Question : Tlingit’s Income Tax Plan

Tlingit has an income tax plan that is simple and bipartisan.  In this plan each citizen will contribute to the federal government depending on what party you are affiliated with.  There will be only two parties: Republican or Democrat.  Therefore, under Tlingit’s income tax policy if you are an Independent you need to decide what party you belong to.

How will Tlingit’s income tax plan work?  Well, it’s simple.  His policy will be based off of the W4 Form.  On this form there will be an option to check Republican or Democrat.  From this information accounting will know how much to withhold from your paycheck each month.  For republicans it will be less than democrats since they want their taxes lowered.  It will be a flat tax for both parties: for democrats it will be 70% of what they make to support their social programs, and for republicans it will be 15% to support their less government initiatives.

A nationwide database is needed in order for this plan to work.  It will be kept to keep track of individual voting records in case they want to change parties.  For example if a republican wants to become a democrat he just can’t change to one.  He needs vote on democratic issues or candidates before he can switch.  In other words he needs to show good faith that he wants to become a democrat.  This needs to be done with at least two political cycles to show he is sincere with his desires.  The same is true with democrats; they also must show good faith in order to switch parties.

I think this is a sound income tax policy because the republicans get what they want and the democrats get what they want, so everybody is happy.

Points will be awarded on the following criteria:
1.)      If your comments improve on Tlingit’s tax plan
2.)      If you agree with amount of withholding for democrats, less or more, you need to explain why
3.)      If you agree with amount of withholding for republicans, less or more, you need to explain why
4.)      How would this impact the future political landscape in the future?
5.)      If you come up with a different tax plan of your own
6.)      If you agree or disagree with the two party rule, explain why

On any one of these six criteria you may be awarded.

Answer : Tlingit’s Income Tax Plan

I'm trying to decipher the secret, underlying point to this question.  Meh, I'm sure it'll crop up later.

The problem is, Republicans actually want to spend just as much as Democrats.  The military-related funding alone is roughly half of federal non-SSI and non-Medicare tax dollars.  I'm assuming that Republicans still want to partake in SSI and Medicare, otherwise there will be an awful lot of them SOL when they hit 65 and are uninsurable and have no retirement savings?  After all, most Republicans in Congress voted for the unfunded Medicare Part D (the prescription drug bill).  Perhaps they were counting on that 70% Democrat tax bracket to pay for it?

I also assume Republican want paved roads, safe food and safe buildings, viable federal police, a justice department and border enforcement, so we can't split funding those departments along party lines, right?  And there are other agencies like the CDC, which I assume they want to keep funding as disease doesn't discriminate between Republicans and Democrats.  Somebody's going to need to 'man up' and decide who's paying for what!

So if the eventual point is that nobody would want to be a Democrat if they had to pay 70%, as opposed to 15%, that might be true.  But I think your tax plan would fall apart pretty quickly when society crumbled into decay with everyone paying 15%, everyone voting along the Republican platform, and spending continues to go through the roof.  And it would work the same the other way around if everyone was forced to be a Democrat...innovation would decline and every company in America would move to China...which is kind of ironic given the Chinese are actual communists.

Here's an idea!  We could split the country in half...let's say, red states (Republican) and blue states (Democrat)?  Then we could see how well each group fared under their own policies?  Then again, we kind of have that now.  The irony is, the red states take more tax dollars than they pay into the federal government.  How would that factor into the 15% tax plan?

For all our bickering (which has actually got much better in the last 200 years given our representatives don't shoot each other anymore), like it or not, united we stand and divided we fall.  We currently lie in an unhappy medium between 70% and 15%, and I wouldn't have it any other way.  Besides, the bickering does give a lot of people a reason to wake up in the morning.  Perhaps myself included?  :-)