Funding Visions – Solving the World’s Problems
We can provide Universal Healthcare while ending Homelessness, Hunger, and Poverty in America
We can do this without significantly raising taxes or demonizing any group
Providing universal healthcare while ending homelessness, hunger, and poverty in America may seem unrealistic, but it is not. There may have been a time when these problems were unavoidable, but not today. We have the economic and technological ability to mitigate these problems but lack an understanding of how to do this in ways that are economically, politically, and socially acceptable. Funding Visions is dedicated to providing that understanding.
How can we mitigate our economic, social and political problems?
Proposed solutions to our economic, social, or political problems usually address problems in only one of these areas. But because most of our economic, social, or political problems are inter-related, a solution proposed in only one of these areas will often create issues (both positive and negative) in other areas. If these other issues negatively affect a group, this group may oppose a solution regardless of the other benefits this solution may have. This has caused many seemingly good solutions to be discarded.
However, if we create a set of solutions from different inter-related areas and implement them together, the positive effects created by some of these solutions may offset the negative effects created by others. This means that a group that would normally oppose a solution may be willing to accept it as part of a set of solutions that give them other benefits.
Using this approach may seem very difficult and counter intuitive. Why would anyone think it will be easier and more acceptable to implement a set of solutions that simultaneously mitigate many of our economic, social, and political problems, when we cannot find acceptable solutions to mitigate these same problems individually? But it may be easier and more feasible to do it this way. We can then focus on the more fundamental issues causing our problems and engineer a set of solutions that when implemented together will be more acceptable.
The Community Support System (CSS)
A starting point for discussions, refinements, and pilot projects
The Community Supporrt System (CSS) is a set of proposed policy changes designed to provide universal healthcare while ending homelessness, hunger, and poverty in America without significantly raising taxes or demonizing any group. The CSS plan makes simultaneous policy changes in the areas of healthcare, income, education, and housing. The proposed CSS plan should be acceptable to both conservatives and liberals. For conservatives this means less government, lower taxes, balanced budgets and more individual responsibility. For liberals this means less poverty, more equal resource allocations, and more equal opportunities. Ideally, the CSS plan should be refined, tested, and implemented in an individual state to verify its feasibility and benefits.
For a brief introduction to the policy changes being proposed, click on one of the following links:
A more detailed but still general description of the CSS plan with some supporting documentation can be found in the book Redesigning America for the 21st Century: Solving our Healthcare, Income, Education, and Housing Problems by David L. Paul. Additional materials can be found in the book Standards That Measure Solutions. Please note: Funding Visions does not solicit, nor does it accept, donations.
Prosperity, Automation and Employment Opportunities
American prosperity is based on the increased productivity that automation, innovation, and trade produce. Automation and foreign trade often lead to job losses. Job losses often create great hardships but over time the overall level of employment in America has always been very high. Why is this true?
The answer is fairly simple and goes back to basic human nature. Automation, innovation, and foreign trade have always led to lower costs and increased availability of goods and services. Lower costs and greater availability of goods and services enable people to fulfill their desires to increase their standard of living. Higher standards of living lead to the creation of new industries and employment opportunities to support increased consumption, shorter working hours, more leisure activities, and longer lifespans.
So, how can all Americans prosper as automation, innovation, and trade keep changing working and living conditions?
Our problem is not a lack of resources, goods, or services, but the fact that many Americans do not have enough resources when the conditions under which they live change. The CSS solutions package is designed to fix this problem without significantly raising taxes or demonizing any group. If adopted, all Americans will always have enough income, healthcare, education, and housing resources to start building a satisfying and productive life regardless of their current situation.
For more information email David@fundingvisions.org
Redesigning America for the 21st Century: Solving our Healthcare, Income, Education, and Housing Problems was published on Amazon in May 2021. The book is divided into three parts. The first part explores some of the forces that are causing America’s problems and why we have not been able to solve them. The second part explores our problems with healthcare, income, welfare, government spending, education and housing. The third part presents an initial set of solutions (CSS) as a starting point to mitigate these problems.
STANDARDS THAT MEASURE SOLUTIONS was originally published in March 2014. New copies of this book are not available as the original publisher is no longer in business. The book is based on the fact that it is easy to propose ideas to solve complex problems but actually evaluating, funding and implementing them is quite difficult. To solve this problem the book divides the evaluation and implementation process into standard phases, steps, tasks and grading systems. Formulas are used to measure how well a proposed idea does at each stage in this process.