#53.3: What Some Would Do - John Q Public wins a Jackpot

The following work of fiction is the result of a short discussion between two American citizens:

A letter to the President of the United States, from John Q Public. 

Dear Sir, 

Hello, I'm John Q. Public. 

Let's say that after taxes, I were to win the lottery and it was the princely sum of $325 million, that's $325,000,000.00 and rather than using it to live it up as some spoiled pig; let's say I had already pretty much succeeded in living the American dream to the extent of having been able to purchase a modest home and worked most of my life, paid taxes, etc. and had acquired my share of debt along the way and yes sir, even so, it is still very hard to make ends meet

But I just won this money and you know what? I think rather than keeping it all to myself or even dividing it up among four or five of my greediest family and friends, you know I did a little math. How many honest American citizens were there the day you became President, do you suppose? Maybe 300 million? Look, if I just won $325 million, that would be enough money to give each of those 300 million a million dollars. Right? Now how much do we spend on what? For BILLIONS of dollars? And we still have poverty?

Tell you what, Mr. President, I think it would be a great idea for me to give each real American a million dollars. It would be tax free. It would be given provided that everybody would have to give their present job six months notice – if they are lucky enough to have a job in some sectors of our economy, sir - and if they otherwise accept present conditions and pay and I suppose decide what to do with their new found riches.

Oh, people will still work. They will decide what they want to do, because I presume this windfall will be the only new source of capital any American is likely to see again. You see, most personal debts would be settled out of it and people would need to consider the best uses of their new capital, each person would start out literally equal. All the “help the poor” programs go away as no one person would qualify any longer for any of them, after all, each would be a millionaire. So all socialism goes away. 

Some things, Mr. President, I would … suggest or make different. Do you know there are people who believe THEY are special and deserve the right to issue money out of THEIR fiat to do so? We call that “theft of will” Mr. President, deliberately against the 1^st Amendment. Or how about THOSE who have the peculiar monopoly on lending money THEY do not have? Oh, and of course THEY demand back that which was never issued? Really, Mr. President. We demand a return of the US Government back within the first ten amendments and probably the nationalization pending phasing out of the central bank. 

Think what would be different if we decided we had to work as a natural necessity since money, at least for a while, was no problem? Would anybody be talking about the stupid things being discussed nowadays if it weren't for money? Imagine Mr. President, we're certainly not talking about a lot of money here; barely above a third of a billion dollars, and just how much are we supposedly in debt for? $20 trillion? You tell me, Mr. President, how would you explain this to the American people? Merely suggesting that around $300 million distributed in cash to every honest American completely free of any taxes, would transform society is so obvious as to be frankly disgusting that something like this hasn't already been suggested. Don't you agree, Mr. President? 

Oh and of course if anyone already has a million dollars or more, then what would they do further with another million of mine? So those people would be excluded. Maybe there are a few real private enterprisers out there, the pillars of their communities, where the million dollars per person would really make a tremendous difference. We'd soon discover what people really want and are willing to work and pay for, NOT decided by some elite group of spooks and creeps, and I realize that you know I'm being kind. 

Consider this the cheapest form of real monetary reform possible. It would prove once and for all the real power of money. 

Oh and by the way, just for instance, would people be talking much about guns if we were all millionaires? 

Sincerely yours, 

John Q. Public 

John, your math is off. $300 million only makes 300 people millionaires. You would need 300,000,000 x 1,000,000 or 3e+14 that is 3 followed by fourteen zeros or 300,000,000,000,000 or $300 trillion. We are? No, the US government corporation is supposedly in debt to its debtors for $20 trillion, so the question is still not ridiculous. It takes a hundred trillion dollars to make a hundred million millionaires. How much wealth (all that must produce and provide income) has been replaced by what Arthur Kitson called illth, that which takes away income and diminishes wealth by the filth that claim the right to rule over us? 

But there are a few more reasons why just giving everybody money wouldn't work. Oh, it would provide a reset for all personal debt and THAT would be a good thing, but as we keep reminding you, didn't your grandma or someone with good common sense advise you never to have to borrow from others? Yes, we know, some things are required to finance, but how much and how often? More and more of us have come to the realization that it is much better to consider who we are and what we want than what money we have at stake in it. Increasingly those with the money and connections, THEIR money and THEIR connections of course, see all of Agenda 21, etc. and all of THEIR local people and organizations, will attempt to drive all others from competition, as in places like California, and THEY will expect most to consider themselves lucky to be able to afford a comfortable suitcase in which to live and feel guilty for drawing their next breath. 

So yes, we need more money all right, but what we really need is the means and opportunity to bring back some skills and develop others as we see fit rather than as THEY see fit. THAT too is a consideration behind the proposal. Extra money? As long as it isn't THEIRS, we ourselves can provide, but not according to THEM or we will have accomplished nothing.

Presumably adding $300 trillion or so to the US economy at each local level would spur an economic upturn. But THEY don't want an economic upturn. THEY want THEIR dystopian dictatorship and your demise. THEY don't believe in private property unless it's THEIRS. So if someone were ever able to dump as much money into everyone's hands as John describes here, since it is THEIR money, stupid, then THEY get to bid up the prices of everything measured in THEIR money; automatic inflation,  to recoup the extra amount considered a dilution of money supply since THEY will always treat of such things as a commodity fit for speculation upon the day to day value thereof for THEIR own profit, of course. Since THEY frankly and honestly would rather have THEIR money make money on money without THEIR work, THEY will always have the advantage. It's THEIR money, stupid! All the rest of the “build it and they will come” cryptocurrencies are all similarly based on economic doo-doo and are THEIR money, not yours or mine.

So, now with all that said, this is finally ready to go up on line, just as a witness to the ideas John had in mind, if nothing else. 

You know, THEY are often fond of saying, it takes a village. You know, like that in The Prisoner. Why was it exactly that most of mankind would like to resign from the modern world? Until next time, 

Be seeing you.