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WE THE PEOPLE PLATFORM — READING PATH: POLICY PRACTITIONERS
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Download type:  Audience Path
Group ID:       policy
Generated:      May 12, 2026
Documents:      6

DESCRIPTION
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Best for legislators' staff, agency analysts, congressional research staff,
and others working on potential legislative or regulatory implementation. This
path emphasizes household-level impact and aggregate distributional analysis.
(Contains 6 documents in recommended reading order.)

DOCUMENTS INCLUDED
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  1. We The People — Platform Manifesto
     02_Vision_and_Communication/02_We_The_People_Platform.docx
     Best for: First-time readers wanting the integrated vision. Anyone
     evaluating the platform's overall coherence. The integrated vision
     document that introduces the three primary pillars (Community
     Contribution Plan, Empirical Wage Floors, Sovereign Education Fund) and
     the architecture supporting them. Includes the platform's foundational
     principle (“when I do well, we all do well”), the operational design of
     the cost-based pricing framework with field-of-study granularity, the
     two-channel disbursement architecture, the age-30 reversion mechanism,
     and the integration of all primary pillars as a single coherent system.
     This is the document most readers should encounter first. When to read:
     Read first if you want to understand what the platform actually proposes.
     Read again after engaging with the technical documents to see how the
     pieces fit together.

  2. What This Means For You — Side-by-Side Tax Comparisons by Filer Category
     05_Analytical_Framing/05_What_This_Means_For_You.docx
     Best for: Readers wanting the side-by-side tax comparison broken down by
     filer category (single filer, single parent, MFJ (Married Filing Jointly)
     no kids, MFJ with children, high earners) at multiple income levels.
     Updated in v2.11 with expanded Note on Scope section explaining what
     these tables include, what they exclude (state income tax, out-of-pocket
     medical, childcare costs - all excluded for variability reasons), and how
     they relate to the median household example in Does This Raise Taxes. The
     four detailed-breakdown 12-row tables and five income-scaling tables
     (covering ~70 data rows) all use consistent federal-channel scope and
     mature steady-state treatment. The savings figures here are conservative
     for households that experience savings in the excluded categories (state
     tax, OOP medical, childcare). Filer categories: Single Filer, Single
     Parent (Head of Household), MFJ no kids, MFJ with 2 kids, MFJ with 4
     kids, plus high-earner scenarios at $500K and above showing the surcharge
     architecture. When to read: Read after the Manifesto and Does This Raise
     Taxes when you want to see how the platform affects your specific filer
     category and income range. Most comprehensive of the citizen-facing
     tax-comparison documents.

  3. Per-Citizen Benefits and Costs Across the Deployment Timeline
     05_Analytical_Framing/05_Per_Citizen_Benefits_and_Costs.docx
     Best for: Citizens, advocates, journalists, and political organizers
     asking what the platform delivers to individual American households — and
     what it costs them — at each deployment milestone. Translates the
     platform's federal-program-scale numbers into per-household impact at six
     deployment milestones (Year 1 launch, Year 5 Path A expansion, Year 7
     universal Path A, Year 12 Sovereign Fund at scale, Year 20 pillars
     mature, Year 30 steady state) for seven distinct household types:
     low-income single ($35K), middle-income single ($75K), low-income family
     with kids ($55K), middle-income family with kids ($110K), upper-middle
     family with kids ($200K), retiree on fixed income ($45K), and wealthy
     household ($500K, $5M+ assets). Establishes that a substantial majority
     of American households experience net positive impact at every milestone,
     with benefits growing as more pillars come online and the Sovereign
     Fund's coverage scales from 5% (Year 1) to 65% (Year 30) of platform
     commitments. Documents the structurally-progressive funding architecture:
     bottom 80% of income distribution receives net positive impact at every
     milestone; wealthy households (top 1-2% by net worth) experience net
     negative impact through wealth tax exposure but receive the same
     universal services as everyone else. Includes detailed methodology,
     conservative estimation choices, geographic variance acknowledgments, and
     political coalition implications. When to read: Read this if you want to
     understand what the platform delivers to specific American households at
     specific years. It's the citizen-facing translation that turns aggregate
     federal numbers into political coalition arithmetic. Most directly useful
     for advocacy and accountability conversations.

