1. To return control over economic decision making to the community and individual.

2. To provide the means for a community to safely and simply increase the money supply in the community without causing inflation.

3. To separate the contradictory functions of money as a store of value on external markets and a medium of exchange at the community level.

4. To encourage local economic circulation by enhancing local production capabilities in the community for the meeting of human needs and community security in basic needs.

5. To separate the contradiction of paying interest to positive accounts (encouraging saving) while at the same time trying to encourage spending to facilitate economic recovery.

6. To identify individual and community assets to the meeting of community needs.

7. To bring about a steady-state economy in which the value of money accurately reflects material reality, in which people's needs are met, in a way which does not require ever-increasing material throughput.  Support reduction, reuse and recycling of goods.

8. To encourage people to stay in their community and not journey to other places (cities) in order to earn money.

9. To improve human security, whether social, economic, cultural, etc.

10.  To increase local self-reliance, thus to increase a community's ability to weather an economic downturn or crisis, or to recover from it.  Insulate communities and the poor from crises.

11.  To improve quality of life in a community, social harmony, mutual aid, cooperation and reciprocation.

12.  To allow for social and environmental, not just economic, valuation.

13.   To provide a means for employment by displaced or marginal workers, people in transition, or trying out new fields.  Encourage people to contribute to their community, such as by working on community projects for public benefit.

14.  To provide economic, as well as political, enfranchisement.  Poor people have no choice.

15.  To make it easy to see that there is enough for everyone, if everyone shares, and that there is no need to compete for resources or to meet one's needs.

16.  To make the development of social capital more important than material capital.

17.  To increase the amount of time national currency stays in the economy.

18.  To increase the sense of self-esteem and self-worth and pride in the community & culture.

19.  To give voice to and foster pride in culture and history, and to protect it from damage through tourism, etc.