Community capitalism would strengthen both markets and people

Former Vermont congressman Peter Smith lives in Santa Fe, where he enjoys VTDigger daily.Pope Francis recently wrote that “market capitalism” was out of control and that the world needed an alternative. In the United States, we are well aware of the burgeoning economic gap between the top 1% and everyone else that has erupted over the last 30 years. There are multiple contributors to that gap, including discriminatory tax codes that favor the very wealthy and corporate tax looph