Middletownianism

Middletownianism is the precedent for the Self-Insert of Great-clarinet. It is a middling left, spiritually Anglo-Catholic, consentez-a-faire social democracy. Its civic neutrality is born of his desire for a government structure to balance man’s tyrannical-autocratic and liberal democratic-anarchic wishes (tyrannos and demokrator). It is culturally third position, advocating more democratic control over technical progress and social progress, but also seeing whatever traditions may lie behind apparent “novelty/ies” as worth knowing about. It is diplomatically micro-patriotic, alter-nationalist and interregnalist.

His all-time favorite negative phrase toward other ideologies is “I don’t hate you, but I am very mad at you”. He sees active hatred as an extremely stupid emotion to have, making people hurt others for not even apparent gain of their own. His all time most maddening ideologies are individualists who claim to be on the bottom of the political compass. They madden him so much because they fundamentally defy the origins of the idea of liberal democracy in sociocentric Ancient Greece and the title of an absolute monarch as “The First Individual in History”. He will not hesitate to enlighten them into aspiring toward isonomy.

Overall
Middletownianism is on middling left-wing on the economic scale, and his economics overall are described as consentez-a-faire social distributist economics combined with georgist, and social-democratic policies, willing to protect the working class' well being as well as ensure equity and happiness amongst the populace whilst ensuring an economy strong enough to sustain those very things, the reason why he supports equity is because he believes it can be beneficial to society overall, as it emphasizes the need of cooperation, a key component to why human societies have been able to survive, and it's general promotion of happiness, in which he sees this as something humanity seeks, whilst the end goals of his might be idealistic to some he would adopt some pragmatist points as well in order to achieve this end, as whilst he understands that greed is an evil that must be shunned, it cannot be rid of due to it being an ideal sadly, as ideals are but abstract and are products of the mind and therefore cannot be removed, but what he can do is significantly limit it's influence, although he is against the idea of a large wealth gap between the rich and the poor, he also sees the total equality of outcome to be somewhat foolish and utopian, and prefers equality of opportunity, in which people are to be given the chance to be happy, because of this, he rejects the solutions of communism and conventionally-regulated market socialism or welfare capitalism and instead prefers to be a consentez-a-faire social distributist, though he is also willing to adopt he does not know what else so as to be more flexible in options in achieving the society he would envision.

[[File:ML.png]] Command Economy [[File:Keynes.png]] or Free market? [[File:Marketsoc.png]]
In a case like this, Middletownianism is preferrably a mixed market economy that leans towards markets, He takes some elements of economic planning since he is supportive on the equal distribution of resources but doesn't support an economy primarily based off state economic planning as it can be stagnant due to it being dependent over the government for spreading goods and can lead to it being overly bureaucratic at times, thus he adopts privatish planning and elements of a market economy to prevent such stagnation, as he believes that it can ensure efficiency through independent enterprises spreading goods through the promotion of the availability of multiple brands, however, there should be measures if a market economy would truly be efficient, thus, he would apply anti-trust, anti-usury, and consumer protection laws, as well as some supervision not only to ensure the survivability of the competitive spirit on the market, but to prevent exploitation as well.

[[File:Welf.png]] The welfare state
Middletownianism Advocates for a strong, Universalist welfare state, Believing that what people need like water, food, shelter, and healthcare are deserving of easy access as he cares for the well being of the people, although he believes that most of the welfare should go to people struggling on a socioeconomic level such as lower class citizens with a Job and those in poverty.

Whilst he prefers welfare to private charity, he will allow private charities to exist provided they are not a scam.

