CAMAHORT PLAN TO END POVERTY WHILE SUSTAINING THE ENVIRONMENT

By Jose Luis "Joe" (Olivares) Camahort, Ph.D.

(1.)Scrap the Tax Code, abolish the IRS, and replace all taxes with a fair, flat transaction tax. Keep Govt. out of our pockets until we spend our money!(2.)Have the U.S. Treasury Dept. provide FREE PERSONAL financial services. Keep banks, insurers, and brokers out of our pockets forever!(3.)Consolidate all Federal benefits into one computerized, automated package based on age and income level;(4.)Be as productive as possible with our resources.

I'm on the November 7, 2000 ballot as the Reform Party Nominee for the U.S. Senate. I'm practising the ultimate in Campaign Finance Reform. I'm not accepting campaign contributions from anyone and plan to stay below the $5,000 FEC reporting threshold for out-of-pocket expenses. Instead, I'm forming a volunteer networking group called "CAMAHORT'S COHORTS." I challenge all candidates to do the same. Let our IDEAS do the talking and our VOLUNTEERS do the walking! If you truly want Campaign Finance Reform, elect a candidate like me and send the most powerful message to the White House and the U.S. Congress! As long as Reformers like me keep getting only single-digit percentages of the total vote, nothing will change!

I have a PLAN to end poverty while sustaining the environment. If we do not end poverty, poverty will end us through ever more violent conflicts with weapons of mass destruction. If we do not sustain the environment, Mother Nature will end us by not sustaining life. My book, "Ending Poverty While Sustaining the Environment," may be accessed from http://home.att.net/~joe.camahort

The CAMAHORT PLAN involves keeping the Government out of our pockets until we spend our money; and keeping the banks, insurance companies, and brokerage firms out of our pockets forever! It consists of the following major elements: (1.) Scrap the Tax Code, abolish the IRS, and replace all taxes with a fair, flat transaction tax on everything paid by everyone. No exceptions and no exemptions; (2.) Have the U.S. Treasury Department provide FREE PERSONAL financial services (banking, insurance, and brokerage services) to all Citizens with a valid Social Security Number (SSN); (3.) Consolidate all Federal benefits into one computerized, automated package based on age and income level; which incentivizes people to earn more and disincentivizes them from having more than one child per parent per household; and (4.)Encourage individuals, businesses, and the government to be as productive as possible with our resources.

We have the marvelous digital technology and the government has the supercomputers to accomplish all of the above. The government already has a database with all the SSN information. The banks, insurance companies, and brokerage firms can continue providing financial services to businesses, professionals, and corporations.

My PLAN does not repeal the truism that "there is no free lunch." I'm fully aware that we the people, we the consumers, we the taxpayers, we the individuals pay for everything. Always have and always will! We pay for the 9 million Federal employees, the umpteen million State, County, and City Government employees, and umpteen million more who work for the banking, insurance, and brokerage industries. We pay for their big buildings, for Air Force One, etc, etc. When Ronald Reagan proposed doing away with Corporate Income Taxes because "Corporations don't pay taxes, people do," no truer words were spoken.

What my PLAN will accomplish are three things: (1.) Give individuals complete control over their INTACT paychecks. They choose how to spend their money and therefore choose what to pay transaction taxes on; (2.) Make the Federal government a true public servant, serving us in relevant ways by providing essential PERSONAL financial services, free of loan interests, insurance premiums, and broker commissions; and (3.) Provide economies of scale, increased productivity and efficiency; e.g., eliminate 114,000 IRS employees; which will make us pay less for everything in effect.

I know that there is a great distrust in the Federal government doing anything more efficiently. I personally wouldn't trust them to chew gum and cross the street at the same time. However; providing PERSONAL financial services involves the few things that the Federal government can do reasonably well: database management, bookkeeping, and computer security. They already send out millions of social security checks, welfare checks, etc with few hitches.

My sweeping proposals for reform will allow workers to receive an INTACT paycheck, renters and the working homeless to become homeowners. It will provide two-parent families the option of having one parent stay home with the children. My twin goals of ending poverty while sustaining the environment is the one-two punch that can knock out Mrs.Richard Blum (AKA Dianne Feinstein) on November 7. Our job is to get the message out. It's a winning message. If you want to enlist as a CAMAHORT COHORT; please let me know by e-mail, FAX (408) 249-1048, Voice (408) 249-0803, or snailmail at 457 South Monroe Street, San José, CA 95128-5144. To the 46,000 plus who voted for me on March 7, thank you! I'm honored and humbled by your votes. We each need to recruit 65 more voters to our cause. The magic number for Victory in November is 3-Million votes! Let's just do it!