TAX REFORM

Current TAX Analogy:

IRS: You owe us money that you worked hard for!

CITIZEN: How much do I owe you?

IRS: We know how much but you have to guess!

CITIZEN: What happens if I am wrong?

IRS: You go to PRISON!

BOTTOM LINE IS THAT WE NEED A SIMPLIFIED TAX CODE THAT IS FAIR

There are 443 regulatory agencies according to USA.gov as of 2016. These regulatory agencies require funding which drives up the average amount that a taxpayer pays and the overall national debt comes close to $183,000 per taxpayer and $68,400 per citizen as per the foundation of economic education. We simply cannot continue this trend of spending money that we have no realistic way to pay for. I would suggest that we get back to our Conservative roots and start deregulating and dissolving federal agencies. Many of them are redundant and technically there is no authorization for them to even exist. One such agency is the Department of Education. The DOE should be abolished and the power returned back to the States as it is a States rights issue and not something that the federal government should be involved in.

I often say that the closest thing that we have to everlasting life is the establishment of a federal government agency, because once they are established they never go away.

Keeping in mind that following the path of deregulating and abolishing these agencies would save hundreds of billions of dollars per year we also need to get back to the basics and get rid of the 6,550 pages of tax code that gets into the millions of words that are near indecipherable by the average citizen.

There are several ways to do such a thing and one that I think is easy is to get back to the basics. A simplified tax code for businesses and the average joe.