  4. Federal Fiscal Impact Analysis
     05_Analytical_Framing/05_Federal_Fiscal_Impact_Analysis.docx
     Best for: Policy professionals asking the question every serious reviewer
     asks within minutes: what does this do to the federal deficit? Closes the
     consolidated fiscal-picture gap identified in v2.10 audience verification
     testing. Provides the consolidated picture of federal fiscal impact
     across all platform commitments and revenue sources. Headline numbers at
     mature steady state (Year 30): $4.2 trillion in new federal commitments,
     $1.5 trillion in absorbed existing programs (Medicare, Medicaid
     working-age, ACA subsidies), $3.6 trillion in new federal revenue
     (payroll contributions, modified income tax, Sovereign Fund disbursements
     covering ~65% at maturity), net impact of approximately $900 billion per
     year deficit reduction relative to current state. Sensitivity analysis to
     Sovereign Fund returns: 4% real (Norway-equivalent) yields ~$400B
     reduction; 2% real approximately neutral. Transition years addressed
     honestly: cumulative $8-12 trillion in additional federal borrowing over
     25 years before mature steady state. Comparison to Congressional Budget
     Office (CBO) projected current-law trajectory ($3.5-4 trillion deficit by
     2055) shows mature platform is fiscally favorable. When to read: Read
     this when forming a view on whether the platform is fiscally viable. The
     document does not promise certainty (most figures depend on the Sovereign
     Fund's 6% real return assumption) but provides the consolidated framework
     that policy reviewers need to evaluate the platform's fiscal claims.

  5. Self-Employed and Gig Worker Implementation
     05_Analytical_Framing/05_Self_Employed_and_Gig_Worker_Implementation.docx
     Best for: Self-employed workers, independent contractors, gig-economy
     workers (rideshare, food delivery, freelance), and tax preparers serving
     these segments. Addresses contribution mechanism specifics
     (FICA-convention split applied to self-employment), gig worker
     multi-employer treatment (worker-side self-administration default),
     quarterly payment integration (consolidated quarterly payments),
     healthcare for non-W-2 workers, and Sovereign Fund accumulation without
     employer structure. Includes worked examples for independent contractor
     and multi-platform gig worker. Companion to Federal Income Tax Revenue
     Modified Architecture and What This Means For You documents.

  6. We The People Calculator
     06_Presentation_Materials/06_We_The_People_Calculator.html
     Best for: Any reader who wants a personalized side-by-side comparison
     matching their specific household situation. Citizens, skeptics,
     organizers explaining the platform door-to-door, policy reviewers
     checking a specific scenario, and anyone whose household differs from the
     representative scenarios in the Does This Raise Taxes and What This Means
     For You documents. Single-file HTML calculator that runs in any modern
     browser with no internet connection required after download. Takes
     thirteen inputs covering filing status, gross household income,
     dependents, occupation-based wage floor (with editable defaults for four
     occupation categories), state income tax rate, health insurance premium,
     out-of-pocket medical, childcare cost per child, broadband cost, tax
     preparation expected value, plus methodology and payroll-state toggles.
     Produces a side-by-side comparison table matching the structure of the
     existing platform tables, plus a decomposition showing exactly how much
     each pillar contributes (wage floor, healthcare, childcare, mental
     health, Civic Infrastructure). Every constant is documented in a
     collapsible 'Show all assumptions' section: federal tax brackets,
     standard deductions, Child Tax Credit, platform contribution rates,
     healthcare and childcare effects, wage floor defaults by occupation, and
     explicit acknowledgment of what the calculator does not model. Tax math
     verified against the published examples in Does This Raise Taxes and What
     This Means For You. Includes 'Match document' methodology toggle so users
     can verify the calculator against the published comparison tables. v2.27
     update: The Calculator now implements the canonical OPEN-2 high-earner
     architecture (graduated income surcharge 5/10/15% above $250K/$500K/$1M
     for singles, doubled for MFJ; small wealth surcharge 0.5% above $10M net
     worth; wealth tax 2.5% above $50M net worth) replacing the prior
     simplified 2% surcharge. v2.27 also adds a collapsible business-side
     section implementing the Federal Infrastructure Fee architecture
     (location fee, employee fee with 25-employee exemption, revenue surcharge
     above $50M, public-purpose exemptions). When to read: Use the calculator
     after reading at least one of Does This Raise Taxes or What This Means
     For You so you understand what the comparison shows. Then enter your
     actual situation and see your personalized number. The 'Show all
     assumptions' panel makes every default visible; override any default with
     better information about your specific situation. The 'Copy results to
     clipboard' button produces a text summary you can save or share.

FORMAT
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Each document is included in two formats:
  - .docx — original Word document (best for editing or full-fidelity reading)
  - .html — self-contained browser-viewable version (works on any device)

The .html files include the platform's flag background, formatting, and
a navigation link back to the platform index (if you have the rest of the
package). They open in any web browser by double-clicking.

ABOUT THE PLATFORM
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The We The People Platform is a federal-policy reform proposal package
authored by Jason Robertson. The full platform consists of 109 documents
across 12 policy pillars. This ZIP is a curated subset.

Full platform: https://wethepeopleplatform.com
(or the platform_index.html page from the full package)

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