Guide to Choice Taxation: The Simpler, Smarter, Better way to Govern
The bold new plan that ensures everyone gets the domestic policies they want and need from the people they choose and trust.
Choice Taxation is a revolutionary new plan for domestic governance. As simple as it is effective, the plan recognizes that America is too ideologically diverse for one-size-fits-all taxation and one-size-fits-all governance. Where our current system is all about force, Choice Taxation is all about choice.
Instead of forcing us to pay into a one-size-fits-all tax system controlled by a government that is itself controlled by billionaires and broligarchs, Choice Taxation gives us a choice among four new tax systems that operate independently of the government.
And instead of forcing us to accept a one-size-fits-all system of governance run by politicians who are owned and operated by corporate America and the 1%, Choice Taxation gives us a choice among systems governed exclusively by people like us—people who share our values, beliefs, and political views.
Here’s how it works:
Step 1: Create four new partisan tax systems and put them in charge of collecting and managing most of our domestic spending tax dollars.
As long as we continue to pay all our domestic spending tax dollars into a government-controlled one-size-fits-all tax system, politicians in the opposition party will continue to have a say in how those dollars are spent. With that say they’ll have the power to block, deny, or end the funding we need for the policies and programs we want.
So the first thing Choice Taxation directs us to do, is create four new partisan tax systems and put them in charge of collecting most of our domestic spending tax dollars.
Those four systems are:
The Progressive Tax System
The Democrat Tax System
The Republican Tax System
The MAGA Tax System
Our government will continue to collect the tax dollars that fund things like public safety, infrastructure projects, and national defense. But, these new partisan tax systems will collect the taxes that fund the domestic policies that shape our lives.
Each tax system will be set up by leaders and lawmakers who align with its ideology, and no one outside the system will have any say in how it spends its tax dollars. Americans will be free to apply for membership in the system of their choice; however, each system will have the freedom to deny membership to people whose values conflict with its own. With this power, a system can, if it chooses, deny membership to any billionaires or broligarchs who might apply.
Step 2: Put the new tax systems fully in charge of education, healthcare, and entitlement programs.
As long as we leave our government in charge of education, healthcare, and entitlement programs, we’ll continue to get one-size-fits-all policies rooted in the other side’s values.
To get around this problem, Step Two of Choice Taxation directs us to put the new partisan tax systems fully in charge of education, healthcare, and entitlement programs.
With the tax systems in charge, all government involvement in those critical issues will end. Each tax system will then be able to create, fund, and govern its own education system, healthcare system, and entitlement programs. And, crucially, it’ll be able to do so without any input or interference from politicians on the other side of the aisle.
To ensure there are always schools and hospitals in our area that are governed exclusively by people who share our social policy goals, our public K-12 schools and public hospitals will be divided proportionately among the new tax systems.
To end the culture wars waged over higher education, colleges and universities will no longer receive any funding from the government. Instead, funding will be provided by the individual tax systems. Each system will determine which schools it wants to support, and in turn, schools will decide which offers to accept. This ensures that colleges and universities can’t be bullied by partisan politicians, and taxpayers can’t be forced to fund schools steeped in other people’s values.
Step 3: Put the tax systems, instead of our government, in charge of creating and enforcing most of the rules and regulations that govern our private sector businesses and workplaces.
As long as we continue to allow our government to be the sole regulator of America’s private sector, we’ll continue to have a one-size-fits-all private sector regulated by politicians in the pocket of billionaires, broligarchs, and corporate America. As a result, those rules and regulations will do little, if anything, to prevent predatory capitalists from using, abusing, cheating, and scamming consumers and workers.
In order to keep this country’s capitalists in check, Step Three of Choice Taxation directs us to put the new tax systems in charge of creating and enforcing most (but not all) of the rules and regulations that govern our private sector businesses and workplaces.
The government will still regulate issues that affect the general public (e.g., vehicle emission standards, zoning laws, and hazardous waste disposal). But the rules that affect consumers and workers will fall under the purview of the tax systems (e.g., food safety standards, nutrition labeling requirements, workplace safety rules, and labor laws).
Once the systems have crafted their regulations, American companies and corporations will be able to apply for membership in the tax system(s) of their choice. However, the tax systems won’t be required to accept every company that applies. Additionally, they’ll have the power to revoke a company’s membership if stops following the system’s rules.
With these powers, each system will be able to build and maintain a private sector of its own design. One that is composed entirely of businesses owned and operated by people who share its economic policy goals.
Step 4: End all federal funding..
As long as we allow the federal government to provide funding assistance to states, Congress will continue to have the power to redistribute one state’s wealth to another. To ensure partisan politicians can no longer use our money to subsidize their states, Step Four of Choice Taxation directs us to end all federal funding. After all, nothing says states’ rights like states having the right to decide for themselves whether they redistribute their wealth to others.
With the tax systems in charge of education, healthcare, and entitlement programs, state and local governments will no longer have to fund those costly issues. Instead, they’ll be able to devote the majority of their general revenue to infrastructure projects and disaster recovery efforts (the tax systems will assume the responsibility of providing direct aid to Americans following a natural disaster).
While states should be able to cover the bulk of these costs themselves, they’ll still be free to call upon other states for funding assistance. However, the federal government will no longer act as a go-between. Instead of Congress and the president, it will be governors and state lawmakers who determine how much assistance a state provides.
Ultimately, this will encourage states to work together and support one another—because any state that refuses to help may find that, in its own time of need, its fellow states send its calls for assistance straight to voicemail.
Step 5: Downsize or dissolve all the governmental departments and agencies that currently oversee the issues the tax systems are slated to govern.
Every department and agency in the government gives unelected partisans the power to dictate how we live our lives. So in Step Five, Choice Taxation directs us to downsize or dissolve all the local, state, and federal departments and agencies that currently govern the issues the tax systems are slated to take over.
Each tax system will then be free to create its own version of any—or all—of the government-controlled departments and agencies that have been downsized or dissolved. (Alternatively, systems may choose to do so in partnership with another system.) Neither the government nor members of other tax systems will have any say in how a system funds or governs its institutions.
Choice Taxation understands that governance should reflect the governed, that no one should be forced to fund policies they oppose, and that unity doesn’t require uniformity—it requires respect.
And so, Choice Taxation replaces one-size-fits-all taxation and one-size-fits-all governance with choice. In doing so, it delivers true representational governance which ensures we all get the domestic policies we want and need exclusively from the people we choose and trust.
It’s time we jettison our current system for a simpler, smarter, better way to govern. It’s time we adopt Choice Taxation and finally get the government we deserve—one that is exclusively of, by, and for people like us.
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