COMPETITIVE GOVERNANCE
Competitive Governance within every geographic jurisdiction
The following are significant changes. Some programs move entirely to the free enterprise system, while others are taxed and spent in a much more free-enterprise way. Elected representation is greatly diversified with far less power. Representation moves from elections in geographic districts to each person selecting representative agencies in every area of government. Read, understand, and do not judge too early; the structure of CRAs, ratings, and other reforms deals with most concerns.
The following are sectors of the Budget and the economy (GDP) that Haley2024 proposes to transition to the private sector. I fully realize that these numbers can be confusing. First, what is included in GDP and what is left out? I use combined federal, state, and local; many statistics separate them. When separated, many overlap, since money flows from the federal government to states and localities. Are education credits part of education spending? Are taxes collected listed before credits or after? Are total taxes collected listed before refundable tax credits, and are they included in welfare? Are health care deductions counted as government spending? Is funding counted twice as federal and local education spending if the federal government funds the local?
The never-ending list of reasons why government statistics are so confusing is because so much "spending" is in the tax code, and welfare is in health care and education spending, just to name a few. The amount of mandated spending in regulations is also significant. Most voters find this system difficult to comprehend, and plenty of evidence suggests most elected officials and bureaucrats also lack a clear view of it. Other complications include groups calculating statistics to match their policy preferences and arguments, such as quoting operating budgets but not capital spending, or leaving out sections that don't support their point.
Competitive Regulatory Agencies (CRA's)
Competitive Regulatory Agencies are the basis of all Haley2024 reforms and structure the private sector. CRAs replace government bureaucracies and regulations by allowing multiple private regulatory agencies to emerge in each business sector, and businesses can choose which agency regulates them. This structure generates better regulations and higher standards. Businesses and CRAs must prominently display ratings, motivating them to protect their brand and improve standards. A better regulatory system will increase GDP, jobs, and average incomes by eliminating counter-productive and ineffective regulations.
REALTOR® and the BBB are current examples of business owners accepting higher standards for increased business. This innovative idea of CRAs replaces the DOL, EPA, DMV, SEC, VA, DOE, FDA, OSHA, DOT, FAA, HUD, FCC, TSA, and the ADA, to name a few.
Many competing rating agencies that you and millions of others trust do in-depth research on each business and on the CRAs and then rate them. Since the government will no longer regulate to ensure standards, it will be vital for rating agencies to fully inform the public with mandatory signs. Ratings provide incentive for companies to improve their standards because consumers will partly determine where they shop by rating levels.
Returning Welfare back to Charity
Over ten years, all city, state, and federal government welfare programs will transition to Charitable Distribution Associations (CDAs). As a replacement for taxes that pay for welfare, citizens will be required to make a personal charitable contribution equal to 5% of their income to one of about a dozen CDAs. CDA's would then fund charities according to their philosophy of helping the poor. This plan has the benefit of allowing Americans to help in the way they believe does the most good. CDAs would be rated and helps those truly in need far greater than government’s poverty inducing welfare.
Health Care
Health care and Health insurance are currently greatly controlled by Government spending and regulations with huge bureaucracies. Reforms of welfare to charity and Competitive Regulatory Agencies will significantly take monopolized government control away from the health care and health insurance industries. This structure will ensure the poor will receive health care far superior to government control.
Education
We currently have an education system that is greatly controlled by the government. From birth through college, the government has a very heavy hand, which greatly compromises parental and constitutional rights. Free enterprise is far superior. In my plan, every child will increase their chance of attaining a quality education. It is wrong to fund the education of 85% of the children and not the other 15%. It is fundamentally wrong for government to offer to fund a child's education only if they are enrolled in public schools, thus controlled by government bureaucrats. This is not a war on public schools, as most teachers do great jobs. Parents have the right and obligation to direct the education of their children.
Social Security
The government will convert federal promises of retirement funds and health insurance into debt and deposit savings bonds into IRAs, guaranteeing funds for those on, or soon to be on, S.S. and Medicaid. Yes, there will be a tax to pay the bonds. This does not add to the tax burden; it just shifts a current tax to repaying bonds. Thereafter, using CRA's and ratings, government requiring a certain amount of retirement planning would be appropriate and sufficient.
Roads and Transportation
The government’s monopoly on roads lacks free market benefits. Haley2024 transitions roads to a structured free enterprise system that brings free market benefits of lower prices and higher quality.
Military Policy
The goal of reforming the military would be to combine free-market principles with total control of the use of force in the hands of elected government officials. Currently, 535 members of the House of Representatives and the Senate determine the military budget, largely based on the individual benefits of each state or district represented and special interests. This results in a large, sporadic budget that is not entirely based on capabilities and skills or on finding the best personnel at the most effective expense.
The Spread of Power
Haley2024 is all about spreading power as wide as possible; concentrated power corrupts.
Power is spread by allowing businesses to choose who regulates the rules affecting them, consumers choosing where to shop, and information from the rating agencies you trust. Returning these major programs from the control of a few politicians back to individuals in the free enterprise system returns power to the people.
