The Research
Every plank researched in the open: the numbers and where they come from, who profits from the status quo, and the strongest case against us.
Each plank of the platform has a document behind it. They follow one shape: the claim as we state it, the problem with sourced numbers, who profits from the status quo, the proposal, the evidence for and against, who wins and who loses, the fiscal impact, and the opposition’s best case put as strongly as we can put it.
These are working documents, published as written. They are marked draft because they are drafts — unverified figures are labelled unverified, open questions are left open, and where a plank’s own wording overstates the case, the document says so. That is the point of publishing them.
The platform, plank by plank
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Policy 01: Adopt national as-of-right building codes.
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Policy 02: Eliminate payroll tax paid by employer.
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Policy 03: IRS to automate income tax filing.
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Policy 04: Disintermediate healthcare and employment.
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Policy 05: Remove the requirement to blend ethanol into gasoline. Grow food instead.
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Policy 06: Fund K–12 education nationally. Allow local control.
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Policy 07: Make solar noon noon. Make midnight midnight.
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Policy 08: Eliminate HSA, FSA, and 401k.
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Policy 09: Bring back bankruptcy, including on student loans.
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Policy 10: Eliminate software patents. Reform the patents system.
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Policy 11: Require states to use automated congressional districting.
Tax filing, in depth
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The lifetime cost of mandatory tax filing to one American
Quantitative backing for the April project hero framing. Source of record for the per-return burden figures is ../../docs/research/policy-03-tax-filing.md; where this document departs from that doc, the reason is stated and the research doc needs correcting (…
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Policy 03: Calls to action for a standalone tax-filing site
Answers question 1 of the Next steps in policy-03-tax-filing.md ("Should this be its own website / fundraise / attribution loop?") and specifies the conversion surface for it. Content and app structure are out of scope here — this doc is only about what we as…
How movements win
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Strategy: A Movement to Avert Fiscal Collapse
A working strategy document — not a finished plan. The goal here is to map what historical evidence tells us about how outsider-led radical economic reform actually succeeds, and to draw honest implications for the project.
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Case Study: Estonia 1992 — Mart Laar's Reform Playbook
The closest historical analogue to "young outsider with no political background runs a country out of fiscal collapse and wins." Estonia in 1992 had hyperinflation peaking around 1,069–1,100%, an empty treasury, no functioning currency of its own, and a discr…
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Case Study: Solidarity (1976–1989) — How a Movement Actually Organized
Solidarity is the strongest historical example of a non-elite movement that started with effectively nothing, grew to 10 million members within a year, was crushed and driven underground for nearly a decade, survived, and ended up running the country and rema…
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Case Study: Government Contests as a Way to Get Open Source Software Written
The question: has any government ever run a contest to get people to write open source software that meets the government's own needs?
Method
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Policy Research Prompt
This is the reusable prompt for researching one plank of the platform. Run it once per policy. Each run produces one file in this folder, named policy-NN-slug.md (e.g. policy-01-housing.md), numbered to match the plank order in the README and on the homepage.
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