Healthcare
Middletownianism is an avid supporter of Universal and Free healthcare, for it greatly fits in with his beliefs in egalitarianism, however, citizens should still pay for medicine in order to cover restocking costs, and that those who must drink, smoke, or overeat should still pay for surgery, since they are the ones at fault for ending up in those conditions, He also believes that one must be a citizen/permanent resident should he receive free healthcare, He wishes to increase funding towards the healthcare industry

He also wishes to prevent people from abusing the system and that people are expected to take measures of responsibility, he does this through methods such as: He also wishes to adequately fund and staff the healthcare system as well as make the primary care services of the healthcare system owned fully by the public (although some specialist services are allowed to be provided privately).
 * Fining people for a significant amount to those who miss out on two or more GP appointments
 * Charging people that are abusing drugs, Obese, Smoking, and being Alcoholics for the treatments that are responsible for their horrid conditions.

[[File:Synd.png]] Worker Rights
Middletownianism Believes that Workers are Important for society and are very contributive to it, therefore, their well being is also important, With this, he supports the promotion of self-managed worker cooperatives with the elements of semi-direct workplace democracy with state intervention primarily in the interests of the workers and their employees akin to Democratic Corporatism and Titoist Yugoslavia's self-governing socialism, he is also promotive of good working conditions, as he believes that toxic working conditions make workers less productive due to wage slavery and is the reason why horrid movements such as antiwork exist.

Unions
As he is supportive of Worker Rights, he also supports unionization as well, most especially in interparochialized (i. e. representatively nationalized)/heavily regulated enterprises, but are also allowed in smaller ones, he will also recommend them, although they are not a requirement, as Unionized workers can fight exploitation and gain strength that is not possible for individual workers, he also supports widespread ownership in major industries and essential services.

He is sympathetic the armament of workers, as Karl Marx put it: "Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered: any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary." as an armed workforce can fight against the government (or weaken it) should it take a turn for the worse and defend their rights.

He wishes to add an amendment making it a constitutional right to join a union, although this will only apply to major industries and big businesses representative with unions present. Small and medium businesses may become representative or unionized if they wish to do so, but it won’t be required, although one will have full rights to join a union, believing that it is a worker exercising their right to work, and such unions aren’t present in countries like North Korea. Union-busting would become an unconstitutional act.

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In this scenario, the amount of regulations an enterprise would have to face is depending on it's size, on larger ones, they will be subject to heavy regulations/interparochialization in the cases where it is an essential service and therefore owned by both the state and by unions, whilst small to medium ones would be subject to only a little or a modest amount of them and are allowed to be privatized, however, there would be some small scale supervision and that unions would be granted the allowance to be formed as well as workplace democracy being implemented, although they wouldn't be really required for those small to medium businesses.

On to the topic of farms, he is an advocate for land reform and wants to have farmlands publicly owned to redistribute food for the poor, but will allow some private farms so one can grow his/her own crops and store his/her own food to prepare for a national food shortage just in case, in that matter, he fuses both communalism and individualism, as he believes that not only should food not be hoarded by a select few and allow the people to unite for cooperation on labour and civil matters, but allow individual liberty and prevent one from losing self-reliance in the event that misfortune falls upon them.

[[File:Geokitty.png]] Housing
Middletownianism is sympathetic to Georgism in this regard, believing that the house should belong to it's occupier, and advocates for a land value tax alternately to a property tax, and a assessing a universal basic value for the purpose of either tax, in this regard, he opposes propertarianism and landlordism, as he sees that landlords could be but lazy land hoarding exploiters who contribute rather little to society but for having to pay property taxes.

He is also thinks that homelessness is a major problem, so he combats this through the construction of government built houses that are to be suited to provide the basic needs for a citizen, although despite the rather anti-landlord and anti-homelessness sentiment, he also believes that if a person refuses to work, that person wouldn't get those very benefits.

