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An Idea About Taxes  According to the Tax Foundation tax freedom day for the year 2000 was May 3. We work until then just to pay our tax bill; federal, state, and local. Clearly, reforms are needed. No one would tolerate a phone bill freedom day in the month of February much less May! We do so because our tax bill is invisible. It will be painful at first but I think its time for us to face our fears and pay our bills.
My proposal is simple. Eliminate income withholding altogether. In its place I propose that the federal government send each and every taxpayer a bill, either yearly or monthly. The bill should be itemized showing all the expenses that we are incurring as citizens. Our portion of the bill will be clearly marked for each expense and a total bill will be issued. Paying taxes under this system would be no different than paying your telephone bill, or rent.
> The advantage of this system is that it makes taxes a visible phenomenon. No more uncertainty about where our money is going and what our part of the bill is. Everything is out in the open because everything is itemized. This will instantly make government more accountable to the taxpayers. No one hesitates to call the phone company if they want to dispute the accuracy their bill. That same accountability will be in place for government as well. Cost conscious taxpayers will not tolerate some of the expenses that we now ignore because they will no longer be invisible.
A possible flaw in this proposal is the taxpayers' ability to pay the bill. The argument goes like this: We have to withhold taxes from people's pay otherwise they would just spend the money on something else and we would never collect any revenue.
There are two responses to this. First, it seems very demeaning to assume that ordinary citizens lack the ability to pay their bills. Most people are capable of paying their phone bill, their rent, their car payment. Why not their tax bill? To keep expenses lower, or to make the bill more manageable, we can issue bills on a monthly basis. I believe people will quickly learn to plan for this expense.
Secondly, if the bill is in fact too high for the average taxpayer this should tell us something significant in and of itself.
Government consumes too much of our GNP as it is and sending taxpayers a bill would probably clarify this fact. Our government is of the people, by the people, for the people. We the people can pay our own bills!

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