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So I'm kind of worn out on the endless Romney - Obama bashing express. So, this topic is intended to be free of those 2names, no liberal conservative stuff, no political stuff at all. I hope some of you are capable of this.
The Specklebang for President for The Logical Party never really got enough attention for the 2012 race. So, you'll all have another chance in 2016. I've thought a lot about taxes and I've come up with a platform. Useful contributions will be appreciated.
Every item in the tax codes is erased. There are only 3 forms of "taxation" at the Federal level.
Every financial transaction that enters the system will pay a tax of 1/10 of a percent. That percentage is my starting point and I'll be happy to hear what you think.
So, you get a paycheck of $600 a week. You must deposit this in your bank OR you could just cash it. If you put it in the bank, you will pay $1.20. When your bank makes a loan of $600, there will be $1.20 tax. When somebody pays back the loan, there will be $1.20 tax. When Daddy Warbucks invest $1-million in a roast baby farm, he will transfer money from his account and pay a tax of $1,000.00. When he gets his monthly dividend of $10,000.00 he will pay a tax of $10.00. There is no tax on cash transactions UNLESS you deposit the money in a financial institution.
Money is always on the move - trillions and trillions of dollars flow from points A to B to C etc. The small percentage is painless.
This eliminates all personal and corporate taxes. There are just 2 more taxes. 10% of your income is placed in a Mandatory Savings account with an em,ployer match of 5%. The last thing is Specklecare which you will pay 5% and your employer will pay 5%. The last 2 will probably lose some money. They are a separate topic though.
Do you think this would raise enough revenue and do you think it's fair to everyone? Certainly "the rich" move around more money than "the poor" but the percentage is small and identical.
OK, I've tried to make an interesting thread. Anybody in? Take a break from bashing and lets reinvent America.
Specklebang For President 2016
I'm Specklebang and I approve of most things
I don't think that a transaction tax that low would raise enough revenue, and I could see some issues with in the implementation, and I don't particularly see why you would want to incentivise cash transactions over any other type of transaction.
The imagep income tax system replacement plan consists of just two income tax rate. The 0% rate, like we had for most of the existance of this country, for everyone making a salary that is within the norm. And a different rate, as low as possible as long as it results in a balanced budget, which would only be taxes on income that is in excess of the norm. I would suggest that $400k per year might be the tax bracket break just because thats about the top normal income for our most educated and skilled profession - the specialist MD. Any income above $400k could easily be called windfall income, and if anyone can't have a decent standard of living at $400k, then there is something wrong with them.
But I do like your mandatory savings account idea. It's very similar to what I would do as a replacement to social security. I wouldn't have the employer contributing at all though, that would just result in a reduction in stated compensation, and what would you do about people like me who have an income but don't have an employer? What I would do would be a straight 10% mandatory savings into a federal savings account that guarantees a rate of return of the inflation rate plus 1%, proceeds could be withdrawn at age 65 at the rate of no more than 5% of total savings per year. I would also have a very small federal sales tax which would be as small as possible and still allow full funding of an "old age insurance policy" for every american which would provide a decent income upon reaching age 85. This would allow people to actually be able to plan how much they need to save for retirement because they would then know then age at which time their savings could be exausted without them having to starve to death or otherwise end their own life. The biggest reason that even reasonable people don't have a retirement savings plan is because they can't do the math because they don't know when they will die - this would eliminate the need to know ones age of death in advance.
I also support a socialized high deductable health insurance plan to replace all current government healthcare spending programs, which would save about $2k per citizen, which would be rebated back to each citizen in the form of a deposit to their healthcare savings account and could be used by each individual to pay for their deductables.
I would eliminate all means tested gov giveaways, subsidies, tax credits, and the like.
It would end banks. The first thing I think of is that I want to do only cash. No checks, no where, no how.
Not at all.
Do you think Mr. Romney would keep all his money in cash to avoid the expense of a less than 1% tax? I doubt it. The only people who live on cash are the utterly poor and they don't comprise much of banking and other financial transactions.
Obviously, you could choose to exclude yourself from the system to save a few dollar. But even then, you'll have to pay your bills to somebody by money order and they'll deposit it.
Oh, they'd find a way. Cash trade institutions might pop up where actual cash moves from account to account and thus prevent a bank transaction.
So I'm kind of worn out on the endless Romney - Obama bashing express. So, this topic is intended to be free of those 2names, no liberal conservative stuff, no political stuff at all. I hope some of you are capable of this.
