The Agorocratic Handbook

Consumerism is a problem because it prioritizes immediate gratification. This is wrong because we do not have a right to pleasure. Pleasure is not a First Order Principle. Pleasure is not the purpose of man.

Subsistence cultures are parasitic, because the focus is on immediate gratification and the exploitation of what the people are given, rather than adding value. 

Consumption is not the same as consumerism. Consumerism is consumption divorced from investment. 

Agorocrats prioritize investment over consumption. Consumption is a form of investing when it leads to added value. 

Agorocrats:

• Eliminate taxes on property improvements.

• Increase the rate on passive income until passive investments are no longer profitable.

• Increase the capital gains tax.

• Eliminate income tax.

• Establish a Sovereign Fund that prioritizes investments in the production of real goods and services. The fund is monetized by taxes on capital gains and passive income such as rent and interest.

Debt is consumption without compensation. Debt is a scam played on entrepreneur. It is a form of freeloading. The debtor is a free rider who exists because he gives the creditor a free ride.

The rise in debt reflects the increase in parasitism, the rise in people who live without actually adding value to the community. The Agorocrat Party not only pledges to eliminate debt, we promises to tax away the profits generated by it.

Our three-part platform pledges to 

1. Tax away all earnings based on passive income.

2. Create a new, equity-based currency that cannot be inflated or exploited.

3. Return all asset-based currencies to issuer, thereby eliminating all debt, forever.

Freeloading is the premiant evil.  Satan created freeloading not God, this puts outside of Gods Kingdom. 

We do not own what we did not create. No one can justify taking what others created without eliminating their rights. This is why one will never hear anyone claim no one has a right to their personal possessions. If they did they would even endanger their right to life.

The Timocrat Party protects creator rights. We have a right to what we create but we have no claim to anything created by others. This goes for the natural world as well as the things created by human beings. This is why Jesus told the rich young man to sell all he had and give the proceeds to the poor. He had no right to these assets and to possess them meant he had no faith in his fellow Christians. He may have been going through the motions, but his heart was far from God.

The rich man cannot get to heaven because his possessions are a measure of his lack of faith.

It is important to understand freeloading has been with us since the dawn of time. It is even more important to prevent mankind from freeloading off of God as it is to stop freeloading of what belongs to us.

God created assets. Man creates equity which is the value we add to assets. The value belongs to us but the assets never do. We are permitted to own personal possessions as this is an acknowledgement of our humanity. But we ought never to own commercial assets or things we do not need for personal use.

To end freeloading all ownership that is not personal, will be eliminated. Timocrats pledges to prevent freeloading by:

• Removing all commercial and unused assets from private, semi-private and public individuals and agencies.

• All assets to be held in trust by the community for future generations.

• We pay for all work done and all donations given with an issue of equity deposited into the appropriate account. 

Homelessness is a symptom not a disease. It cannot be solved by spreading the disease to more and more people, but that is what the world seems to do to address homelessness and the other social problems, this world creates. It creates them then does what it did to create them as a way to solve the problem.

What we mean by this is that the lack of homes is simply the result of too few people building homes. The problem cannot be fixed by parties that do not address this problem head on. The problem of homelessness cannot be fixed indirectly. Only by transferring people away from parasitic activities such as politics to building homes, can we fix the problem.

The Timocrat Program:

• Removes people from non-accountable positions.

• People doing jobs that do not produce real measurable value are transferred to trades.

• Everyone is made accountable for what they do or do not do.

• We systematically weed out freeloaders’ and free riders.

• Our policy is, zero parasitism, this will build more homes.

Inflation is a consequence of free riding. It has to do with money only in the sense that asset-based currency permit free riding. All free riding is a form of living without producing value sufficient to liquidate your costs. 

There is a concept referred to as having money work for us, or unearned income. It is considered investing, where a rich person will use his surplus funds to invest in a money-making enterprise and then live off the avails. 

He is often not the person doing the work or running the company. He invests and as a condition of his investment, he becomes entitled to a percentage of the company’s income for the duration of that company’s operational existence.

Inflation can be eliminated by eliminating free riding. Money declines in value because more of it is chasing a pool of goods than ought to be. Though this is largely a symptom of people getting paid who have produced nothing of value, equal to their pay. Otherwise, there would be no inflation. Money only loses value when given to free riders and freeloaders.

