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Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: funkedup on January 08, 2003, 03:37:17 PM
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.
Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: Wlfgng on January 08, 2003, 03:38:06 PM
add:  Consumption tax to replace all other taxes
(Gov't has to make some money somehow)
Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: funkedup on January 08, 2003, 03:40:35 PM
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.
Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: Curval on January 08, 2003, 03:45:19 PM
Will there be a third term?  You just threw the entire revenue collection capability of your government out the window.
Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: Mathman on January 08, 2003, 04:00:19 PM
Any country that pisses us off:
Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: Kanth on January 08, 2003, 04:22:37 PM
Receipts for all taxes collected telling exactly where your money went and how it was spent.  :D

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

Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: Dune on January 08, 2003, 04:26:09 PM
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.
Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: AKDejaVu on January 08, 2003, 04:27:34 PM
You would have never made it through the first term.

AKDejaVu
Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: Airhead on January 08, 2003, 04:35:29 PM
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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.
Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: funkedup on January 08, 2003, 04:50:13 PM
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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.
Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: funkedup on January 08, 2003, 04:51:47 PM
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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).
Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: Curval on January 08, 2003, 05:55:04 PM
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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.
Title: President Funkedup Second Term
Post by: eskimo2 on January 08, 2003, 06:28:40 PM
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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