Tax Collection

Reform policies is the term used to narrow the gap between budgeted, projected, expected, and actual, collected, realized taxation and other revenue figures. The technology exist and must be made available, the personnel trained and to be trained must be employed, to track and account for every cent, every transaction, with sufficient redundancies to protect the integrity and the efficiency of the country's main sources of Government’s Revenue. Taxation and other fees charged on earnings by individuals with a birth certificate, by groups registered as legal entities, on trade between such individuals and/or groups, and on holdings capable of appreciation.

Management Responsibilities

Still seen by many, as it use to be, a master in the master/slave relationship, but management has evolved into functions, to plan and execute a successful mission. The term "Management" does not refer to the highly trained and experienced people involved but to the roles. The staff, which management instructs and depend on, must consist of highly productive and motivated people. The investors, which approve the strategic plan and receive periodic reports and results, are person who, take the risk, but need a return on their investment. The mission is designed by management to bring together and benefit productive staff and investment resources.

Sovereign Wealth Funds

What should have been done, still needs to be done. Policies, legally enshrined, to save a minimum percentage of annual revenues in addition to a percentage of collected surpluses, when applicable. Invest these savings from royalty on non-renewable depleting resources and materials in a fund with long-term objectives and, at the same time, invest savings from surpluses achieved in previous years in a fund with short and medium term objectives. Minimizing the politics in a country's economic performance, by establishing firm rules, terms and conditions for withdrawals or other financial usages, is crucial. Such funds should only be used to develop export driven industries which will earn foreign exchange and/or reduce debt servicing in future years.

Investors and Employers

The true employers in society are individuals with a small savings account, having bills to pay and living within their narrow financial means. They are not hard nose greedy rich people as often portrayed by the media or enemies of workers’ unions engaged in unfair tactics during employment negotiations. The public impression of employers is one of a bully not listening or concerned with reasons but forcing the most out of their workers, that may more describe management, and the true employers do not directly hire and fire such management. Management’s role is to please both employers and employees. Employees expect the best working conditions with fair remuneration packages. And employers expect a safe place to put funds and receive a competitive yield to live on.

Knowledge into Wisdom

Born with a natural curiosity about the surrounding environment and a burning desire to fit in, children emulate and mimic adults with an inherent sense of belonging. Society must foster and instill that genuine love of learning from a very early age, allow an earlier start to decision-making and dream-structuring, share the benefits of intelligence across human communities, and continuously be a highly skilled and wise population. Inventions and innovations will soon erode unskilled jobs, leaving basic tasks to technology driven devices, operators and mechanics. Society will adapt by engaging training applications suitable to every type of learning and testing to encourage, achieve and recognize individual skill measurements.

Negotiations

A win-win situation is always the mission in any negotiation with all parties parting under friendly terms. Gathering information on each party’s abilities and capabilities, managing times and deadlines with actionable penalties, understanding past opportunities taken and missed, and the suffering incurred cause by sabotage or opposing positions, and explaining the future vision with and without agreement. Negotiations are, at its very simple core, whether addressing international trade agreements, commercial arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, employment contracts or, even, personal relationships, about uniting or dividing.

Common Enemy

The human condition strives on disputes, competition, conflicts and arguments even where none exist. Disputes over the control of resources, Competition as a problem solver rather than collaboration, Conflict embroiling owners vs. workers, Arguments about the best use of profits. This is all based on egos, selfishness and greed, mostly executed by men supported by mothers, wives and daughters, who enjoy the benefits but refuse to ask any pertinent questions until negatively impacted. Clearly a common enemy is needed to solve all problems, bringing all creeds, races, religions, rich, poor, owners and workers, together, to promote peace and stop the human on human abuse. Many fictional works have already depicted such scenarios; alien invasion, comet collision, overheating of the earth's core, rise of the machines, disease, famine, water woes, begging the question, does reality truly have to follow art?

Water Woes

Governments are obligated and must protect, by means of, licensing, regulating and testing, its public waters, quality and quantity, for human piped or bottled consumption, animal and plant farming, industrial usage, waste water treatment and flood management, to preserve and enhance living standards. License geographically, natural or man-made water courses, collection dams and wells, and runoffs points, to qualified and competent operators. Regulate such operations as to their professional practices; engineering, procurement, maintenance and financial, to justify the operation’s pricing. Testing on a frequent but random basis the water quality assigned for specific distribution categories and measuring various factors, such as; rainfall per area, treatment procedures and runoff rates, to justify system improvements, for example; desalination, better purifying components and dredging works.

Food; the world’s strongest Currency

Currency Reserves or Central Banks utilize monetary policies, such as; the movement of interest rates by which registered financial institutions can lend to or borrow from the reserve bank, the removal of old money or the printing and release of new money into the system, the expression of moral persuasion and more, to control their currency and their economy. Many of the major currency reserve banks, with interest rates approaching zero, have chosen to implement programs of quantitative easing; by purchasing government and quasi-government backed securities on the open market in order to lower interest rates and increase the money supply, not by printing new banknotes, but by flooding financial institutions with capital in an effort to promote increased lending and liquidity. It should also be noted that, many economists are speaking about Helicopter Money; where central banks are considering releasing money directly into individuals’ bank accounts to encourage spending, investments and job creation.

Eco-City

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‘Eco-City’ is designed, as a show piece to the world, to ecologically, socially, economically, electronically, effectively and efficiently utilize living space, consisting of its productive tower surrounded by housing and social facilities and sitting on acres of geologically tested bedrock lands, constructed, horizontally and vertically, to withstand earthquakes measuring over 7 on the Richter scale and winds exceeding 100 knots.

The Caribbean Region and CARICOM Member States have all been targeted through its political leaders within the last three years, by a consortium of Corporate and Institutional Investors, to accommodate an experiment in futuristic city design. International Corporations bringing conceptual products for real world testing and application before a global launch. Financial institutions inclusive of pension plans, retaining ownership of the system modern designs as deployed to improve existing cities.