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Oh, right. I did skip stating an important step in the plan [so, upvoted]. I would do away with the withholding scheme (perhaps creating a parallel savings mech
by sokoloff 3y ago
Oh, right. I did skip stating an important step in the plan [so, upvoted]. I would do away with the withholding scheme (perhaps creating a parallel savings mechanism) and force income earners to write a check/do an ACH for their taxes.
Under that system, I'm totally fine if people get a $1K refund after writing a check for $15K in taxes withheld. That would still demonstrate the linkage sufficiently to inform their voting choices.
- RC_ITR 3y agoSure, but again to your own point, the share of voting Americans who don't earn income (and therefore pay no taxes) because they are over 65 is already 1/3 and only going to increase.[0] [0]https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/number-of-individuals-who-voted-in-thousands-and-individuals-who-voted-as-a-share-of-the-voter-population-by-age/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/number-of-individu...
- sokoloff 3y agoThere will always be zero tax payers with the right to vote. That's OK, especially since most of those who are now over 65 and retired worked and voted on reps/platforms/policies from 18-65 and earned income/paid taxes for probably ~40 of those years.