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RE: How would Steemit design a tax plan?
How about we force all government programs to run a crowd fund for all their funding. No one is obligated and everyone can choose which programs get their money.
This way taxes are 100% voluntary. No one is forced to give a dime and you will see which programs are most valuable to the public
Finally someone's talking sense! ☺
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
That would be ideal but I doubt it would happen anytime soon, even though I think blockchain would gradually change how governments function.
the block chain will really help provide transparency! I doubt that will happen as long as the majority of Americans continue to pay their taxes with out asking where it goes
I think this very doable right now. I'm not saying we stop with what is being taxed right now but, any new taxes they impose should be voted that way. And reallocate the funds already being taxed.
I say we transition all taxes to be crowd funded on the block chain. That way there is complete transparency and things like the nsa will be forced to prove its value