Interactive Tax Patronage System: Choose Which Taxes We Pay
The theory behind this system is that most people agree with the need to pay their taxes and support our democratic system of government, but they don’t agree with using their taxpayer dollars to personally fund all of the government agencies and projects that get formed without their input. By creating a government website – i.e. www.webtax.gov – which allows all taxpayers to interactively build “tax quorums” around ...more »
The theory behind this system is that most people agree with the need to pay their taxes and support our democratic system of government, but they don’t agree with using their taxpayer dollars to personally fund all of the government agencies and projects that get formed without their input. By creating a government website – i.e. www.webtax.gov – which allows all taxpayers to interactively build “tax quorums” around the civil services that our government provides through interactive, online patronage we ease two major tensions with our current tax structure: 1) taxpayer unrest at how tax revenues are spent and 2) unpopular, excess government bureaucracy and waste. Each taxpayer has a finite tax liability each year and allowing them to interactively create and “donate” to the civil services that they deem necessary would lead to a statistical efficiency in government infrastructure. Only those services that reach a required quorum threshold through the interactive taxparticipants quorum method (IQTM) would receive funding. All tax “donations” would be itemized by each government agency and each taxpayer would receive a yearly summary of where all their tax monies were spent and for what projects they were used. This is a transparent, self-sustained tax structure that by its very nature cleans up government infrastructure and incentivizes taxpayers’ to more fully engage politically, which seems like two apparent goals of the current administration.
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