Competitive Governance within every geographic jurisdiction
The following are significant changes. Some programs move entirely to the free enterprise system, while others are taxed and spent in a much more free-enterprise way. Elected representation is greatly diversified with far less power. Representation moves from elections in geographic districts to each person selecting representative agencies in every area of government. Read, understand, and do not judge too early; the structure of CRAs, ratings, and other reforms deals with most concerns.
The following are sectors of the Budget and the economy (GDP) that Haley2024 proposes to transition to the private sector. I fully realize that these numbers can be confusing. First, what is included in GDP and what is left out? I use combined federal, state, and local; many statistics separate them. When separated, many overlap, since money flows from the federal government to states and localities. Are education credits part of education spending? Are taxes collected listed before credits or after? Are total taxes collected listed before refundable tax credits, and are they included in welfare? Are health care deductions counted as government spending? Is funding counted twice as federal and local education spending if the federal government funds the local?
The never-ending list of reasons why government statistics are so confusing is because so much "spending" is in the tax code, and welfare is in health care and education spending, just to name a few. The amount of mandated spending in regulations is also significant. Most voters find this system difficult to comprehend, and plenty of evidence suggests most elected officials and bureaucrats also lack a clear view of it. Other complications include groups calculating statistics to match their policy preferences and arguments, such as quoting operating budgets but not capital spending, or leaving out sections that don't support their point.
Competitive Regulatory Agencies (CRA's)
Competitive Regulatory Agencies are the basis of all Haley2024 reforms and structure the private sector. CRAs replace government bureaucracies and regulations by allowing multiple private regulatory agencies to emerge in each business sector, and businesses can choose which agency regulates them. This structure generates better regulations and higher standards. Businesses and CRAs must prominently display ratings, motivating them to protect their brand and improve standards. A better regulatory system will increase GDP, jobs, and average incomes by eliminating counter-productive and ineffective regulations.
REALTOR® and the BBB are current examples of business owners accepting higher standards for increased business. This innovative idea of CRAs replaces the DOL, EPA, DMV, SEC, VA, DOE, FDA, OSHA, DOT, FAA, HUD, FCC, TSA, and the ADA, to name a few.
Many competing rating agencies that you and millions of others trust do in-depth research on each business and on the CRAs and then rate them. Since the government will no longer regulate to ensure standards, it will be vital for rating agencies to fully inform the public with mandatory signs. Ratings provide incentive for companies to improve their standards because consumers will partly determine where they shop by rating levels.
Returning Welfare back to Charity
Over ten years, all city, state, and federal government welfare programs will transition to Charitable Distribution Associations (CDAs). As a replacement for taxes that pay for welfare, citizens will be required to make a personal charitable contribution equal to 5% of their income to one of about a dozen CDAs. CDA's would then fund charities according to their philosophy of helping the poor. This plan has the benefit of allowing Americans to help in the way they believe does the most good. CDAs would be rated and helps those truly in need far greater than government’s poverty inducing welfare.
Health Care
Health care and Health insurance are currently greatly controlled by Government spending and regulations with huge bureaucracies. Reforms of welfare to charity and Competitive Regulatory Agencies will significantly take monopolized government control away from the health care and health insurance industries. This structure will ensure the poor will receive health care far superior to government control.
Education
We currently have an education system that is greatly controlled by the government. From birth through college, the government has a very heavy hand, which greatly compromises parental and constitutional rights. Free enterprise is far superior. In my plan, every child will increase their chance of attaining a quality education. It is wrong to fund the education of 85% of the children and not the other 15%. It is fundamentally wrong for government to offer to fund a child's education only if they are enrolled in public schools, thus controlled by government bureaucrats. This is not a war on public schools, as most teachers do great jobs. Parents have the right and obligation to direct the education of their children.
Social Security
The government will convert federal promises of retirement funds and health insurance into debt and deposit savings bonds into IRAs, guaranteeing funds for those on, or soon to be on, S.S. and Medicaid. Yes, there will be a tax to pay the bonds. This does not add to the tax burden; it just shifts a current tax to repaying bonds. Thereafter, using CRA's and ratings, government requiring a certain amount of retirement planning would be appropriate and sufficient.
Roads and Transportation
The government’s monopoly on roads lacks free market benefits. Haley2024 transitions roads to a structured free enterprise system that brings free market benefits of lower prices and higher quality.
Military Policy
The goal of reforming the military would be to combine free-market principles with total control of the use of force in the hands of elected government officials. Currently, 535 members of the House of Representatives and the Senate determine the military budget, largely based on the individual benefits of each state or district represented and special interests. This results in a large, sporadic budget that is not entirely based on capabilities and skills or on finding the best personnel at the most effective expense.
The Spread of Power
Haley2024 is all about spreading power as wide as possible; concentrated power corrupts.
Power is spread by allowing businesses to choose who regulates the rules affecting them, consumers choosing where to shop, and information from the rating agencies you trust. Returning these major programs from the control of a few politicians back to individuals in the free enterprise system returns power to the people.
