Forum Post: Imagine a taxation system, that was set by the populace themselves. Imagine being able to decide, what you are taxed, where you are taxed, and how much.

Firstly, please allow me to open with thanking you personally, whoever you are, for simply being a part of all this....To you and all of occupy I give my grattitude, my heart, my mind, and most importantly my unity. I am here, I occupy, to solve things.

To the OP: I would propose a non-heirarchial structure, of taxation; in a basic summary.....

The taxation system would be broken into parts, and, each part would be supportive of simple, interlinked and harmonious goals:

1. To ensure profit is only ever a measure of benefit to community
2. To ensure that individual wealth is only accumulated through benefit to community
3. To collect, cut and distribute funding according to the wishes of the community
4. To maintain funding to existing communal systems, and generate regular updates on the results of them.

Imagine if there was an online virtual platform which allowed you to 'rate', every single product or service. So for instance you could 'rate', the oil industry as 'bad', or 'very bad', or 'not so bad'. You could rate it, against every other industry, sector by sector. We then tax, those products and services rated as 'bad', and subsidise products and services that are 'good'. McDonalds, would be taxed, and spirulina subsidised, oil taxed, biodiesel subsidised. Cigarettes taxed, cigarette patches, subsidised. This would support our commercial sectors, in a way like no other, as the populace at large would have finite and exquisite control over every industry, and just imagine the job creation.

Then, we total the cost, of all maintenance of every single communal system. From hospitals, to roadworks....everything. We add it up, and put it on a sliding scale, that will form income tax.

As you select a percentage of tax you think an income bracket should pay, ($10,000 this %, $1mil that %), other tax brackets move in response, ensuring the maintenance of everything is met. Each individual choice, is inserted and calculated, averaged and reflected, and the tax rate is set. This could be, real-time reflective.

This is a basic summary of a couple of key points I would see in a communal taxation system. Others include, ability to cut funding, death taxes, and, industry taxes, which are very similar in nature. Just think, as a direct result, there would no longer be a problem that YOU personally, could not do something about. You could vote directly with your tax dollar, and choose directly as part of a whole, how much tax you pay. Further to that, you may under the system I would propose, put forth ideas, and concepts for the community to fund.

I think (naturaly I'm bias ;)) this taxation system in it's entirety, may very well, be a solution to all that ails all Americans.....and the complete plan in it's entirety, may very well solve, all that ails the world....

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/50500650/yourtopia-your%20official%20final%20beginning.pdf

Please see chapter 4, for the taxation system.