Do you get I'm ready for Spring and Summer? Do also get I'm fed up with the gloom and doom of the Global Warming scam? Wake up America, its all being touted so yet another method of taxation can be forced upon our already struggling middle class and force the end of some industries that the elite just don't like. Get you solar installed. Your personal wind turbine generator installed. And a propane, diesel or gas generator installed. You're going to need them to be able to afford or even have the energy you need to maintain this great way of life to which we've become accustom.
Too much money around and available for our Politicians. That may be the main root of our troubles right now. Yes, a few idiots and crooks on "Wall Street" are not helping. But they are not the larger problem. Congress passed the legislation that allowed these crooks to operate. Congress is at fault for allowing and directly causing the housing and loan problems. Not a real crisis except for those who want to create bigger government, more regulation and floods of government money. 1-2% of anything never constitutes a crisis. But it did this time.
The solution? Limit the amount of money going to government. At all levels. Further, reform how money gets to the different levels of government. Your interested if you waded this far, so get ready for a real reversal of how we distribute money to and from the county, state and federal governments. No, of course at the moment this plan will not have a chance because of the power associated with controlling and distributing large sums of funds and deciding who gets them. This plan brings it all back, closer to the people. And it works in many, if not a majority, of most if not all fraternal and professional organizations.
But now might be a great time to start furthering the revolution against the insane Congress and Adminstration before they truly bankrupt America - financially and morally. Folks, they are on a speeding, nearly unstoppable train to do both. Intentionally, according to some pundits.
Here is the plan.
1) Collect all taxes at the county level. Income, property and sales taxes.
2) A percent of that amount collected sent to the State.
3) A percent of the portion sent to the State sent to the Federal Government.
Simple.
Brings back control of funds directly into the areas in which people live and funds directly affect people rather than most of it going to the Federal government then monies being redistributed in pork barrel legislation and non-voted on earmarks or literally "taking an act of Congress" to get funding for a project or purpose.
One would ask why not go one level lower and have any municipality collect their funds and send them up to the county, and so forth? Simply because all municipalities are in a county, sometimes several counties. Some, like St. Louis, encompass their own county and beyond. Counties would distribute these monies back "downward", perhaps per population.
The idea is that a locale will be able to take care of itself first, while sharing a portion of revenues to the larger entity of State and Nation for the projects and funding that can only be properly controlled by these larger entities. Such as state highways, defense, trade and some subsidizing of lesser socio-economic areas for education and healthcare. Otherwise, there is nothing wrong with each area, to the county or parish level, only having the amenities they can afford, thus, really need.
What percentages you ask? For debate's sake, let's start at 20% of all funds collected at the county level goes to the State. Then 5% of that goes to the Federal government.
No, I have not ran the actual numbers. I'm sure those percentages would have to be modified. But I would strongly advocate not sending more than 5%, certainly a cap of 10%, to the Federal level. Remember, the more a county or parish can fund themselves, the less the Federal government needs to spend.
Social security and medicare payroll taxes would still be collected at the federal level until those programs can also be wholly reformed and this country puts a more fiscally sound program in place to shore up or replace those programs. Frankly, that wouldn't (or shouldn't) be that difficult. But again, it is not the solution that is hard to realize, it is the implementation because of all the current beneficiaries of the power class that would lose with such reformation.
But let's run some numbers just to show what's attainable. According to the US Census Bureau the national median household salary in 2007 was $50, 233, or $50,000 for estimates sake.
(I have edited this post here because I was not accurate in my numbers. I will refigure the income and taxation of projected income taxes in a few days. I did not properly use household versus individual earnings. The 2007 Census Bureau figures state 116.783 million households. Sorry about that.)
With this type of funding hierarchy we can put people to work locally, where needed to administrate the collection and distribution of the taxes and begin to reduce the size of our central government back to where it was originally designed in relation to the size and population of our country. This would, more importantly, allow a cap in the aggregate amount of taxes that a household must pay with out setting percentage limits at each level, which we know would soon be maximized by our greedy politicians at every level.
Yes, there is a danger of too powerful local politicians and administrators. But being local, we have the ability to vote out or change it quicker since we don't have to get a whole nation involved. And if it is so bad that change isn't going to happen soon enough, being a local problem, other areas of the country quite likely are more responsible and we can move there, thus eventually leaving very little for those corrupt counties to deal with. And when that happens, reform takes place. Its been proven over and over again. It is happening now between states as folks migrate out of California to more citizen friendly states.
Think about it. Comment on it. Build or offer alternate ideas. Yes, its too much change to actually ever work or be implemented. But why not float the idea? Who knows, we get enough folks to show at the April 15th Tea Party Rallies, perhaps we can get the point across that we are fed up, taxed too much, regulated too much and believe our country is in too much debt. And that our GOP and Democrat Parties need a reality check!
Now, go be prosperous!
Russ Wojtkiewicz
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