Forum Post: Cooperative organizations!
Posted 11 years ago on Jan. 1, 2013, 9:05 a.m. EST by LWCPAForensics
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How about using the OWS Forum to start or promote management consulting companies who consult other businesses to be cooperatives?
Legal and accounting firms would be good ways to co-opt small businesses. Set up contracts, do the accounting, providing consulting on creating cooperative small businesses who compete in the general market.
Check out FreeDA/CES http://occupywallst.org/forum/free-democracy-amendment/ . Can your suggestion be incorporated into that idea?
LeoYo, The free-democracy-amendment is voluminous. I personally believe that progressive taxation (direct taxation) is not good enough. Instead we should tax consumption with an exemption on the first 20-50K of spending for the poor. The rich would pay more because they spend more and it would be more fair. 90% of the laws we have today are OK, it's just that they don't extend to anybody and the 1% abuse them or the judges use the most exceptions. I think one statement would cover 90% of what the free-democracy-amendment is trying to accomplish which is the state mandates investigators to ensure compliance with the laws.
Ensuring compliance with existing laws would not cover any of the amendments proposed. However, my question to you pertains to the section on FreeDA/CES as that section deals with the subject of your post in pertaining to cooperatives.
I'd like to see it be a law that any company who maintains a pension plan, to have contingent upon the maintenance of that pension plan, employee representation on the board of directors. We the citizens, all have a stake in that company once it establishes a pension (which benefits owners more than workers).