Personal tax direction and tax reform

Selected direction.

You decide where your taxes go

A compulsory payment does not establish personal ethical approval of every expenditure.

The proposal. Give every person full direction over their own attributable tax contribution at every level of government. Preserve binding exclusions. A local majority’s approval of a project does not authorize dissenters’ money. Assistance to other communities remains voluntary; unequal wealth alone does not create a duty to redistribute funds.

How it would work. Build budgets from actual authorized dollars. If one person assigns $3,000 to education and another assigns $500, together they authorize $3,500. Higher contributors direct more dollars, but receive no extra electoral votes or general governing authority. Begin with broad categories tied to defined government functions, with more specific choices where needed to honor exclusions. Give people simple, unbiased information about service costs, evidence, uncertainty, and consequences. Informed choices remain binding even when credible information warns that some people will probably be left without lifesaving care; that warning does not authorize a compulsory minimum or redirection.

Implementation. An allocation account could be available during tax filing, with paper and assisted channels for tax allocation and a route for people who do not file income-tax returns. Define attributable liability, joint liabilities, tax types, deadlines, commitments, revisions, nonresponse, and unused balances. Do not treat silence as authorization. Prohibit relabeling, transfers, borrowing arrangements, or substitute funding that defeats restrictions. Include overhead, mixed-purpose programs, military equipment, and replacement costs without double counting. Provide private allocation receipts and public aggregate records, audits, correction, and appeal. Solve service shortfalls through authorized arrangements; no mandatory baseline or emergency override is accepted. Historical assets and existing obligations cannot simply be reassigned retroactively.

Read this alongside The Framework and the Working Guide.

Selected direction.

Eliminate recurring property taxes

Owning property should not require recurring payments merely to keep it.

The proposal. Eliminate recurring property taxes, including more than a primary-home exemption.

Implementation. Define covered real estate and other property, existing liens, utility charges and special assessments. Preserve existing obligations through an explicit transition, and prevent an abolished ownership tax from returning as a renamed recurring fee.

Read this alongside The Framework and the Working Guide.

Selected direction.

Eliminate dividend and capital-gains taxes at every age

Investment-income taxation is distinct from relief on income earned through work.

The proposal. Eliminate taxes on dividends and capital gains at every age.

Implementation. Interest, rents, staking rewards, and equity compensation require classification.

Implementation. The direction applies at every age and is separate from relief on work and personal business income. State implementation and corporate-level taxation remain unresolved.

Read this alongside The Framework and the Working Guide.

Selected direction.

Provide the early-earnings allowance and six-step age taper

Early earnings can give people room to save, build a business and establish a household.

How it would work. Before age 30, give each person a $500,000 annual federal allowance for eligible employment compensation, net self-employment income, and qualifying personal business profits. It resets each year, covers combined eligible sources once, and does not accumulate. Apply ordinary progressive brackets to income above the allowance starting at the bottom. Thus $600,000 of eligible income before 30 is taxed as if it were $100,000 under otherwise consistent rules. Restore the resulting tax saving in six equal steps: one-sixth at 30, two-sixths at 31, three-sixths at 32, four-sixths at 33, five-sixths at 34, and all of it at 35. The fractions restore a tax bill; they are not tax rates. For income above $500,000, pay the ordinary tax on the excess plus the age-specific fraction of the difference between the ordinary bills on total income and on the excess.

Implementation. Resolve age measurement, eligibility, filing status, deductions, credits, losses, business entities, withholding, inflation indexing, and timing. Keep work income, business profits, corporate taxation, and investment returns distinct; prevent compensation relabeling and artificial transfers to younger relatives. State adoption remains provisional. Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes, including self-employment counterparts, are deferred and not eliminated. Earlier saving, investment, family formation, or lower housing costs are benefits to test rather than guaranteed results.

Scope. The $500,000 reference allowance remains fixed during the taper; the tax saving is restored rather than the allowance shrinking. Payroll taxes are separate. At age 32 with $600,000 of eligible income, the bill is the ordinary tax on $100,000 plus half the difference between the ordinary bills on $600,000 and $100,000.

Read this alongside The Framework and the Working Guide.

Selected direction.

Prefer consumption-based revenue

The tax base should reflect the framework’s preference for consumption over ownership and earnings.

The proposal. Prefer shifting most taxation toward consumption, especially harmful products, alongside the specific federal income-tax reform below. Complete income-tax abolition is not part of the current framework.

Implementation. Define consumption rates, protections, and revenue replacement. Account for declining harmful-product receipts.

Implementation. Assess household burdens, necessities and lower-income residents before setting rates, exclusions or rebates. No rates or sufficient-revenue claim are adopted.

Read this alongside The Framework and the Working Guide.