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Business Development

  • Promotion of regional clusters

    • Evaluation of old industrial zones for applicability for specialized "brainbelt" creation (e.g. bioeconomy in Bavaria, life science in Zurich, polymers in Akron)

    • Subsidies for companies and employees that relocate 

    • Funding for universities that have a strong start-up culture within a certain field

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  • Promotion of social enterprises

    • Social enterprises are companies that:

      • are not directly in the welfare or social business  

      • refrain from paying out profits to shareholders

      • offer a service or product that helps people meet their basic needs 

      • reinvest their earnings to achieve more affordable products (e.g. a railway operator that lowers fare prices according to the profit or a manufacturer of affordable solar charging stations for developing countries)

    • Allow tax-free operation as long as full accountability is given, salaries are not more than 1.25 times compared to equivalent profession and operates towards solving people's problems is given

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  • Promotion of cooperative enterprises

    • Cooperative are companies that:
      • are owned solely by local citizens that have invested their own funds
      • have individual shares of one person not more than 1% of company
      • have a democratic decision processes with majority mandate
    • Allow tax-free operation as long as full accountability is given, salaries are not more than 1.25 times compared to equivalent profession

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  • Promotion of direct exchange and trade platforms

    • Funding and subsidies for small enterprises or solutions that directly increase resource efficiency (e.g. flea markets, shared workshops, Apps for sharing tools tools, food and goods for free)  

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  • Variable public spending 

    • Public budgets of any kind are not fixed, don't have to be fully spent and unspent budget is not lost

    • Dependent on household income of previous year and can be transferred up to one year

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  • Promotion of start-ups

    • State supported crowdfunding and presale, reduce tax burden for first three years for higher percentage of crowdfunded capital

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  • Innovation management

    • Promotion of innovation and business activity to be partially for marginal groups, meaning that not only highly educated white men should get all the grants for R&D and start-ups. Some funds to be directed into entrepreneurial education and free office and laboratory space in disadvantaged neighbourhoods or regions

Financing

Agriculture & Food

  • Capital gains tax

    • 50% tax rate on all transaction with purely speculative character, for all transactions with a holding time of below 1 year

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  • Collective investment obligation

    • All ventures and business investments that require lending have to be crowdfunded with at least 5% of the financed amount (to prevent business transactions against the common good) 

    • individual contribution between 100 € and 250,000 € (to reduce the evasion of the rule by a few wealthy individuals), contributors may be part of the same legal entity

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  • Bank details disclosure

    • Financial authorities have full access on corporate assets for tax purposes 

    • All internal transfer prices have to be disclosed to tax authorities (to prevent letterbox companies)

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  • Bank taxation depending on transaction characteristics

    • A higher percentage of transaction of speculative nature versus asset management and economic promotion yields a higher tax rate on profits 

  • Farm to Table provisioning

    • Establishment of non-profit canteen clusters in agglomeration zones (e.g. industrial areas, city centres, schools)

    • Mandatory use of (relatively) local and seasonal crops

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  • Blood to bone policy

    • Every part of the animal has to be used within a butchery, high penalty for landfill 

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  • Community supported agriculture

    • Subsidies and tax-cuts for farms that employ community supported agriculture and promotion of practice in schools 

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  • Promotion of permaculture

    • Higher subsidies for farms that employ a multi crop system (e.g. rye to infuse C into soil, barley as herbicide, buckwheat as antitoxin, legumes to bind N from air)

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  • Distribution of secondary food items

    • Any establishment (e.g. hotels, restaurants) may decide to give the contents of unfinished plates and left-overs to the homeless and people in need for a coupon

    • Coupons to be given out by the responsible local welfare state department, participants have sign a waiver against any health related claims and coupons reduce their daily living allowance accordingly

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© 2017 by Till Weidner

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