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CALL TO REPLACEMENT INCOME TAX WITH THREE SMALLER TAXES TO HAVE BETTER GOVERNANCE

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This system might even allow conscientious objectors to opt out of war taxes altogether for the first time in USA history.

 

For example, if citizens in one part of the country feel that too much money is being spent to promote war making industries and bad foreign policy, these concerned citizens and voters can clearly and firmly target a tax reduction in the security and defense tax.

 

Likewise, if some people in any one part of the country feel that there is a disproportionate number of people in another part of the federation who are unfairly freeloading off their nation’s generosity in terms of either social welfare & social infrastructure (or physical infrastructure, like in building too many roadways), they can target those 2 other taxes in a political campaign for an overall reduction in the operating tax domain.

SENSE OF URGENCY IN AMERICA 

There is much urgency in the USA in 2008 to get its government spending and tax systems in line with good and efficient usage of the common tax coffer. 

 

Estimates of the current U.S. government’s federal deficit—including borrowing which took place decades ago—now is at over 65 trillion dollars. 

 

This juggernaut of a deficit means that every citizen in the USA (as part of the great USA) owes $165,000 in federal debt or that each full-time employed person in the USA owes $375,000.

 

In short, with all this debt, we Americans are simply still not getting the health, social development and physical safety owed us.

 

How might we get what is owed us in terms of better government or commonweal?

 

A more transparent tax system is one of those immediate reforms which is needed—however, we American do not need an easy-but-bad flat tax which still does not shine the light on how the federal government squanders tax money on ill-thought out policies & programs.

 

Despite this glaring need for Americans to reign in government squandering of money and provide horrible mis-spending practices the light of the day, there has been little to no innovation in the income tax system for decades.

 

An innovation like that which I am proposing, i.e. which really addresses the transparency problems inherent in our federal government spending and taxing, would have solved the cost overrun problems to America found regularly in the defense, security and war-making department expenditures.

 

The replacement of the current income tax with three separate smaller taxes would allow Americans to get a grip on the three different tmajor  areas of their lives which are affected adversely by the current open-ended and uncontrolled U.S. income tax system. 

 

Dear America, ask your congressmen, your presidential candidates and yourself, “Do we want to have a flat sales tax that (1) disproportionately harms the poorest and (2) continues to depopulate rural America?

 

Also, ask yourself whether America couldn’t do much better in terms of government spending transparency in the future if we used a system like the one I have advocated to replace the unfairness and lack of transparency of the current income tax system?

 

I believe we deserve better.

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