Quite a few years ago I was listening to Mike McConnel (a local conservative talk show host) and He had an idea that made a great deal of sense to me. Basically, it went like this:
- All income taxs must be paid in cash on April 15th at your most convenient government facility. (To avoid individuals being robbed on their way to pay their taxs, maybe a check cashing window could be set up right next to the payment window). No withholding by the employer, the individual would be responsible for making the full payment on tax day.
- Move election day from the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November to April 16th.
The whole idea being that if we all had to see exactly how much cash we are turning over to the government every year, we might all pay a little more attention to who we were electing. I figure that if we did this for a year or two we would probably have a very large turnover in congress and a whole lot of the waste would be eliminated in government spending.
The other idea I had is that we could make tax payment day the same day as "Tax Freedom Day" (the day in the year that the "average"American has theoretically made all the money they will need to pay their yearly tax's and after which they get to keep their income for their own purposes). This year, tax freedom day is actually April 13th. Not too long ago, tax freedom day was closer to the beginning of the month or earlier. It is highly likely that within just a few years, tax freedom day will be nearer to May (give it long enough, tax freedom day may make it to early in November, thus fulfilling the idea above). Again, if more people were aware of how long they have to work every year just to give the government "it's" money, maybe more people will start paying attention to government spending.
On the same subject, a friend of mine has threatened to print bumper stickers saying: "If I'm paying your mortgage, blow your horn".
By the way, I was gone a while from the blogasphere mostly because I didn't have much to say that I thought would be of interest to anyone (including myself).
4 comments:
Yep, I'm one of those people who is actually going to be filing his taxes today. When the Fed, State and City are combined I owe money so I was in no hurry. If people had to pay all of their taxes at once there would be riots in the street and the government wouldn't even get half of their money. Plus, the government enjoys their interest free loan that they get from everyone getting a tax rebate.
I must say that being self employed, as we are considered, has given me a new disgust for how much the government takes. When Jon worked for a company, I saw the amount being taken out of the check each week, but it wasn't the same as paying cash for all the taxes at the end of the year. It really, really, really sucks.
Dan,
"and the government wouldn't even get half THEIR money"? Thats part of the problem with our government. It's our money we give to them to use on our behalf (supposedly)
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