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Profit-Sharing Taxation and Level Rights
Fitting Democracy to the Problem-Source is like fitting a glove to a hand.
The power to solve human problems should be appropriated to the level of humanity where it originates. The levels begin with the individual and proceeds through the family and community to the state, nation and earth. Presently, world-wide, the concentration of problem-solving power is at the national level. This power encourages corruption from dictatorships and party politics.
As Lord Acton said, "ÂPower tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutelyÂ(1887). Acton noted an inverse relationship between power and morality. An example is an immoral action qualified by "And, it is legal."
Power concentration leads to fewer problems being solved. Throughout history, this concentration is a ticking timebomb : Bastile Day, July 4, October Revolution, May 1945, etc.
States rights have consistently been a dog whistle for a political power grab. For a world with fewer problems, level rights requires the following:
Profit-sharing taxation: The most powerful committee
in the US House of Representative is the Appropriations Committee. It determines
where collected taxes are appropriated, that is, who gets the pork. It is
an age-old fact that who controls the money controls the nation:
Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care
not who makes its laws. (Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790) This principle
is self-evident in short-sighted people voting their weekly paycheck instead
of long-term morality, e.g., US 2024 election.
The real profit in any interaction is the time created/saved. It can be
monetarized into funny number on funny paper. True, real profit-sharing
occurs when the profits are split equally between the problem-sufferers
and problem-solvers. This Golden Mean between the extremes optimizes
problem-solving. Profit-sharing taxation will keep money close to the source
of the problem for faster problem-resolution.
Level of tax allocation |
100% |
Payee % |
Recipient % |
| Elementary Democracy | 50.0000% | 25.0000% |
25.0000% |
| High school | 25.0000% | 12.5000% |
12.5000% |
| District | 12.5000% | 6.2500% |
6.2500% |
| State | 6.2500% |
3.1250% |
3.1250% |
| Nation | 3.1250% |
1.0625% |
1.0625% |
| Manheaven Commission | 3.1250% |
1.0625% |
1.0625% |
Profit-sharing taxation and level rights foster the Morality of More Time for more freedom and happiness.
When national politicians have less taxpayers' money to fight over to bribe campaign supporters, then they will focus more on national problems rather than re-election. Of course, with term limits we can end the scourge of re-election addicted habitual politicians. There will be less inflation from fewer bridges to nowhere.
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