Basic Public Investments (BPIs)
Education – Health Care – Infrastructure – Research
Safe Communities – Community Development – Safety Nets
Key Points:
- BPIs CREATE the NECESSARY CONDITIONS for PEOPLE and BUSINESSES to THRIVE.
- Both people AND businesses need ALL BPIs to thrive.
- Many businesses would not exist or thrive without previous BPIs.
- BPIs infuse funds into every community, from rural to urban areas, helping both people and businesses thrive!
- Increasing BPIs
- Create an initial stimulus effect and years to decades in multiplier effects from healthy and educated people, research, infrastructure, and the rest of the BPIs.
- Accelerate and expand the economy, resulting in increased tax revenue.
- Create more customers with money essential to business success.
- BPIs are fiscally responsible as they create and save more tax revenue than they cost.
- Reductions in BPIs result in a greater loss of tax revenue than any savings.
- BPIs do not equate to socialism; rather, they are essential for the existence and success of businesses, which provide the majority of products and services.