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About Taxes - we need some. The question is "How much and who should pay"?

We each have our individual needs and wants. We have many needs and wants in common. We want safety; we want our children to succeed in life. We want to minimize conflict with others. We want to make a contribution and be recognized for our efforts. We need a job which matches our abilities and interests.

Our government is failing us because we are failing our government. This is a democracy. We get what we say we want. We just need to want the right things. Each of us must weight our own needs and wants against the needs and wants of everyone else and make reasonable requests of our elected officials. Money is not the goal in life. It is a tool for deciding what each of us will contribute to our collective lives on this earth.

Government should be managed as a business. Government is in the Just Society business.

Recommendations

• Separate the government's role of establishing and enforcing the Law from the role of running social programs. We need to differentiate between a tax and a social insurance program. Government mandated social insurance should not be spoken of as a tax - it is mandatory insurance system.
• Social insurance programs would be mandated by law and administered under contract by public owned corporations.
  1. Social Security is a retirement system
  2. Medicare is a health insurance system
  3. Universal health care can be funded by requiring all income earners to purchase health insurance at a fixed percentage of their income without regard to their history or need. Good health care should be a benefit of membership in society.
• Guarantee employment for everyone who wants a job:
  1. Eliminate all welfare payments over a brief time interval; say five years. The welfare experiment was a total failure.
  2. Set the minimum wage to be one half of the established poverty level in each zip code. Let the labor market establish the value of work.
  3. Make the state an employer of last resort to ensure that anyone who wants a job receives one. These jobs will serve community needs and be paid from the income tax. The wage rate will be the minimum wage. Jobs of last resort will require a minimum of forty hours per week of attendance on the job.
  4. Adjust the number of hours in a work week inversely to the number of jobs of last resort provided by the state
• Relate each tax to a specific function. Remove all non-specific taxes.

Taxes and Services

* this is a collection service only - the funds are then directly transfered to the spending authority

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