to Hillary Clinton, Mrs. President

to Hillary Clinton, Mrs. President

fiction
edward w pritchard

An ominous movement of peoples seems to be developing as young ambitious refugees walk and float from their troubled homelands to havens of opportunity. Embolden by the internet refugees cross borders worldwide in search of a chance at prosperity. Meanwhile in many well off countries on earth the elderly live in poverty and in most third world countries women and children constantly live on the verge of being below the poverty line. Both situations appear to be getting worse.

What can America do additionally to help alleviate worldwide poverty?

 Independent of foreign aide, military aid, or humanitarian aid the next President, hopefully a Woman of compassion and reason, could initiate a 1% off the top surtax to fight worldwide poverty imposed on any future tax payer aide to Wall Street and regional banks such as the 2008 TARP program.

Should any tax payer financing in the future be provided to failing banks in any circumstance at any time at below market interest rates [ such as the 2008 TARP program] then a 1% penalty would  be taken off the top and distributed to designated religious and charitable organizations duly qualified to fairly disperse said funds.

Whatever alleged straights the future TARP receipts presented themselves to be in the 1% would be mandatory.

The program should be created in boom times so that no in power bank CEO's or boosters in Government would object to the program. We leave the details and implementation in your capable hands Mrs President. Should poverty be lower than normal at the point in future time in question then the money could be partially dispersed to handicapped persons world wide.