RE: How would Steemit design a tax plan?
One small but, I think, potentially useful, idea:
A 1:1 deduction in individual tax payable, for donations to Non-Profits who provide healthcare (actual care, not insurance) services to individuals at or under the poverty level.
This should be acceptable to all sides. It’s a tax-cut and a tool to increase a transition from government-bureaucracy in medicine to more efficient non-profit management of medical services for the underprivileged. And it would specifically assist the weakest and most vulnerable members of society by definition.
It’s a relatively simple (relatively being the opereative word) method of incentivizing the funding of more medical care for those who need it by those who, for whatever reason, have more wealth, without punishing those with the wealth, but, instead, actually provides financial incentives to give money directly to help the people suffering the most in society.
It’s actually kind of unbelievable that it’s not a thing already.
No one should be forced to pay taxes. Any forced taxation is theft
I'm not trying to be nasty, but you'll see if you read that again up there, there is not a single tax proposed. It's a tax-cut.
I'm not talking high theoretical stuff here (which, you'll find if you search a little through my comment history, I probably agree with you on more things than I disagree with you on).
Just a pragmatic, real-world type of thing as a proposal assuming we live in a world where the State, in all its many forms, exists, and people are looking for ways to reduce it's footprint while helping out the people in society who have traditionally been (and continue to be) treated more poorly by the State than even the rest of us.
a deduction and eradication are two different things. a tax deduction still leave some taxes.