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 The FairFlat Tax 10-10-10 Combination
        The only possible way is a combination of a smaller sales tax and a smaller flat income tax. The FairTax could be set at 10%, instead of the intended 23% as the book ‘The FairTax’ states, and only applicable to purchases less than $10,000. The $100K Federal Flat Income Tax could be set at 10% of annual gross income over one hundred thousand dollars, whether that entity is a person, corporation, small business, etc.; any entity whose gross income is over one hundred thousand dollars must pay 10% of their gross income, not the net income. This would eliminate the current federal income tax, the corporate tax, and capital gains; after all, if BP pays 10% of their gross ($284 Billion in 2007, Smith Barney), other taxes would not be necessary. Both taxes used together would be very simple for people to figure out, economically beneficial and sufficient to fund the government.

                The FairTax has to be capped at purchases less than $10,000 for it to be effective. The vast majority of purchases on a daily basis are below $10K. The few that are above $10K are more beneficial tax-free than had they been taxed. This is basic trickle-down economics that can be revved-up if done properly. Trying to get a FairTax passed that will tax purchases above $10,000 will be almost impossible and definitely not worth the effort solely because of the vast majority of daily purchases are well below $10K. The choice is simply whether you want to see this come to fruition or not.
                If we don’t tax food, we lose half of the daily taxable revenue and the FairFlat Tax plan may not be sufficient to fund the government. If food was taxed, food cards could be administered to the indigent who can’t pay; much like food stamps are done today. And the government could be very liberal in who they give a food card to.
                If we tax the first $10K on any purchase, the new car sales, and thus the job creation, will be hampered extensively and may not allow this FairFlat Tax Plan to come to fruition. Whereas, if purchases over $10K are tax-free, Detroit and America’s car manufacturing will be the main beneficiary in a big way. The taxable revenue generation on a daily basis from more jobs being created and filled will more than compensate for loss of revenue due to a liberal food card distribution policy.
On the other end, it’s OK if Mr. Rich buys a tax-free $10,000 meal card at Jim Dandy’s Hamburger stand for $10K worth of hamburgers over an extended period of time. It’s OK because that $10,000 that immediately goes into Jim Dandy’s pocket can immediately go toward business expansions thus creating more jobs which in the end will produce more taxable revenue than had Mr. Rich paid the 10% taxes on $9,999 worth of hamburgers over a longer period of time. It’s just basic economics; Parker Brothers’ Monopoly.
By itself, The FairFlatTax Combination should reduce unemployment to half its current rate if not less. It can do this by allowing purchases over $10,000 to be tax-free, such as cars and houses. This should allow car manufacturers to build more cars and hire more people. This should also start to clean-up the housing foreclosure mess we have now by allowing those purchases over $10K to be tax-free. The result should be felt everywhere from the Detroit car industry to all the Ace Hardware’s and Home Depot’s throughout the nation; and everywhere in between.
By itself, The FairFlatTax Combination should eliminate our illegal alien problem by forcing all illegal aliens to start paying the taxes they haven’t been paying all the while taking full advantage of America at the expense of the American taxpayer. This should increase the nation’s tax-base by another 12 million new taxpayers who haven’t been paying taxes all this time, thus significantly increasing the nation’s taxable revenue. If they want to be in America, they’ll have to pay for it just like the rest of us. Hence the term ‘FairTax’; it’s fair, it’s as simple as that.
By itself, The FairFlatTax Combination should make the wealthy pay double, if not triple. Any time Mr. Rich wants a hamburger, he’ll have to pay 10% tax just like the illegal alien has to as well as the rest of us. However, Mr. Rich will also have to pay 10% of his personal gross income as well as 10% of his business’s gross income. This would allow Mr. Rich to continue to reinvest, thus pay more taxes and create more jobs.

 

 The First Budget Cut & Pay-Off The National Debt
       The first budget cut should be our 21st century military being distributed via a 20th century method. The way this military continues to distribute their bases all over the world in a post-WWII method needs to be changed. In 1946 it made sense to have military bases in Japan and Germany, but not now, in a 21st century world where anyone can call anyone on my cell phone almost anywhere on the planet’s surface. Today, if we want to know if there is unrest in Egypt, we either turn on CNN or go to the nearest internet receptacle and watch live video from Tahrir Square. There is absolutely no need for a 20th century distribution of a 21st century military. Most bases could be simply phased out, however some facilities and equipment can be leased back to the countries who want the base to stay and serve & protect their area. The best part is they can use their own people and their own money. The leases could be structured to allow for a transition of equipment, buildings, area, and personnel over a period of several years. Also, the leases could be on a lease-to-own basis over many decades. The leases could have clauses that would maintain the political direction of the host nation, the tenant; fines and retrieval of leased items could be the penalties for un-American acts. The revenue generated from the countries who want the bases to stay and the savings from the closed ones due to the lack of expense of keeping the American bases American would be so enormous, we could have the best and most effective military force in the world stationed at home along our Mexican border where they should have been a long time ago.

