Lore wrote:And you would do what Plant? Got a better plan within reality to move forward?
I don't know about plant, but yall always accuse the right of not having a plan; when in reality, it is simply that we won't go along with the left's redistribution priority plan.
Let me give you a right wing plan.
Repeal - income tax, gift tax, and corporate income tax; ss & medicaid taxes; end collection of any income data on citizens.
Enact: Carbon Tax. The tax gets calculated each year to cover the past years federal expenditures. Linear variable on carbon mass added to the atmosphere, no cap, no minimum.
Adjust SNAP/WIC/etc to adjust for the modest increase in taxes that the poor would experience while consuming the tiny amount of energy that they are able to buy on their teeny tiny incomes.
tada, no increase in the size of government; government drastically reduces the level of annual deficit; economy gets a modest negative signal by withdrawal of deficit spending, business and consumers both feel tax pressure to encourage them to seek lower carbon or zero carbon emission processes. Burn less carbon, pay less in taxes.
Set in the law a percentage breakpoint, where once 80% of energy is produced from less than x(very low) g carbon / kwh energy; the tax system swings to a no-exclusion, annual asset tax to make up for any change in needed tax revenue going forward, using the numbers from the 80% point as the benchmark.
Tada. productivity, investment, efficiency, profitability, all strongly, positively incentivised. EzPz burning of carbon to produce free value, strongly, negatively, incentivized.
Best of all, with a bit of modest tweaking on SNAP, you should be able to minimize the change to the current burden sharing chart.