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Alanna Hartzok is the 2014 Democratic Party candidate for Congress for PA District 9. Wealth inequality is a major concern of her campaign as she puts forth principles and policies of economic democracy and how to build a fair, strong and more locally based economy aligned with the “triple bottom line” of “people, planet, profits.”

Knowing that the power to tax is the power to create or destroy, a major focus of her advocacy is to remove taxes from the “real” economy of human labor and productive capital while placing the tax base on the nature and society produced “surplus value” (commons rent) of natural resources and land sites. She also supports a tax on financial speculation, reform of the Federal Reserve system, and state and community owned banks. Billions of dollars of federal subsidies to multi-national corporations should also be removed in order to create a truly laisse- faire economy in the original meaning of “fair field and no favor.” She strongly supports This tax approach encourages and strengthens local-based businesses and small farms to be optimally productive and sustainable. Her idea of good governance is that federal level policies must favor and support the “real economy” at the local level.

In 1993, she initiated tax reform legislation in Pennsylvania that was signed into law in 1998 oroviding a new option for local tax reform to the 958 boroughs in Pennsylvania.

Alanna Hartzok is Co-Director of Earth Rights Institute and UN/ECOSOC NGO Representative for the International Union for Land Value Taxation, an NGO working for “commons rent” policies. She is also affiliated with the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, an organization devoted to the ethics and policies of 19th century Philadelphia-born political-economist Henry George and the work of current researchers, scholars and advocates working for economic democracy. Her book, The Earth Belongs to Everyone, received The Radical Middle Book Award. In 2011 Alanna was given the International Earth Day Award by the Earth Society Foundation. In 2001 she was a Green Party candidate for the US Congress.

For more about how the Hartzok for Congress campaign is building a movement for participatory democracy and new economic policies that address wealth inequality go to her campaign website at: www.hartzokforcongress.com

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