Strategy Page - Taxation

As a party we have one goal: Promote Freedom and Liberty. This needs to be kept simple and straightforward. There will be plenty of complexity and there will be opportunities to pursue other goals by individuals. But the party needs ONE thing it can back up to and considering the current political situation the average citizen will support any candidate that will stand up for their freedom.

From here on this post will be a very brief discussion of individual strategies. They will correspond with a specific topic. Each one of these will get it's own page with a plan to move forward and implement the tactics that will support that strategy.


Strategy: Shift taxation from labor to capital.

Payroll taxes retard job growth and punish the people who actually work. They raise the cost of employment for employers who will rationally choose to invest in capital instead. In addition as we use more robotics and AI our labor participation rate will approach 0 and that tax base will disappear. As the labor participation rate approaches zero there needs to be a clear plan to move towards a universal basic income. This is how it will be funded.

This means taxes on robots, machinery, and AI/software services.

On this issue we can look forward and be the party of the future. This policy will be extremely popular with the working class. It really is a no brainer.


Strategy: Develop a Universal Basic Income.

I know that this will be counter-intuitive to conservatives and people who believe in self reliance and individuality. I understand. The alternative is worse.

We are heading quickly to a time when the vast majority of people do not have to work. In fact there will be no point for them to work. Taxi Drivers and Truck Drivers are soon going to be unemployed in mass. Within 10 years. Farms that produce our food are almost totally automated now. It just will not be long before most of us don't have a job. Within a few years there will be machines printing houses in lines. Robots will be making the Robots. Pick any profession and within 20 years a robot/AI will do it better. If you want to quibble I will give you 30, 40, 50 years. At some point within our lifetimes this will happen.

What are the alternatives at that point?

A system that taxes capital, driverless Taxi's for example, and distributes a universal basic income will maintain autonomy of the individual.

The alternative will be a concentrated elite that can produce products very cheap and very fast and a lot of people who have no job or income or way to pay for those products and no place in society. In this situation the elites will be able to come up with ways people can "pay" them for those goods.


Strategy: Eliminate mass transit. Support driverless vehicles and an open vehicle control grid.

This isn't just because Mass Transit is a moving force behind central planning. Mass Transit is just going to be a total waste of resources within 10 years. Period.

The future of transportation is a grid of driverless vehicles that come to any point you are at and take you to where you are going with no stop lights, parking lots, or traffic jams. No mass transit system will be as convenient or as cheap. We will not have to build anymore roads than we already have unless it is to expand to a new area. No eminent domain issues is another bonus.

There will also be almost zero traffic related deaths/accidents. This reason alone is going to set off a preference cascade towards a driverless automated system. I have heard it dozens of times: "They will pry this steering wheel out of my cold dead hands!" During the transition some kid is going to get run over by a human driver and her mom will be on TV crying and they will start calling the holdouts awful things not starting or ending with "murderer." It will happen overnight. Book it. They will have special tracks and preserves for people who want to self drive.


Strategy: Flatten the tax code. Eliminate all diversions, deductions, distortions, subsidies and loopholes.


Strategy: School Choice Now.


Strategy: Universal Health Care 

Universal Health Care. Not single payer.

Turn Medicare/Medicaid into a universal catastrophic coverage that covers all costs over $100,000 in a calendar year and build up an emergency room system that does not accept walk-ins. Force providers into a cash price/reimbursement system rather than a 3rd party payer. Have a government match on Health Savings Account deposits. Provide a voucher to current medicare recipients to get supplemental coverage.

Politically more people are insured than Obamacare. You are also supporting a free market. Something like this should be on Trump's desk tomorrow.


Strategy: Learn and speak to the Science of "Climate Change"

We have over 4 billion years of climate evidence. Ask the people pushing this theory what the correlation coeffecient is between CO2 levels and Temperature? Ask them how much a 50 parts per million change in CO2 levels is supposed to increase temperature globally based on that correlation coefficient. Ask them what the confidence interval is on this statement. These are the scientific values you need to have to make a scientific conclusion. Otherwise you are just spouting nonsense.

Talk about the actual Scientific Method. The Scientific Method is based on skepticism. You produce a hypothesis, or theory, based off of observation. You test the hypothesis with gathered evidence and you produce a conclusion. You then open up all of your research and conclusions to peer review. Your peers attempt to recreate your results and try to find error in your conclusions.

None of this has happened with climate change. Original data has been hidden and destroyed. Purveyors of this theory have been caught multiple times "adjusting" the data in dubious ways. Most importantly anyone who demonstrates skepticism inherent in the actual scientific method is blacklisted from all government grants and if they do not have tenure are fired. Climate change is acting like a religion and the scientific method is purposely being killed off in primary education to turn science in this country into a cult.

It must also be pointed out that companies like GE have made billions off of green subsidies. Al Gore is a billionaire now. Climate Change has and always will be a hoax that was created to make wealthy connected people rich off of government money and take control of hydrocarbons and by extension the entire economy and every citizens livelihood.

There is a wide variety of actual data out there that doesn't need to be "adjusted" into a hockey stick. And to answer my question above about a correlation between temperature and CO2? Real scientists have done the actual work and it shows that over the last 400,000 years temperature changes and CO2 levels do correlate. CO2 levels change 400-1000 years AFTER the temperature changes.


Strategy: Put an automatic sunset on every law and every program.

As we move forward society is going to change more and more rapidly. Technologies are going to disrupt current systems and government programs that were useful, or not useful, 10 years ago will no longer be anything other than a complete waste of resources. Our government is currently is infested with useless government programs and 80 year old laws. Force congress to do it's job.


To be continued...