We Are Not Left. We Are Not Right.

We Are Structural

The American experiment is failing. Not because the idea was wrong, but because the structure was corrupted. These papers propose a reset.

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When America Broke

The year was 1913. Three things happened.

1913

16th Amendment

Federal Income Tax

Before 1913, the federal government was funded by tariffs. It was limited because its funding was limited. The income tax gave Washington unlimited fuel.

1913

17th Amendment

Direct Election of Senators

State legislatures chose senators, giving states a check on federal overreach. The 17th removed this check. The federal government lost its leash.

1913

Federal Reserve Act

Central Banking

Money creation was centralized and removed from accountability. The Fed could print money, inflating away your savings without explicit taxation.

Before 1913

  • Small federal government
  • Strong states
  • Local accountability
  • Stable money
  • Citizens kept what they earned

After 1913

  • Unlimited fuel (income tax)
  • No brake (states neutered)
  • Printing press (Fed)
  • $35 trillion debt
  • 180,000 pages of regulations
770,000 People per Representative
$35T Federal Debt
180K Pages of Regulations
75K Pages of Tax Code

We Don't Add Complexity.
We Subtract It.

Every solution is a removal. This is Occam's Razor applied to governance.

~33,000 Representatives

One rep per 30,000 people. The original ratio. Each serves neighbors, not strangers. Gerrymandering becomes impossible.

Current: 770,000:1 Decentralist: 30,000:1
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Sortition

Selection by lottery, like jury duty. No campaigns. No donors. No career politicians. The reluctant citizen beats the ambitious politician.

Current: Elections select power-seekers Decentralist: Random citizens serve
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No One Goes to DC

Representatives stay home. Work from local offices. PEACE infrastructure, Starlink, blockchain voting. The DC bubble dies.

Current: 535 people in one city Decentralist: 33,000+ across both continents
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You Keep 90%

10% tithe to community. 10% to YOUR savings. 80% liquid. No income tax. Federal funded by 17.76% tariff + consumption tax.

Current: 30-50% to government Decentralist: 0% income tax
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National Dividend

Federal surplus divided equally among citizens. You're a shareholder in America. Each child is a share. Families prosper.

Current: Surplus wasted in DC Decentralist: $10,000 per person/year
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Robot Economy

You own the robots. You keep the earnings. GDP per capita ($100K) becomes your passive income. Nobody has to work. Many choose to.

Current: Corporations own automation Decentralist: Citizens own robots

The Economic Engine

Toroidal Economics: A self-reinforcing cycle where eliminating waste creates dividends, dividends create spending, spending creates growth, growth creates more dividends.

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The Reset Is Happening

We wrote the papers December 31, 2025. The world started catching up January 1, 2026.

Tariffs Replace Income Tax

We proposed the 17.76% tariff. The administration is implementing tariffs as the primary revenue engine. The income tax is becoming obsolete in real time.

Paper VII: Taxation Transformed Happening now

DOGE Cuts The Bloat

We said eliminate government waste and return the surplus. DOGE is gutting federal agencies and exposing trillions in waste. The toroid starts when the cuts become dividends.

Paper XII: What Dies Happening now
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Continental Union Forming

Greenland talks. Panama Canal leverage. Canada fracturing. Maduro removed. Cuba falling. The Western Hemisphere is reorganizing exactly as Paper XIX proposed.

Paper XIX: Continental Union Happening now
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The Debt Jubilee

We've subsidized the world's defense for 80 years. $35 trillion in debt held by nations who rode free under our umbrella. The leverage is simple: we're even. Start at zero.

Paper XVII: Sound Money The conversation has started
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Paper Ballots

Election integrity isn't partisan. It's structural. Paper ballots, hand counted, locally verified. Technology enables transparency, not replacement of the physical record.

Paper XIV: Implementation Path Legislation moving
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Federal Scope Shrinking

Defense, courts, foreign policy. Three things. That's what the federal government does. Everything else goes back to the states and communities. The machine is finally being right-sized.

Paper X: The Federal Scope Happening now

We didn't predict this. We diagnosed it.

The Decentralist Papers aren't prophecy. They're pattern recognition. The same structural failures produce the same outcomes. Rome knew it. Now we know it. The only question is whether we fix it or repeat it.

Continental Union

From the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego. Both Americas united.

THE CONTINENTAL UNION OF AMERICA Arctic to Tierra del Fuego | $100 Trillion GDP | 1 Billion Citizens
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Canada

40 Million

Arctic defense. Northwest Passage. 90% culturally American already. Lower taxes, real military, keep the hockey.

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Greenland

57,000

Strategic Arctic position. Rare earth minerals. Thule Air Base. Infrastructure investment and full citizenship.

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Mexico

132 Million

Military support to end cartel control. Rule of law restored. Hardworking people liberated. $4T GDP potential.

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Central America

53 Million

Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize. Panama Canal secured. No more caravans - they're already home.

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Argentina

46 Million

Immense talent, cursed by Peronism. Lithium reserves, agriculture, educated population. Unleashed under competent governance.

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Peru, Chile, Ecuador

72 Million

Copper, lithium, minerals. Chile's stability, Peru's resources, Ecuador's potential. The southern cone industrial engine.

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Caribbean

45 Million

Cuba finally free. Haiti finally stable. Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad. The tourism and trade hub it was meant to be.

1B Citizens
$100T GDP (Properly Managed)
$100K Per Capita
~33,000 Representatives

The External Border

Once the Continental Union forms, the external border is the ocean on every side and the Arctic to the north. Two continents, both coasts, both oceans. These borders are defended. Period. Russia and China are out of our hemisphere. A billion citizens, a unified defense force, and the political will to enforce sovereignty. Nobody challenges that.

The Decentralist Papers

20 papers. One vision. Click to read.

I

The Diagnosis

When America broke in 1913

II

The Representation Problem

770,000 to 1

III

Sortition Over Election

The lottery principle

IV

Distributed Representation

No one goes to DC

V

The State CEO

Operations, not politics

VI

Local IS Federal

One representative, not five layers

VII

Taxation Transformed

You keep 90%

VIII

The National Dividend

Your share of America

IX

Immutable Laws

Pass it, own it forever

X

The Federal Scope

Three things. That's it.

XI

The Executive Decentralized

No more White House

XII

What Dies

The eliminated

XIII

The Infrastructure

PEACE: The OS of the Republic

XIV

Implementation Path

How we get there

XV

The Coalition

Who joins us

XVI

First Principles

The philosophy

XVII

Sound Money

Abolish the Fed

XVIII

The Robot Economy

You own the machines

XIX

Continental Union

Arctic to Tierra del Fuego

XX

The Code

The moral framework

"We don't want to control the machine. We want to fix it."
- The Decentralist Papers

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Roy W. Gurner

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Built on Occam's Logic, First Principles, and 20 Years in the Rooms. These papers were written December 31, 2025 - the last day of the old way.

Roy W. Gurner

December 31, 2025