 

Health Care Solution

There may be several changes necessary in the future, but, to start with, a law should be created that mandates all federal insurance underwriting requires the health insurance company to obtain and maintain non-profit organization (NPO) status. That is, all health insurance companies must have NPO status to be federally underwritten. To make the switch to NPO status, the current shareholders could have the value of their shares amortized toward their health insurance premiums over their remaining years with a bump at age 65 to compensate for retirement; much the same as a reverse mortgage. At death, the remaining sum, if any, would be paid out as a life insurance payment to a previously designated beneficiary; much the same as term life insurance. The federally underwritten health insurance companies will all be non-profit organizations, thus all insurance company employees still get paid, profits are funneled back into lowering premiums and the insurance lobbyist in Washington loses most of the reason for staying in Washington and remaining as an insurance lobbyist

   
Term Limits
        A law could be created that would limit any citizen of the United States to a total of ten cumulative years of elected public service during a lifetime. After ten years of elected service in any combination of offices, the citizen would no longer be allowed to run for elected office; the citizen can be appointed to positions, but not elected. Congress people who vote for this law will have their ten cumulative years of elected civil service “grandfathered-in” and therefore they will have their full ten cumulative years of elected civil service available to them no matter how long they have actually served. Those who do not vote for it will not be “grandfathered-in”.

 

 Restore The Line-Item Veto

Restore the line-item veto back to the executive branch and create an amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing its place in the executive branch for as long as the executive branch exists in this country. It should have never left the executive branch and it never should leave again. The line-item veto is the biggest, and one of the few, tools the executive branch has in its toolbox to keep the balance of power; the president uses it to keep Congress in check, which is what it was designed to do from the beginning. Without it, the ‘pork’ and ‘entitlements’ that get attached to bills are so numerous and frivolous that they make the news fairly often; and yet no one seems to mind. It begs the question of ‘why?’ The only reason the line-item veto was somehow taken away from the executive branch could only be to limit the powers of the president, thus tilting the balance of power back into Congress yet again; and yet no one seems to mind.

 
 
MORL privilege of voting. Mortgage, Own, Rent or Lease – MORL. A person’s name and signature on any one of these documents for at least two months allows this person the privilege of voting. That is, any citizen of the United States Of America who mortgages, owns, rents, or leases any fixed property has the privilege of voting.
 
 
 
Sell off the remaining slices of the pie to highest bidders, including services, land, buildings, equipment, etc. Allocate eliminated postal jobs to such departments as the FDA, FTC, FEMA, etc. Allocate remaining funds to Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.
 

The Food & Medicine Card

Food cards could be administered to the indigent who can’t pay; much like food stamps are done today. And the government could be very liberal in who they give a food card to. Technology could actually tie that food card to that individual’s tax liability and therefore add or subtract amounts necessary to balance liabilities or allow tax-free food purchases for certain indigence. I agree on the lack of morality of taxing food on the indigent, but I also have an issue with Donald Trump and Warren Buffet eating tax-free right alongside the homeless; with a name like Buffet, he could buy the entire buffet. A Food/Medicine Card can, not only specifically tax the correct person, it can also get the proper medicine at the proper price to the proper person; it could also specify purchases for the indigent like tax-free carrots and taxed beer, for example, tailored for the specific person. The entire food stamp program could be upgraded and replaced electronically with a food card. Technology could do this efficiently and cheaply. This is easily done with a 21st century server at a cost that is less now than it ever has been in the past.

Campaign Reform

        A law could be created that states that any media broadcast of campaign advertisements has to be matched in length and duration of broadcast by the opposing candidate before the first candidate can broadcast.
        This includes everything except the spoken word and the unpublished written word. That is to say that if Mr. Rich wants to pay for two minutes of campaign advertisements, but his opponent, Mr. Poor, can’t afford it, then Mr. Rich will have to pay for Mr. Poor’s ad time if Mr. Rich wants to advertise bad enough. If not, then neither gets ad time.
        This law would be administered by a simple form that has to be completed and filed with the FCC, before the broadcast, that has both political opponents listed for equal time on the specific media station. Heavy fines could be levied for transgressions and the money put toward the victimized candidate’s ad time.

