatives that form the Social Economy back to 'The Common Purse'.

And thence by circulation back to the Community (as a Co-operative Commonwealth) for use to create a Co-operative Commonweal (by, for example, funding the Co-operative Solidarity activities, the Living Income for Everyone, and making grants, not loans, to overseas' Co-operative Commonwealths.

All in order to create a global Co-operative Commonweal as not a World Government, but a network of global ecological, social, family and individual patterns of Co-operative Careship: a sustainable Co-operative Commonweal.

Thank-you for asking!

Very best wishes,

John 😊