Economics For Democrats

By Mark Pash, CFP
With Brad Parker

This website is to educate, clarify, define and defend the economic philosophy of the Democratic Party. It is not the usual text and debate on fiscal policy: what to spend and how to tax. This is up to government operational debate, although a relatively balanced Federal budget is always optimum, except in times of war, recession or depression.

There will be no moral, ethical, political or sociological defense of our economic philosophy offered on this website or in these writings. While they are valid arguments, it reduces the effectiveness of the defense of our policies rather than basing the defense solely on an economic basis. This website demonstrates our current leaders failure to adequately defend and explain our philosophy on an economic basis.

This website is a general explanation and defense of our progressive economic philosophy. The goal is to unite the party under a single, macroeconomic umbrella.

I have discovered that there are excellent political-economic books and authors. They have written extensive, long works that few have read. In fact, many Democrats have never even heard of these authors. To offset any time constraints, the essay enables people to review the ideas and philosophy in a short period of time - approx. 15 minutes. The supporting text will eventually be the size of a short book. And, a supplementary reading list will be provided to further your understanding of the subject.

The website currently has two sections: this short introduction and an essay on Progressive Economic Policy. Other explanatory texts and additional tactical comments will be available soon. The text will be continually updated as I go back through the years of my research and bring it to this website.

If you have questions or comments, I encourage you to participate on my blog. When you comment on the blog: please remember that economic logic is circular. It is not linear or in a vacuum. Everything affects everything else.

Hopefully, with your help and through referrals, public relations and advertising campaigns, we can get a large group of people as well as our political leadership to review the ideas here, resulting in active Democrats and voters support for Progressive Economics.

This website is not set up with a profit motive. I am self-funded, and if we sell advertising, it will only be used for website promotions and operational expenses.