David Garcia Ozua is an Economist and Anthropological Researcher with over a decade of experience in the political economy of the South Bay-Tijuana transnational periphery. He built social service programs delivering more than 27,000 services annually (providing direct ethnographic insight into the social safety net's failure points) and directed over $3.5 million in investments to first-time business owners, demonstrating expertise in capital allocation within the periphery. In civic leadership, David successfully campaigned for a $459 million investment in South Bay public schools and served as a Bond Oversight Committee Member—work that now informs his critique of public goods provisioning and the costs imposed by state bureaucracy (the Compliance Surcharge). Earlier in his career, he contributed to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), supporting the monthly publication of the Consumer Price Index (CPI)—experience that provides the methodological foundation for his proposed Border Living Index (BLI) and his critique of formal economic metrics.