Consider a tax break for barter transaction values less than $5000. This would support and encourage community building

Barter is the economic backbone of neighbors and the economically challenged. Barter strengthens community and wise resource management. It can encourage and support the connection between small scale producers and economically challenged consumers. Barter brings commerce to people and places that otherwise look to others for positive community inputs. Let's help folks see that they have the means to create a product or service and that it has value to other people. Barter revitalizes our value of self, particularly where economic status has been falsely used to define our value to society and to our family. Barter can help families support themselves where the economy fails them. When the value of barter is taxed, it devalues the entire process and squashes self sufficiency.