The Specklebang for President for The Logical Party never really got enough attention for the 2012 race. So, you'll all have another chance in 2016. I've thought a lot about taxes and I've come up with a platform. Useful contributions will be appreciated.
Every item in the tax codes is erased. There are only 3 forms of "taxation" at the Federal level.
Every financial transaction that enters the system will pay a tax of 1/10 of a percent. That percentage is my starting point and I'll be happy to hear what you think.
So, you get a paycheck of $600 a week. You must deposit this in your bank OR you could just cash it. If you put it in the bank, you will pay $1.20. When your bank makes a loan of $600, there will be $1.20 tax. When somebody pays back the loan, there will be $1.20 tax. When Daddy Warbucks invest $1-million in a roast baby farm, he will transfer money from his account and pay a tax of $1,000.00. When he gets his monthly dividend of $10,000.00 he will pay a tax of $10.00. There is no tax on cash transactions UNLESS you deposit the money in a financial institution.
Money is always on the move - trillions and trillions of dollars flow from points A to B to C etc. The small percentage is painless.
This eliminates all personal and corporate taxes. There are just 2 more taxes. 10% of your income is placed in a Mandatory Savings account with an em,ployer match of 5%. The last thing is Specklecare which you will pay 5% and your employer will pay 5%. The last 2 will probably lose some money. They are a separate topic though.
Do you think this would raise enough revenue and do you think it's fair to everyone? Certainly "the rich" move around more money than "the poor" but the percentage is small and identical.
OK, I've tried to make an interesting thread. Anybody in? Take a break from bashing and lets reinvent America.
Specklebang For President 2016
I'm Specklebang and I approve of most things
Actually I think you will raise plenty of money with the tranaction tax, much more than you think. Over a Trillion dollors a day move thoughs our country, that calculates to 365 trillion dollors moving though our country in a given year. You will raise at .5% 1.825 trillion dollors. That is a serious chunk of change. Not only would we get native funds but you would capture funds coming though the US. Further the rate is so neglegable that to be honest very few if any would notice it. There would be very little evasion and the administrative overhead would be very little. You would actualy be able to reduce the IRS to a 25th of its current size. I would just bump the transaction tax to 1% and not worry about about the other two taxes.
I don't think that your math or facts are correct on this one.
its interesting concepts you raise. I still prefer a consumption tax rather than one for merely transferring your own assets. I will have to think about this some more.
My views on taxes are such that I oppose any system that allows the many to be seduced by politicians who promise them more stuff by merely raising the taxes on a minority
I've always thought that one fair way to fund the federal government would be an assessment against the states, apportioned by their population. This would result in 50 tax bills delivered to 50 states. The entire IRS could be eliminated and replaced with a single clerk (or computer). The states would then pay their federal dues out of their treasuries. Simple, easy, and fair.
I was once of the "one tax, flat tax" persuasion, but have mov
ed on to believing that the US and Canada are in desperate need of only two main taxes (and a few user taxes): One, a consumption (VAT type) tax on all goods and services, much like we have in Canada and elsewhere, but large enough to cover the entire cost of a balanced budget (and adjusted in real time - i.e. during an elected officials term - to reflect annual budgets). No more hiding behind the future and passing the bills for political pork barrelling on to grandchildren. Why consumption you say? Well, in a word, China. One reason that they have all of our jobs and money is that we trade with them (and others) under the assumption of meeting some kind of developed nation standard for social, labour and environmental policies, but in fact they do not and never will - just say that they do. All domestic goods and services here must now pay a tax burden that attaches to every US (or Canadian) product - a cost that is absent from Chinese products. If we try to put a protective tarrif on such goods, we rightfully get attacked under the terms of WTO agreements based on the GATT. If we tax consumption, we GET that taxation paid not to the Chinese government, but to OURS. Levels the playing field somewhat and as you might notice, the Canadian GST, UK VAT, etc. are NEVER challenged under trade rules. That is because such a consumption tax is universal and thus fair - as it applies to everything sold or done.
The other tax is indeed an income tax. Call it capital gains tax, but in fact it should be called the "speculation tax" as this is the #1 cause of wealth redistribution problems. ALL speculative gain produces absolutely zero wealth, but merely takes money from the losers and gifts it to the winners who can manipulate the rules to benefit thus. I want 99% on day one, 95% after one month, and taper down to the income tax rate (in this case zero) over a very long period - say 20+ years. We need to get investment OUT of Wall Street scams and INTO Main Street productive use of capital. NOTE: dividend income would be taxed only once, and in this scenario at zero rate. Use the proceeds to reduce debt.
