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RE: How would Steemit design a tax plan?
Not entirely crazy, but you're forgetting some key components of how taxes work that would make this ineffective. Few individuals hold all the wealth, most of it is tied up not only in assets, but through corporations. In other words: you're relying on a pool of donators who're literally unable to pay the costs.
I'm a huge fan of the crowd sourcing phenomenon, and I'm all about finding new uses for it, but this isn't one of them.
But if you'd like to prove me wrong: go ahead, I'd like nothing more than to be wrong. Start a programme for creating government services through voluntary crowd funded taxes, God speed.
just imagine how much accountability there is on the block chain. now imagine the government claims they lost 6 trillion dollars again. well guess what we could trace those funds. Also when it comes down to it if the people what a service and 10 million people donate a dollar I'm sure we don't need the donations from the few greedy corporations to have local projects succeed. As well as knowing who the few greedy corporations are so you could choose not to do business with them. this would work better than today's model by far