Pozessed
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I think it may be easier for our states to be taxed as opposed to the citizens directly. I think the states should report their data to the IRS and the IRS should tax the states via how many people are employed and contributing to the state. Then the government could apply a tax to the state that reflects the working population.
So say Rhode Island has only 100 tax paying citizens and they all contributed 30% of their paycheck to federal institutions, i.e taxes, medicaid, social security. It would be up to the state to collect those funds from its citizens as opposed to the government in my exchange. The government would take it's 30% from the states budget as opposed to the citizens. The state could decide how to best earn this money, via taxes, or other means.
I think this may be a better idea than our current practice because as is the federal government is trying to do a job the states could already be doing for them. Any organization should have a trusted and efficient form of delegation. I allege that our current practice of collecting and distributing taxes could be better delegated if the states were the only entities paying the feds rather than each citizen. There would obviously have to be some provisions on how the states can and can not collect taxes, but I think there are laws and amendments already in place to safe guard most over reach of power.
Just a thought. Sorry if this has been discussed before, I didn't see anything similar when I did a search.
So say Rhode Island has only 100 tax paying citizens and they all contributed 30% of their paycheck to federal institutions, i.e taxes, medicaid, social security. It would be up to the state to collect those funds from its citizens as opposed to the government in my exchange. The government would take it's 30% from the states budget as opposed to the citizens. The state could decide how to best earn this money, via taxes, or other means.
I think this may be a better idea than our current practice because as is the federal government is trying to do a job the states could already be doing for them. Any organization should have a trusted and efficient form of delegation. I allege that our current practice of collecting and distributing taxes could be better delegated if the states were the only entities paying the feds rather than each citizen. There would obviously have to be some provisions on how the states can and can not collect taxes, but I think there are laws and amendments already in place to safe guard most over reach of power.
Just a thought. Sorry if this has been discussed before, I didn't see anything similar when I did a search.