VIDEO: We've been in crisis for a long time
Earlier today, Mayor Nutter held a press conference on the baseball diamond of South Philly' Marian Anderson Recreation Center, where he announced that he would raise Philadelphia' sales tax and refrain from shutting libraries, health centers, recreation centers and other city institutions that many in the city, including the Save the Libraries Coalition and Coalition for Essential Services, have been fighting to save. As he consistently has been doing, the mayor painted a picture of shared painand a limited-time crisis.
Right after the mayor' press conference, the Coalition for Essential Services held its own briefing on the other side of the rec center gate (the baseball diamond having been locked up after the mayor was done). While several of the speakers thanked Nutter and repeated his message of tough times,others called out the mayor' regressive tax proposal that will hurt poor and working people the most (thank you, Reverend Brown), held up signs asking Could you live on $9 an hour, Mayor Nutter?(thank you, SEIU 32BJ), and pointed out that for most of us this crisis did not start yesterday and will not end tomorrow. Here, Nijmie Dzurinko of MMP tells it like it is:
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Use IOUs anyone can pay taxes with?
Jct: There' nothing wrong with small denomination municipal or California State IOUs if anyone can pay their taxes with them. When Argentina' government workers were faced with cuts, their unions talked 6 state governments into paying them with small-denomination state bonds which could be used to pay for state services and taxes by everyone.
When the local currency is pegged to the Time Standard of Money (how many dollars per unskilled hour child labor) Hours earned locally can be intertraded with other timebanks globally! In 1999, I paid for 39/40 nights in Europe with an IOU for a night back in Canada worth 5 Hours. U.N. Millennium Declaration UNILETS Resolution C6 to governments is for a time-based currency to restructure the global financial architecture.
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Too bad California IOUs won’t be accepted in payment for state taxes and services like state bonds were in Argentina. Too bad California IOUs will be denominated too big to use as local currency. Too bad Argentina people were smart enough to avoid the tent-cities catastrophe and California people are too stupid to follow their example.
If they make IOUs legal tender, I'll take back every joke I ever made about Girlieman Governor Musclehead if he engineers the California state currency lifeboat.
But Philadelphia has an Equal Dollars system that could save them so they might be even stupider.
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