The public
Middle-class households who will live with the consequences of today’s debt path, and who should be able to read the plan in plain language before they are asked to support it.
The initiative
Plan for Prosperity exists to make a 20-year fiscal choice legible — and therefore contestable on the merits.
It is not a campaign, a party vehicle, or a startup. It is a public presentation of a working policy framework: the American Stability and Long-Term Prosperity Act.
Mission
Leave the next generation a country they can thrive in.
The United States does not lack diagnoses of its fiscal trajectory. It lacks a durable, nonpartisan path that treats household security, institutional capacity, and climate-related fiscal risk as part of the same problem. Plan for Prosperity translates a long working draft into a site a general reader can finish, a staffer can cite, and a reporter can check.
The constraint is explicit: no measure may impose a net cost on households earning $40,000–$150,000 without a costed mitigation in the same package. That is what distinguishes this framework from austerity programs that balance the books on the middle of the distribution.
Version 2 is the follow-on that asked the question Version 1 left open: fiscal balance for what? After the first draft was published, the authors added a fifth pillar — Human Flourishing and Societal Infrastructure — ten policies drawn from peer democracies, each bound by the same hold-harmless rule and the same path to 70 percent of GDP. The nonpartisan framing is unchanged: mechanisms from across the spectrum, associations disclosed, not concealed.
Who this is for
Four audiences, one request
Evaluate the trajectory honestly. Debate the trade-offs in the open. Decide whether and how to act with the data on the table.
Congress and staff
Members, committee professionals, and Legislative Counsel who need an operational outline — titles, vehicles, agencies, and scoring posture — not a manifesto.
Executive agencies
Treasury, OMB, CBO, GAO, IRS, and the Federal Reserve, whose analytical and implementation capacity will determine whether any enacted framework functions as designed.
Press and analysts
Journalists and researchers who need sourced baselines, published ranges, and an honest account of what is a CBO number and what is an illustrative estimate.
What this is not
Not an introduced bill.The legislative page is architecture for Legislative Counsel. Floor-ready statutory language is a subsequent drafting step.
Not a CBO score.Dollar figures are directional estimates under conventional budget-window logic. Formal scoring is required before legislative consideration.
Not a partisan program.Mechanisms are drawn from consolidations and tax, health, and industrial policies advanced across the spectrum. Where a proposal has a current partisan association, the draft says so.
Read it, download it, argue with it.
Credibility is the product. If a number is wrong, the working draft should be corrected. If a trade-off is real, it should stay on the page.
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