You’re 100% right we need to get money out of the political system. However, what if there was a single policy that was so beneficial to every economic agent individual and commercial and was so easily modeled and understood to be so by everyone…that no amount of money given to any politician could be elected who opposed it??? Thats what a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale could accomplish. Why? Because its freshman algebra where -50% of price to the consumer doubles their purchasing power and the monetary authority/central bank funds every cent of the merchant’s 50% discounts back to them so they are made whole on their entire price AND the potential demand for every one of their goods and services is doubled to boot. Its the monetary and economic corallary to Victor Hugo’s insight that “If there is one thing all of the armies of the world cannot resist, it is a new (applied) idea/paradigm whose time has come.” And that applied idea is Strategic Monetary Gifting at the various points of retail sale.

Steve Hummel 08/03/2026