Choose where your taxes go, aka Tax Shopping, aka Power Of The Purse, aka Money Talks

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Imagine this:

After calculating how much taxes you owe - you are able to then choose where every cent of your taxes is allocated.

THE ULTIMATE FEEDBACK MECHANISM FOR FAILED GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS!!

After calculating and filing, each taxpayer will peruse an interactive list of existing government programs, which are up for funding in the following year.

Think of it like a Go-Fund-Me for government programs!

You may choose to fund programs you support and benefit from, or REFUSE funding to disastrous programs, or those which have no benefit to you.

Each program should have a CAP, so that once all requested funding has been reached, the remaining taxpayers will have to fund something else.

This will prevent overspending and diversify the government program portfolio!

(Ideally - we would all get to choose the programs themselves, but with so many people, we will never converge on a single set of programs and nothing will ever get fully funded)

FINALLY… RECEIPTS!

You can follow your cents as they’re spent on these programs. Every cent will be tied to your account ID so you can trace and verify they indeed are spent where they belong. You can even find a friend to share his account ID to verify his/hers.

OR AT ANY SIGN OF SUSPICIOUS CORRUPTION THE MASSES CAN ALL COME TOGETHER AND VERIFY THEIR SPENT CENTS BY THEIR ACCOUNT IDS!!

THE ULTIMATE CHOICE IS YOUR TO CONTROL!
(What is congress for anyway, why don’t we just do it ourselves?)

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This would effectively give us a Direct Democracy economy within a Republic.

How would such a system actually function?

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Vote on programs with your money, you’re paying it to the government anyway…

People are more conscious when it comes to spending hard earned money than they are just blindly voting on worthless programs.

Anyone will sign their support for any policy that sounds good, it doesn’t cost a thing to sign a petition, or fill in a bubble on a ballot.

But once the notion that the program costs them money comes into play, people will think twice before wasteful spending.

Government programs will have to compete for your funding, JUST LIKE THE FREE MARKET!

After filing taxes online, taxpayers will be granted access to the next step: a site where they can “Shop” through programs which are requesting funding for the next year from their tax balance.

Interface shouldn’t be complicated:

Outstanding balance at the top of the screen to keep track of your spending

Add programs to your cart and set the amount of your taxes you wish to allocate (set your own price)

Fill up your cart until you’ve exhausted your tax balance and checkout

Programs that have already reached their cap have “Sold-Out” and cannot be selected

Your money is traceable to the spending - simple accounting and transaction receipts every step of the way for transparency and traceability

The administration of these programs must record every cent they spend against every funding amount that has been granted to them.

$230 spent on office furniture = $30 from Taxpayer Tom, $120 from Taxpayer Dick, $80 from Taxpayer Sally

You get the idea…

NOTE: the Tax Shopping is for the COMING year

This means, the administrations pushing these programs must have a full fledged spending plan a year in advance - and if they overspend and don’t succeed in the annual goals/targets, they are stuck until next tax season

It also means, if they fail, you the taxpayer, will likely not continue funding them to continue…

No more rubber stamping, and you have all the control!

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Brilliant!

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Hello:
Please consider my proposal to amend the United States Constitution Amendment sixteen. My proposed amendment would eliminate direct taxation and restore the Founders concept of allowing only indirect taxation in the United States. This would restore the original sprit of Our Constitution establishing Citizen control over taxation. This will end the tyranny of taxation as it pertains to Property Ownership. Currently you effectively do not own Property. If this was not the case you would not fear loosing your Property when you are unable to make Property Tax payments. This applies to all Personal Property. It also applies to savings. Family farms will no longer be in jeopardy because of Property Taxes. Repealing Amendment 16 will end the punishment for owing and saving. Citizens would again be allowed to say NO to taxation they feel is excessive or unjust. Feel free to share this information and link.

Thank you for Your consideration, Fred Walker

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Hi Fred, unfortunately I used up all my votes, I don’t know when they will replenish.

With respect to tax reform on how our dues are calculated, Trump and others in his coming administration have already been floating the idea of ending income tax and switching to tariffs, etc…hopefully the Trump admin already aligns with your proposal.

I am 100% on board with ending all taxes for personal property - under the current system we don’t own our own property, we are endlessly “renting” it from the government at risk of liens and siezures.

Indirect taxation sounds like more smoke and mirrors which would be difficult to verify if we’re getting royally screwed. Can you elaborate further on that?

PS-Thank God that CLINT didn’t get elected, she would have taxed our unrealized gains too!