The Timocrat Party pledges to provide a currency that cannot be hijacked by fraudsters and scammers posing as investors. We consider investors to be those who advance sweat equity not those who leverage wealth from the productive sector through fictitious forms of money.

The Timocrats promise to provide:

• An inflation-proof currency backed by equity, not created from assets.

• An equity account to all members and participants.

• Accurate accounting that properly assigns to the productive sector the full value of what they produce.

• The abolition of all asset-based currencies. whether gold bullion, fiat notes or bank credit accounts.

• The legalization of prefers accounting to ensure cash-based accounting becomes the standard.

Injustice is an unreconciled account. Every injustice creates a liability. Every liability is an asset under dual claims. The Dual Doctrine of Power, known as might makes right and the end justifies the means, is an example of a system that does not understand or respect ownership.

We own only what we create. We have no claim on anything created by someone else, this includes the natural world, which was created by God and which no one claim was created by them.

Either we own only what we create or we live by the Dual Doctrine of Power in which if you have the means to do it, you are justified.

Might makes right is what justifies the law. The lawmaker has the means and power to make and enforce the law and so claims the right.

The Timocratic Party abjures the use of law and power. We govern by faith.

We cannot have faith in God if we lack faith in each other. The only path to this kind of faith is to know accounts will be reconciled.

 The Timocratic Party utilizes the jurisprudence of reconciliation. 

• The harmed initiates reconciliation by approaching the accused with his or her concerns and means to reconciliation.

• If this is insufficient, the plaintiff returns with one or two friends to restate his case and hear the defence in front of witnesses. 

• If reconciliation is not achieved a Council of Justice is convened to hear the case in front of all interested parties, including all witnesses.

• The count hands down its steps to reconciliation.

• If these steps are not taken within the specified time the accused is ostracized and ultimately expelled from the community.

Regardless of whether you are a secularist or Christian, we are compelled to acknowledge mankind had to have originated in a small part of the globe. Therefore, regardless of where you live you and your ancestors migrated. Migrants have become not just a problem but a divisive one.

However, the basis of the pro-migrant argument is self-defeating and oxymoronic. It is argued that because we all were from somewhere else no one has a right to restrict the movement of people. But the fact that restriction did not previously exist or not implemented, this sets the precedent for migrant policy.

This reference to the common law is a British Tradition and since British Tradition stresses the sanctity of one’s home and homeland, arguments based on migration patterns prior to widespread settlements is inappropriate.

The right to enter a house for sale does not remove the right of the new owner to lock his doors against all those who he does not wish to have access to his home.

There are several arguments made to justify migrants. These can be broken down to three defences. the at-risk justifier, the argument that all persons are migrants, and the need for more bodies because of an aging population and declining work force.

All of these excuses are coincidentally at odds with environmentalism and our efforts are reducing our carbon footprint. In fact, were we not taking in migrants our carbon footprint would be declining naturally.

You may feel sorry for people who have destroyed their homeland, but it is risky moving them to ours. The fact is we do not owe them a replacement property for the one destroyed. They took out no insurance policy with us.

Even were we to offer help, better to help them where they are at, than move them and start from scratch.

Even were we all migrants or our ancestors were, we did not migrate with any promise waiting for us. Even were we migrants it would still not give others the right to also migrate. We are permitted to shut the door once we have entered our home.

If adding migrants is a solution to our aging population, what is the solution to their aging population? Even if it is a solution for us, what of the places where we take their young men? Who is looking after their aged parents?

The Timocrat Party promises to:

• Stop all migrations other than highly technical, skilled help.

• No purchases of Canadian citizenship.

• A cultural conformity requirement added to the conditions for citizenship. 

Property crime covers a large swath from graffiti to the willful destruction of what belongs to others. Of course, other parties and politicians think property is physical and property crimes are acts that damage physical property. But this is a sloppy definition, because blowing up a rockface with explosives, could be considered a serious property crime or the activity of a construction company, depending on who owns the property and who is using the explosives.

Property crime is an act that reduces the value of the asset. Crime causes a loss of value. The penalty restores the value. 

The Timocrat Party will guarantee:

• All costs are paid for at their source by the one who originated the expense.

• No one is permitted to use what is a personal possession without the permission of the owner.

• Use of commercial assets is permitted only if it produces equity. 

