How You Can Help

Creating the reforms needed for the United States is possibly only at the local level of government. It is too difficult to try to get meaningful reform at the national level when working with four-year cycles. Reform needs to start in a town or village and spread like grass roots to other towns and villages in the state and country.

What people refer to as a "problem" is probably no more than a lack of understanding of the problem, and once the problem is fully understood, the solution often becomes crystal clear. The problem of the economy for a small town or village is something that I believe I understand, and I have developed the reforms needed to solve the "problem", and to do so without any new legislation. We don't need any new legislation to cure the problem at the local level. All we need to do is get the residents to learn about the available reforms, and to get them interested in implementing the reforms. The benefit to the residents and small businesses of the town will be prosperity for the town and its residents. This seems perfectly clear.

The basic four reforms are

(i) having a town lawyer function as a "town attorney general";

(ii) creating a tuition-free equivalency college for residents only, to give them the instruction they need to compete in this changing world;

(iii) setting up an area-wide payroll administrator to enable small businesses and self-employeds to hire employees when desired, and without the paperwork and other regulatory burdens associated with payroll; and

(iv) putting the offered "tasks" and "goods" of each resident into a task marketplace database and marketing this database to the 25-mile area surrounding the town, to sell some of the available time of the town's residents. I estimate that a town of 10,000 residents has about $120,000,000 in unsold hours each year. We should be able to sell (at an average of about $30/hour) at least 25% of these presently unsold hours.

Here is how I made my calculation: Let’s take a town of 10,000 population, with 4,000 employable residents. Assume that there are an average of 20 hours per week of available time for each of the 4,000 employable residents. This amounts to 1,000 hours per year times 4,000, which is 4 million hours per year. Part-time “task” work should bring in about $30/hour. For 4,000,000 hours this would amount to $120,000,000 per year in unsold time for the town of 10,000 population. [end of calculation]

I need your help to find a group of persons in any town or village in NY wanting to create prosperity for the town/village. Can you get me an invitation to address your local elected leaders or, better than that, to speak at a town hall meeting, to explain what can be done to bring prosperity to your town.

Please email me at carlpers2@gmail.com or call me at 212-307-4444 to discuss what you can do to bring prosperity to your town or village.

Carl E. Person
Candidate for NYS Attorney General - 2010