Tax Free Money

Susan Caumont • October 10, 2023

Tax Free Money

A pile of money is sitting on a table next to a calculator.

Wouldn't that be nice?


Where is this money that cannot be taxed, creates no inflation and cannot be invested? And what is it used for?


It is money that is used for a very special purpose, then destroyed when it gets to a bank and its use is over. Right now it is only a concept, but it is beginning to take form in many minds and countries.


We call it Energy Currency. It is a parallel currency. It does not replace existing currencies. It runs concurrent with them. It will make possible the elimination of welfare and warfare taxes.


Why do we need a parallel currency? Because presently the main emphasis of World currencies is on commerce and profitakeing. The emphasis of Energy Currency is Basic Human Needs and by extension the needs and health of our Natural World.


When we think about what is left out of our "for profit" economic belief systems of the World, it is obvious right away that Human life and life in the larger sense are not protected. What is important in present global economic governance is how much money is something worth and how to make money from that value. And we see these values change day to day, as they are reassessed by stock markets, central banks and the federal reserve.


Human value is not part of this calculation. Even though People are the energy engine that keeps everything going. Like Nature, we are looked upon as a natural resource to be exploited. When in truth, because we are essential, we should be valued as the standard for currency values. Not gold! The healthier, more educated, better quality of life that Humanity enjoys Worldwide would be the barometer that controls World currency value.


Modern commerce systems we use are not evil, they simply evolved through hundreds of years of competition. But during those hundreds of years an essential value was left behind. We were so preoccupied, entertained and seduced by the game of economics that we did not notice that our most important possession was slipping away; Life.


Very often the adverse symptoms of for profit economics would hint at disaster. But it has been profitable to ignore these signs, so far. Today, we are more and more aware that the damaging effects of for profit economics are taking us further and further away from more equal societies and sustainable practices and ever closer to irreparable damage. Warning signs are everywhere; suppression of better technologies and practices that challenge the existing ones, profit made on unhealthy foods and drugs through advertising lies, scapegoating of countries and groups of people to obscure the injustices committed in their regions so that "business as usual" can continue, competition for natural resources that result in wars, pollution of our land, air and water, climate change accelerated by human fossil fuels burning. Anything is allowed if profit is the goal.


We can begin to change this. The change happens first in our own minds. Our financial architecture, which is global government, cannot and will not change on its own. Once the necessity of a parallel currency dedicated to human needs makes general sense and a tipping point of humanity is in agreement that it is necessary, there is no way to stop it. "One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." Fortune Cookie.


How will Energy Currency make things better? When a currency is dedicated to providing Human needs, food, shelter, education and healthcare, pitting people against each other for survival is finally over. Voluntary creativity is then possible. Slavery is impossible. 100 percent literacy is possible. Suppression of best practices is impossible. Universal healthcare is possible. Homelessness is impossible. Starvation is impossible. Climate Change can begin to heal. Reality control is over, because education is universally available for free. Only with an educated World population can we hope to approach real democracy.


But what if I want more? More stuff, more houses, more boats, cars, exotic foods, lots of expensive clothes? The for profit economy is still there and working the way it always has. And it is taxable. You can work for money and spend it however you want, invest or save. It will still be a useful and powerful system but it won't be killing Life.


Things can change when people want them to change. Someday the statement "cost of living" will no longer exist. Why are we paying to live from the moment we are born? Society should be paying itself to live well. We are the only reason it exists!


Energy Currency will initiate the transition to universal renewable energy, to universal healthcare, elimination of welfare, elimination of warfare, and elimination of taxes.


This simple concept points towards a direction that will eventually become inevitable. Energy is the amplifier. Human Energy is essential! Energy Currency for Humanity will protect and amplify all life.

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