Reforming Government Revenue System
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The concept of reforming the government's revenue system holds special appeal to anyone who believes in governmental activism - it takes a place of prominence alongside economic health and social welfare as areas of endeavor where the government can directly affect the public's lives. Yet even opponents of governmental activism embrace the need for revenue reform: for those who believe that the government should do less with less, making the revenue system as efficient as possible is a necessary adjunct.The given thesis of this paper is to assume that one has been elected President of the United States with the backing of a secure and loyal political party holding two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress. This is the politician's equivalent of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - far-off, unreachable, but nevertheless dreamed longingly for - howsoever, taking this as our basic situation, the next part of the given thesis holds that our empowered President was elected on a platform dedicated to reforming the governmental revenue system and revitalizing state and local governments: our mythical President's stated belief is that inadequate revenue has been a significant element in the decline of state and local government services. We will develop our President's revenue reform polity from there. Dismissing at once the obvious temptation to ignore the President's stated revenue beliefs because they were uttered in the heat of campaign battle and hold no pl
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ould also be subject to examination and alteration. Is a multi-tiered collection system the most efficient - or does it contribute to the bureaucratic layers of inefficiency and double-workload wasting both the individual's, business' and the government's time and money? This President's answer, as indicated by the question, is straightforward: aim towards one-stop taxation.
This, of course, would be a major revolution in terms of political action: hidden taxation abounds on every level, from the seven-to-eleven cents charged on every candy bar to the myriad forms of consumer, import, export, environment, productivity, life's worth living if you keep on giving taxes that come at the American economy from every direction. Politicians hide taxes to keep the public from being angry at them.
Our President's "one tax" reform would probably not lower the immediate tax burden - let us assume that all of those revenues are absolutely necessary right now in order to ensure the continued funding of government administration as it goes through these reform changes - what it would accomplish, however, is the radical streamlining of the taxation process in such a manner that would create an enormous amount of savings in terms of ac
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