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S4: We Can Reclaim the Public Gains of America

We can reclaim the Public Gains of America to regenerate our American Life. Let’s say we can re-public our Public Gains. That’s how we renew Public Knowledge, Public Investment, Public Resources, and Public Extensions. That’s how we meet American standards of equal freedom, equal security, and equal opportunity. It’s how we keep the promise of the American Dream.

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Americans can say, “Enough!” to the out-of-control, extreme Money Counts of elite, entitled Counts. Contributing Americans can renew the promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, free from the corruption of extreme money, as we:

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Re-public what has been taken from America. When Counts collect so much of America’s Public Gains as Free Income for themselves, America is left with crushing national debt, unhealthy people and natural resources, sub-standard public options, and faltering research and education. We can do better when we re-public our Public Gains.

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Boost the efficiency of our engine of prosperity. Counts may know how to efficiently collect Free Income. But Contributing Americans know that we need to efficiently cycle Public Gains back into Public Knowledge, Public Investment, Public Resources, and Public Extensions. We can trim waste to generate prosperity for all Americans.

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Regenerate American Life. The regeneration of American Life is about keeping the promise of the American Dream alive for young Americans. We can deliver on America’s potential. The measure of success is whether all Americans can live our lives at the American standards of equal freedom, equal security, and equal opportunity.

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On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Big Woods Declaration (BWD) renews the call for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, free from the corruption of extreme money.

The BWD is a First Amendment petition to the American people and our government. It is not limited to any political party or group.

The BWD is a total of 60 pages: the Core Declaration (4 pages), the 13 Notes, the 27 Dangers to America, and the 16 Solutions for America.

The BWD may be shared and reused under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. View a copy of this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

The BWD was created without the use of any AI, opinion polling, or focus groups. The BWD draws on many core American ideas as well as the work of Thorstein Veblen, America’s visionary from the Big Woods of Minnesota.

All photos in the BWD were taken in the Big Woods. The BWD was framed by Erik Christopher Sahlin with Alyssa Beth Wulf.