• Damage is considered the causing of negative equity.

• If a tree could produce 300 board feet of lumber, its destruction is the destruction of 300 board feet of lumber.

• If stealing results in a loss of value, the penalty restores market value.

• If damage produces an expense, the penalty pays the expense.

• All citizens are accountable for the equity of their community.

• The loss of value not assigned to a malefactor is a loss borne by the community.

• Every Citizen has a vested interest in the welfare and care of the community and may serve as a plaintiff in all cases involving property crimes. He or she has the right and duty to bring an action against anyone damaging, defacing or degrading community property. 

• All citizens have the right and legal obligation to begin judicial proceedings against someone they accuse of a property crime. (See the information regarding this aspect of the justice system).

• Justice consists in the reconciliation of accounts. The person who causes damage is a person whose account is in arrears, justice consists in ensuring the loss is made good by the reconciliation of accounts.

Pollution ought to be considered a property crime though perhaps a passive one. Burning trash that produces noxious fumes has an economic impact on the community. Dumping trash into rivers that flow into the ocean has a global impact. But the solution to pollution is not to externalize it. Not permitting oil wells where you live while buying oil exacerbates the problem by globalizing it. Problems ought always be kept as local as possible.

Pollution is just another social cost created by externalizing costs onto society and future generations.

If the output is harmful, it has not been neutralized by the producer. This can be as simple as throwing one’s cigarette butts on the street to be cleaned up be someone else or left to contribute to pollution and urban blight, or as serious as throwing municipal trash into a river where it eventually finds it way into the ocean.

The Timocratic Party:

• Requires the producer pay the cost of neutralizing negative features.

• The producer of packaging has to make allowances for its elimination without impacting society and future generations.

• Packaging is either an integral part of the product and must be accounted for when pricing a product or unnecessary and needs to be discontinued.

• The goal is always to increase the percentage of our income that goes to investment while reducing the percentage going to consumption.

• Consumption is maintained at a level that maximizes investments.

Poverty always suggests injustice because people are not poor unless someone is rich. The desire for equality is not a denial that different people have different abilities and challenges, but it is the recognition we are not that different. Natural ability does not validate the enormous differences in property ownership that is common in all parts of the civilized world.

Indeed, that is the anomaly of poverty. It is largely a problem of civilized society. As we civilized we learned how to gain enormous advantage over our fellowman.

The program to eliminate poverty is composed of several parts. A Timocratic government pledges to end unemployment, inequality, and poverty through the removal of taxation and other regulatory programs that preferences certain outcomes. This is counter to what we have been taught, but unemployment is the result of government interference in the natural order of things. Normally people work to get what they want. Inequality not only interferes with the natural order it exacerbates whatever natural inequality there is, making it worse.

The Timocratic program to end poverty consists of:

• Reducing and finally eliminating taxation so that people who create wealth have all of it to use in the hiring of help and the purchase of goods and services. 

• The economy is an exchange, the platform of The Timocratic Party focuses on permitting these exchanges to happen without regulatory interference.

• Establishing a living wage and working to make this feasible for all sectors of the economy.

• Higher wage demands reflect barriers to entry. A Timocratic government removes barriers to entry to employment other than those which are natural and genetic.

• The establishment of a unit of exchange called a prefer which enables the market to operate free of regulatory interference or the need of it due to power disparities.

Passive Income is a term that refers to income acquired without adding value to assets. It covers a wide range of liability positions. These liability positions vary from political office to the ownership of shares. It also applies to business ownership and public office. Being a landlord, lender or welfare recipient would make you a recipient of passive income.

Timocrats end passive income by ending the creation of liability positions. When one assumes government office or client of government services one has assumed a liability position. The same goes for adopting any other position that makes one entitled to a paycheque regardless of how much or little value you are adding to the community.

This policy has many faces. Why ought a politician pushing a alien social agenda transfer what belongs to us, to a force of migrants? Where do they acquire the right to do this, other than they have a monopoly on power.

Timocrats

• Systematically remove liability positions starting with welfare recipients, then those who tax, and lastly corporate landowners. 

• Deny the right for anyone to own what they did not create or to profit from what they did not produce.

• Eliminate the legal obligation to subsidize anyone. 

• Charity is the sole responsibility of private individuals, Timocrats remove all public funding of charities. 

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