Let's Try Democracy For A Change
GOAL No. 2
SQUARE DEAL (Part 2)
* The recently passed Health Care Reform Bill is some 2700 pages and may cost over $ 1 trillion.
* Title 26, the Federal Tax Code, is about 17,000 pages long and not even understood by the IRS.
* Title 26, the Federal Tax Code, is about 17,000 pages long and not even understood by the IRS.
To me, law-making on this scale is a strong indicator of micro-management. Its roots lie within a Legislative Branch too eager to solve every problem for us -- state, local and even individual. The result is a world in which solving any problem requires "an act of congress." Democracy requires a certain quality of information. Volume is not quality. Laws should be kept so short and simple that even I can understand them.
Action Plan: The work of President Theodore Roosevelt remains unfinished. The equity, for which he fought so strongly a century ago, eludes us still. Along with much more stringent limits on the national debt, I believe the key to restoring opportunity for this and future generations will be to reinvent our system of taxation. Some form of the Fair Tax legislation introduced in Congress last year would revitalize America in many ways:
> The Fair Tax places a single-rate tax on all final sales of new goods and services.
> It eliminates most other forms of federal taxation (and most of the I.R.S.)
> Therefore, you have total control of the amount of taxes you pay.
> No more having to pay an "expert" to figure out your taxes.
> American productivity would be freed of its current financial penalties.
> The American economy will regain its ability to compete internationally.
> Industries and jobs flow back into the U.S. = NAFTA in reverse.
> Congress loses its ability to manipulate tax laws to favor its friends and pet causes.
> The Fair Tax places a single-rate tax on all final sales of new goods and services.
> It eliminates most other forms of federal taxation (and most of the I.R.S.)
> Therefore, you have total control of the amount of taxes you pay.
> No more having to pay an "expert" to figure out your taxes.
> American productivity would be freed of its current financial penalties.
> The American economy will regain its ability to compete internationally.
> Industries and jobs flow back into the U.S. = NAFTA in reverse.
> Congress loses its ability to manipulate tax laws to favor its friends and pet causes.
Theodore Roosevelt
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