A peaceful protest · An eight-step repair
The fix for capitalism starts with a pause.
This is not a call to tear capitalism down. It is a plan to save it. On the 8th, 18th, and 28th we shop local, about ten percent of the month. Then we replace a broken tax code with checks that reward raising the floor.
The 8 Steps
Eliminate the current tax code and minimum wage
A clean slate. No loopholes, no carve-outs, no blunt wage floor. Room for a system that scales.
Maximum Disparity Income Tax
Your rate is how many times more you earn than the lowest full-time equivalent in the chain.
Corporate tax on all wages
Rate = 25% of the company’s Highest Disparity Ratio, worldwide. No floor. No cap.
New capital gains treatment
Stocks only. Employer equity is taxed as pay. Personal sales use the company’s highest ratio.
People own land, not corporations
Ban non-individual ownership. Double the tax with each extra property. Rebate the primary home.
A two-category import tax
Top 500 firms pay their global disparity ratio. Other firms pay a country-level disparity rate.
End Super PACs. Name every donor.
Only U.S. citizens fund political ads. Every ad links to a real-time public donor list.
Radical legislative transparency
One subject per bill. Three days to read it, or read it aloud. Plain English, or it is void.
A peaceful protest to show we are ready for change
We stand together, peacefully, and do not spend any money at corporate-owned businesses on days that end in an 8. On the 8th, 18th, and 28th each month, make a conscious effort to shop local and support small business instead of the monopolies.
The author
Benjamin J. Branham
I am not a politician. I am not an academic economist. I am a problem-solver who spent two decades on this question after years of executive-level escalations at Sprint and T-Mobile. In 2022 I launched Pause for the Cause. This is the solution.
The journey