President Funkedup Second Term

[funkedup]

1. Mandatory Norplant (or male equivalent*) for people under 21.
2. Mandatory Norplant (or male equivalent*) for all welfare recipients.
3. Eliminate Federal Witholding.
4. Replace Social Security with need-based welfare program for elderly.
5. Capital punishment for child molestors.
6. Federal Interstate Speed Limit:  "Safe and Prudent"

*Federal funding for R&D program to make this possible.

[Wlfgng]

add:  Consumption tax to replace all other taxes
(Gov't has to make some money somehow)

[funkedup]

In the 2nd term I am still letting the IRS collect money, just not by confiscating income before the worker even gets his check.  
In the 3rd term we will deal with the IRS more thoroughly.

[Curval]

Will there be a third term?  You just threw the entire revenue collection capability of your government out the window.

[Mathman]

Any country that pisses us off:

[Kanth]

Receipts for all taxes collected telling exactly where your money went and how it was spent.  

Capital punishment for all violent offenders.
3 strikes and you are dead.

[Dune]

1. Feed the homeless to the hungry

2. Build bigger rockets so we can shoot nuclear waste into the sun.  Or send it to Mongolia.

[AKDejaVu]

You would have never made it through the first term.

AKDejaVu

[Airhead]

Originally posted by Curval
Will there be a third term?  You just threw the entire revenue collection capability of your government out the window.

Not to mention our election laws, which limit a President to two terms consecutively.

[funkedup]

Originally posted by Airhead
Not to mention our election laws, which limit a President to two terms consecutively.

The implication is that I will do something about those laws.

[funkedup]

Originally posted by Curval
Will there be a third term?  You just threw the entire revenue collection capability of your government out the window.

Witholding is just the process where they take your income directly from your employer before you get it.  They can (and do) still collect taxes in the old-fashioned way (send a check in on April 15).

[Curval]

Originally posted by funkedup
Witholding is just the process where they take your income directly from your employer before you get it.  They can (and do) still collect taxes in the old-fashioned way (send a check in on April 15).

Gee Funked, you'd think an accountant might know that.

I know they can and do collect taxes in the old-fashioned way.  The thing is, it is mighty, mighty easier to control and mighty, mighty easier to collect when you withold.

Theoretically YOU are the leader of the government...you NEED that money.

The IRS has a hard enough time assessing and collecting the taxes owed by self-employed people or those who report on financial transactions where taxable income is earned outside of normal employment.  Verification of those figures is an arduous process and the accuracy, even at peak efficiency, of those returns are dubious at best.  Inevitably you will collect less than you actually are owed...no-one pays MORE than they should.

Witholding removes much of the doubt and places the onus on the employers and not their employees to withold the correct amounts.

It also results in a lot less people serving jail time for failure to make payments, or not paying enough.

Essentially it is a big nanny, but one that you better hold on to unless you want your government to go bankrupt.

It's cool...I'm happy to serve as your Finacial Advisor (having one here might come in handy after you retire after-all). But we NEED that money.  Get rid of number three...I'm with you on everything else.

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by Wlfgng
add:  Consumption tax to replace all other taxes
(Gov't has to make some money somehow)

I've always liked this idea!

eskimo