Trade
Middletownianism is balanced towards free trade and protectionism, he supports trade between nations but also supports some sort of protectionism in the form of some tariffs, the reason why is because whilst he sees trade between nations as beneficial due to allowing economic growth, he only sees it as beneficial if it's mutual and not one sided, and he doesn't like the idea of unrestricted free trade as it can allow foreign dominance that can discourage local production and thus allow foreign powers to take advantage by treading on the sovereignty of a nation economically therefore subjugating it by making it in debt on those very powers which offsets the benefits of said economic growth (This is also true for free trade within individual nations), he doesn't like the ideas of extreme protectionism and total self-reliance either, as it can prevent economic growth as seen in North Korea.

Wealth
As it was said before, Middletownianism wishes for economic equity and thus wishes to lower the wealth gap and get rid of both the extremes of the rich and poor scale as with a small middle class, this can lead to a massive disparity of power, he is alright with some being richer than others provided the wealth they gained is through ethical methods and hard work, he is tolerant towards millionaires but not billionaires, as the wealth of billionaires are gained through shady methods, thus, the wealth earned by those who done shady methods shall be redistributed and be given to healthcare, welfare, environmental programs, infrastructure, housing, and so on.

A program similar to the share the wealth programs of Huey Long combined with some elements of Duterte's Ten-point agenda would be implemented, he would implement a wealth tax on the wealthy and thus redistribute the wealth gained by those exploitative to help the poor through the improvement and funding of welfare, education, healthcare, housing infrastructure, and rural development programs, as well as use some of that wealth for technological and scientific development.

Taxation
As he believes that extreme inequality can put a strain to society, he wishes to prevent this through the implementation of high level taxation, the following taxes and their usages are examples on how he would prevent such problems: those taxes would be used to reduce economic inequality, fund the social safety net, and for the reduction of debt to a tolerable and acceptable level.
 * Progressive income tax: prevent the negative effects of wealth accumulation
 * Land Value tax: put a halt on land hoarding
 * Carbon tax: incentivize companies to be less carbon-oriented and reduce pollution
 * Minimum Corporate tax rate: prevention of capital flight
 * Value tax: raises revenue and raises the difficulty of tax evasion
 * Digital service tax: greatly strengthen the difficulty of tax evasion done by Multinational corporations.

As for sales tax, for true goods such as groceries, it shall be kept allowed to charge to buyers, but will be converted into a fine to seller for everything else, a table shall be shown on how Middletownianism would apply the sales tax which it shall allow localities to set for themselves:

True goods: Potential and Actual Ills: He is sympathetic towards the implementation of a 15-dollar minimum wage as for people to make a living wage, but it may potentially force companies to fire employees to prevent bankruptancy which can lead to unemployment, so just in case for the time being the minimum wage would be around 12-13 dollars, 11-12 dollars on small companies.
 * Water and nutritious drinks
 * Household and Hygenic supplies that contain few suspected toxins
 * medicine,
 * Nutritious food
 * School and Work supplies
 * Furniture
 * Unhealthy food and drinks
 * Plastic materials that aren't at least 50% biodegradable/reusable
 * Non-medical Marijuana
 * Alcohol
 * Tobacco

Usury
Middletownianism wishes to strengthen protection against exorbitant banking charges as well as usurious interest rates and start a tough crackdown on Usury and punish individuals, companies, and most especially corporations that dare do such acts, he will also force those who do such like major companies to pay their fair share of taxes.

the punishment of such crime will range from a prison sentence to the death penalty depending on how severe the crime, the latter of which will be reserved on those who commit human trafficking and anything related to such, but require the impeachment of judges who abuse criminal justice to try to get away with domestic terrorism themselves.

Overall
Middletownianism considers himself at the middle of the road in terms of authority, He promotes a government structure to balance man’s tyrannical-autocratic and liberal democratic-anarchic wishes (tyrannos and demokrator) not only for order, but also to protect and respect civil liberties as well, in fact promoting the idea that a truly strong government inherently respect civil liberties and authorities, he's neither a fan of totalitarianism nor an advocate of anarchism, as he views the former as not only narcissistic and immoral but also overly bureaucratic and inefficient, and the latter being incredibly chaotic and idealistic.