 
Currently, there are only two ways to select judges: appointments or elections. There should be a law that states the process by which a judge is selected starts with each legislative house, the House and the Senate on any local, state or county level. Both legislative bodies will research thoroughly and choose a qualified candidate to be placed on a ballot in the up-coming election each. The voters, in turn, will have their chance to vote between two well-researched candidates for a position that requires qualifying abilities that cannot be had through pure election nor through pure appointment. By utilizing both the Senate and the House, political by-partisanship will be regulated better than any other way. By giving the final vote to the public, irregularities, such as favoritism, bribery, etc, that occur with appointments, will be reduced due to futility in the end. Call it “Appointments AND Elections”.
 
Repeal Minimum Sentencing

        Minimum sentencing needs to be repealed which would free our judges to make their own decisions. One option is to change minimum sentencing to minimum guidelines for judges who are appointed to their positions and keep it as minimum sentencing for judges who are elected to their postions; eventually eliminating all elected judges in the country for appointed positions processed properly through proper committees in legislative and executive branches. 
        Additionally as a check, impeachment proceedings and removal of a judge from the bench needs to be made easier and simpler. Currently, to have a judge removed from a case, there is a head judge who makes that decision, thus self-administering themselves. This is wrong and needs to be eradicated. (See No Self Administration)

No Self-Administration

        Administration of the administration should be done by branches that do not administer themselves.
        For example, the legislative and executive branches could administer the judicial branch; the judicial and legislative branches could administer the executive branch and the executive and judicial branches could administer the legislative.
        Thusly, if Congress wants a pay-raise, they have to get it approved by unanimous vote between committees in the executive branch and the judicial branch; perhaps the majority of the White House office and majority of the Supreme Court.
        Accordingly on a local level, if a judge needs to be changed from one case to another, the complainant needs to have a signed document from the local executive committee and one from the local legislative committee to have the judge changed.

States Rights To Pass Federal Laws - The Vast Majority Rule

 When this nation started, there were 13 states to make a Congress. Today, people wonder why Congress is so messed up and yet they seem to forget we now have 50 states for a system that was designed for 13. There have been many times in the history of this nation where Congress passed federal laws that were wrong. They have virtually no retribution.
 The Constitution can be altered to include the ability for states’ congresses to pass federal legislation by vast majority; Congress retains simple majority. That is, it would take three-quarters (75%) of all the states’ congresses to create federal laws or over ride federal vetoes. Additionally, state-generated federal legislation has to have three-quarters of each state’s congress vote for it to pass the bill, along with three-quarters of all the states’ congresses, before it becomes law; this is called vast majority and is no easy task.
 Federal legislation passed by the states’ congresses would have precedence over the President and Congress in Washington, D.C

 
 The Proper Method To Regulate Marijuana

        This method should be used for any substance that carries the same mystique that marijuana carries.The proper regulation of marijuana starts with the Importer/Wholesaler. The Importer/Wholesaler would be a licensed importer from international farmers and domestic farmers with absolutely no taxes, tariffs or any other charge on the farmer. This way the drug cartels are cut out of the picture financially and not legislatively; the legislation has never worked in the history of marijuana and continues to not only fail to this day but also financially fund the drug cartels as well. That won’t happen if the farmer has a legal way to sell his product at a proper price driven by market forces between the different licensed Importer/Wholesaler’s across the US. The first requirement to even get the privilege of paying the licensing fee to become an Importer/Wholesaler is to first become a Non-Profit Organization, or NPO. All licensed Importer/Wholesaler’s will be NPO’s. This way there will be plenty of financial room for the $50 per ounce tax that the retailer pays upon buying from the Importer/Wholesaler.

The Retailer has to buy a license also, but the only real qualification is the storage place of the marijuana, including amount of area for amount of marijuana; the fees could be structured to reflect area of storage per year, or something along those lines. Other than that, there would be no other qualification for the retailer. Once the taxes of $50 per ounce is paid at the Importer/Wholesaler NPO, the retailer would be free to do whatever he wanted to do with it knowing that the storage facility has to be maintained.

The user, whether recreational or medicinal, has to purchase from a licensed retailer. It could be tightened to only licensed medicinal users, but it appears in the long run to be futile at best.

The end results include the drug cartels getting upset at first, but eventually running out of money. The people in the cartels slowly and insidiously over time walk away to do more profitable things, such as growing marijuana, selling marijuana, or processing some sort of product made form cannabis in general, whether that’s the female plant or the male; there should be a general resurgence over a relatively short period of time. Peace should return to our Mexican border eventually and our unemployment rate should begin to drop.

 

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