Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: economic crisis

[Thomas Lofft (tlofft]

------------------------------My sense is that every cohousing community of 
which I know already operates an inherent barter system starting from managing 
their own community instead of paying out taxable income to some other party to 
manage the community for us, including all the volunteers serving on the 
national and regional network boards.
 
This grows as the level of community trust grows, which is what many of us had 
in mind from day one: to live in a community of trusted friends and neighbors, 
helping one another in times of need, or merely times of want.  The more we 
exchange or purchase each others services in lieu of paying out reportable 
income to any other party which then become taxes to fund the national nuclear 
arsenal, the more we are creating an internal non-reportable, non-taxable 
economy. 
 
Whoever said co-housers are all liberals was partly mistaken.  Financially, 
they are among the most  conservative in the country, judging from their 
actions.
 
TL
LV
Message: 4Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:37:15 -0400From: Brian Bartholomew <bb [at] 
stat.ufl.edu>Subject: Re: [C-L]_ economic crisisTo: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l 
[at] cohousing.org>Message-ID: <20081006013715.79CDC747E3 [at] 
capelin.stat.ufl.edu>> One of the many fantasies I had about a movement like 
cohousing was> that, once it got big enough, we could start creating our own> 
industries, employing our own people, engaging in inter-community> trade, with 
our own banking system and our own money.What is stopping you from doing this 
today? What prevents members ofyour community from starting small home 
businesses?BrianThanks for writing.Tom
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