TDRHism

TDRHism is a variant of Liberal Conservatism and the de-facto ideology of ThatDudeRightHere. It is economically center-right, Civic Nationalist, slightly statist, slightly Confessionalist with a bit of  secularism, and culturally center-right (with a bit of progressivism). It seeks to establish European-style Christian Democracy and  One-Nation Conservatism in the United States.

Although following the Chicagoan school of economics and somewhat of the  Third Way, TDRHism doesn't refer to himself as a  Neoliberal, instead he prefers to stick more with  Classical Liberals.

Beliefs
TDRHism believes in what most Americans would call "compassionate conservatism", meaning that he's a more moderate conservative, similar to a Rockefeller Republican. He's slightly patriotic, leaning more towards civic nationalism. He believes in a mostly free-market economy with slight regulations in order to prevent bad stuff from happening in the economy, an example would be the exploitation of workers. He believes in a mix of Chicagoan economics and  Keynesian, meaning he is somewhat of a  Neo-Keynesian.

Philosophical Beliefs
TDRHism is, philosophically a Liberal Conservative. He believes that while humans are naturally tribalistic and hierarchal, are more rational than emotional, and utopian ideologies never worked in practice, he also believes in some more liberal policies such as the enlightenment.

He also follows Petersonism, as he believes that humans have free will and should focus on improving themselves before they blame others.

Overview
TDRHism believes in a mixture of Chicagoan economics and  Keynesianism, thus creating what is called  Social Capitalism. He believes in a mainly free-market economy with some regulations in it, so that both workers and consumers will be protected.

He is, despite being somewhat regulationist and interventionist, not a socialist, as he's very skeptical of socialism and its variants, seeing that most versions of it were massive failures every time they were attempted. However, he doesn't hate market socialism, believing that co-operatives are useful for the economy.

Fiscal Policy
TDRHism believes that most government funds should be spent on welfare programs. These include things like healthcare, housing, education, and infrastructure. He also believes that a centralized bank should exist and private banks can exist as well, even though they would be subject to regulations. However, he believes that governments shouldn't spend outside of their means, with budget and debt being kept lower than 60% of the national GDP.

On taxes, he believes in a mixture of flat and progressive. This is because although he wants taxes to go up for how wealthy you are, he also wants to divide it into groups, all of which will be taxed the same. The groups are:
 * Very poor (will be offered the most tax breaks, and will receive the most benefits from taxes)
 * Poor (will be offered tax breaks a lot and will be receiving a lof of benefits, but not as much as the people on the very poor classification)
 * Middle class (in between poor and rich, and will be taxed slightly more than poor and slightly less than rich)
 * Rich (will be taxed more than middle class but not as much as very rich)
 * Very rich (will be taxed the most)

As for other taxes other than an income tax, his system will have:
 * Sales tax (abolished for necessities, like food, but will be for other things, and will be higher for luxury goods)
 * Corporate tax (Rebated for green innovation companies)
 * Land value tax (not high emphasis on it)
 * Land use tax (also not a very high emphasis on it)
 * Capital gains tax
 * Carbon tax
 * Digital services tax
 * Import tax
 * Recreational substances tax (for alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other recreational drugs)
 * Financial services tax (a small 0.1-0.5% charge on every trade of financial assets)
 * Currecny transaction tax

Corporate tax evasion would also be highly illegal on his system, with companies being forced to pay tax on the profits they gain, or else they lose their business licenses. Legal firms that assist in coprorate tax avoidance will also be illegal and they will suffer harsh penalties.

Banking
TDRHism, like Arctoism, believes in the independence of the central bank and wants to keep inflation levels below 5% as much as possible. He rejects money creation just for funding fiscal expenditure, but in times of recession and severe economic deflation, he supports quantitative easing of money creation.

Private banks will be allowed to exist, albeit with some regulations, such as all trades of financial securities being subject to the financial services tax and all short term currency exchange will also be subject to the currency transaction tax.

He supports crypto-currency such as Bitcoin, and supports plans to move on from physical currency, or fiat money, to a purely digital currency. This is because he feels that digital transactions are much easier to trace than those involving fiat money, and thus it will be easier for police to catch tax evaders, speculators, drug dealers, and various other criminals.

Public or Private Ownership?
TDRHism's economic model is a social capitalist one, and is thus a mixed capitalist one. He believes that natural monopolies should be state-owned and run without any concern for profit. Instead of politicians running these, technical experts and specialists will run them. These services in question include:
 * Electricity
 * Water and sanitation systems
 * Most public transportation systems (ex. bus systems and railways)
 * Mail services
 * Health services
 * Certain TV channels, such as some news outlets
 * Government-run software and algorithms

However, he believes that the larger the state is, the harder it will be to regulate those. He is also aware of competition and private enterprise, thus for large states, he will make sure that the state takes care to maintain the ease of doing business and red tape laws and wasteful bureaucracy will be cut to the bare minimum.

Children and People with Disabilities
TDRHism supports something similar to Poland's 500+ program, or a universal child benefit. This is because he believes that every child should be given the opportunity to succeed as well as the system is useful for combatting the low birthrates in most western nations.

As for people with disabilities, they will receive the most welfare benefits of his economic system, along with the very poor.

Unemployment
For the unemployed, he supports the Danish A-Kasse system, also known as flexicurity, where a worker voluntarily joins a trade union managed fund for a year while they are working, and then receives 90% of their previous income for a maximum of two years when they are unemployed, so long as they are actively looking for a job or gaining employable skills.

The reason why he thinks this is a good system is because it promotes personal responsibility, gives the worker and their family more financial security, and allows employers to hire and fire workers easily, which creates low levels of unemployment.

For anyone who has not previously enrolled in a fund yet, he supports what is called a subsistence level supplementary income benefit, also known as a Revenu de solidarité active (RSA), which is currently implemented in France. This is a welfare benefit aimed for the unemployed to return to work. It also depends on claimants that are looking for work as well, and is gradually reduced as income from work increases. This is to prevent any claimants from falling into the benefit trap. He believes that those who are able to work but also refuse should be denied welfare from the state until they show that they are ready to work. This is due to the belief that personal prosperity also comes from the want of a person to improve themselves and "stand up straight with their shoulders back". Also, those who are heavy drinkers, drug addicts, heavy smokers or morbidly obese will be denied welfare until they show personal initiative to improve their own situation.

Pensions
For workplace pensions, he believes that it would be much simpler if the employer contribution was removed, with companies paying more taxes and with the proceeds going towards state contribution to retirement benefits.

Trade Unions
He supports collective social bargaining, with empolyment advertising agencies by law requiring to red-list companies that do not pay unions the rates of pay.

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