An Economy for the Common Good
A green economy?
Structural reform • End corporate and • Public spending cuts personal tax • Attacks on unions evasion • Undermining of • Challenge employment rights corruption, e.g. • Privatisation of assets government • Privatisation of contracts contracts • Green transition
Sharing rather than growing
Small-scale family farming • Local food chains • Capping the CAP • Reduce intensification and industrialisation • High standards of food safety • High standards of animal welfare
Tax justice • Corporate tax avoidance on massive scale • Depriving poorer countries of revenue • Austerity and public service cuts • EU Commission: € 1tn (£781bn) un paid tax each year across 28 member states
Easy guide to avoiding tax • And to collecting it: • Country-by-country reporting; beneficial ownership register; minimum corporate tax rate
Outstanding questions • Imports, exports and the cordon sanitaire • Transforming ownership and control • Extending the Energiewende • Money creation and introducing a 'social usefulness test' for financial products
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