In the user tax regime: Federal sick care insurance should be funded by fat tax on foods relative to their health-related costs (note food is usually not subject to GST/VAT, nor should it be), tobacco, alcohol, etc. (sin taxes) in proportion to their contribution to sick care costs. Simple deal if you don't want to pay the tax: eat properly and avoid substance abuse. In my world, most OTC meds would fall under this tax, as would legalized recreational pharma.
Transportation taxes from fuel use, to fund transportation infrastructure - because that is what the fuel is burned to use.
It is not my concern what system is used by other states.What if the states adopt the same insane system we have now? How did this fix anything?
I don't think that a transaction tax that low would raise enough revenue, and I could see some issues with in the implementation, and I don't particularly see why you would want to incentivise cash transactions over any other type of transaction.
The imagep income tax system replacement plan consists of just two income tax rate. The 0% rate, like we had for most of the existance of this country, for everyone making a salary that is within the norm. And a different rate, as low as possible as long as it results in a balanced budget, which would only be taxes on income that is in excess of the norm. I would suggest that $400k per year might be the tax bracket break just because thats about the top normal income for our most educated and skilled profession - the specialist MD. Any income above $400k could easily be called windfall income, and if anyone can't have a decent standard of living at $400k, then there is something wrong with them.
But I do like your mandatory savings account idea. It's very similar to what I would do as a replacement to social security. I wouldn't have the employer contributing at all though, that would just result in a reduction in stated compensation, and what would you do about people like me who have an income but don't have an employer? What I would do would be a straight 10% mandatory savings into a federal savings account that guarantees a rate of return of the inflation rate plus 1%, proceeds could be withdrawn at age 65 at the rate of no more than 5% of total savings per year. I would also have a very small federal sales tax which would be as small as possible and still allow full funding of an "old age insurance policy" for every american which would provide a decent income upon reaching age 85. This would allow people to actually be able to plan how much they need to save for retirement because they would then know then age at which time their savings could be exausted without them having to starve to death or otherwise end their own life. The biggest reason that even reasonable people don't have a retirement savings plan is because they can't do the math because they don't know when they will die - this would eliminate the need to know ones age of death in advance.
I also support a socialized high deductable health insurance plan to replace all current government healthcare spending programs, which would save about $2k per citizen, which would be rebated back to each citizen in the form of a deposit to their healthcare savings account and could be used by each individual to pay for their deductables.
I would eliminate all means tested gov giveaways, subsidies, tax credits, and the like.
specklebang, all that would really do is to ensure that some of us never, ever utilized a bank, invested anything, took out a loan, etc....
Sure, I get it Tigger. You would not try to earn any money because you would face that stunning tax rate of less than 1%. Why would you even accept a gift of $100,000.00 knowing that you will have to give up $1K and only have $99K left. Why would you want to take a loan on a hose knowing that your bank will have to cough up 1% to issue that loan check?
1%. Draconian. Let's stick with our current tax rates.
I didn't say I wouldn't try to earn or spend money, just that I wouldn't use a bank or other financial institution to do the transactions related to it.
Personally, I am a proponent of a 10% Flat Tax with no deductions. This tax would be on all outside income.... that is all income from sources which have not already been taxed (salaries, benefits, stock options, etc...) but not on monies which have already been taxed (bank interest, investment property, stocks, etc....). There would be no ceiling and no floor for this Flat Tax.
Just because your have your own tax system, which basically reduces tax revenue to a fraction of what it is now, is no reason to dismiss the utter genius of Speckle-tax.
I just had an image of you borrowing $100K to buy a house and bringing cash to the closing. If the Title Company even accepted it, they would have to deposit it so, you will still pay that 1%.
You know what the biggest issue I have with your system is? It's the same problem I have with the system now.... It is not nice and clean and out in the open. It hides stuff from the average taxpayer who is not a financial wizard. People would be blown away to see just how many transactions their money is really involved in over the course of a year, and just how quickly this added up to a very large amount of money out of their pockets.
No, THEY would pay that 1%. Besides the fact that I have no interest in owning a home. I prefer to rent, thank you very much.
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