Left Libertopia
Jan. 18th, 2011 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snousleBeing a leftist libertarian is not an oxymoron. It's really quite simple. You just hold in your head the following fantasy:
The only tax is a value added tax. This is the ideal form of taxation. The tax is twenty percent. Look it up on wikipedia for details of how this works.
Every resident, upon request, gets an equal share of a monthly public subsidy fund of one twenty fourth of the tax revenue from the past twelve months. Thus, the government gets one tenth of GDP, and the citizens who wish to participate get one tenth of GDP. This makes the tax progressive, without creating the poverty traps that make the American social welfare system so dysfunctional. A record of who requested the subsidy is made openly available, with the understanding that claiming the subsidy when you don't need it is uncharitable and distasteful. Subsidy payments may not be garnished and cannot be used as loan collateral.
There are no other social programs, tax deductions, or anything of the sort, because these all represent various combinations of paternalism, micromanagement, moralism, corruption, and crony capitalism. The only people qualified to decide how their subsidy will be spent are its recipients.
Medical care is fully deregulated. Caveat emptor.
See, that isn't so hard!
The only tax is a value added tax. This is the ideal form of taxation. The tax is twenty percent. Look it up on wikipedia for details of how this works.
Every resident, upon request, gets an equal share of a monthly public subsidy fund of one twenty fourth of the tax revenue from the past twelve months. Thus, the government gets one tenth of GDP, and the citizens who wish to participate get one tenth of GDP. This makes the tax progressive, without creating the poverty traps that make the American social welfare system so dysfunctional. A record of who requested the subsidy is made openly available, with the understanding that claiming the subsidy when you don't need it is uncharitable and distasteful. Subsidy payments may not be garnished and cannot be used as loan collateral.
There are no other social programs, tax deductions, or anything of the sort, because these all represent various combinations of paternalism, micromanagement, moralism, corruption, and crony capitalism. The only people qualified to decide how their subsidy will be spent are its recipients.
Medical care is fully deregulated. Caveat emptor.
See, that isn't so hard!
