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Private Sector Employees: First US state to eliminate all forms of state and local taxation except a...

...state and local income tax and then to only tax business owners and not their employees or retirees.  Employers are allowed to reduce employee wages and pensions by the amount those employees/retirees would normally pay in state and local taxes.  Only business owners who do not earn any income as someone else’s employee get the privilege to vote in state and local elections and referendums.  [As private sector employees and retirees pay taxes with the income given to them by their (former) employers, private sector employers are essentially paying their employees’ and retirees' taxes.  The proposed change here simply eliminates this middleman and will save everyone time and money spent processing the tax forms of these middlemen.  It doesn’t matter if the employee or retiree is paid a million-dollar annual salary/pension, he is still only a middleman to the taxman.

As for removing the privilege to vote for private sector employees and retirees, if this isn’t done, the majority of voters will pay no taxes and yet will be able to elect politicians who have the power to set the tax rate on the real taxpayers (business owners).  If that becomes the case, politicians will have FAR less incentive to be fiscally responsible since they would be elected by people who are not spending their own money but are spending someone else’s.
 
As for the fear that business owners will only vote for politicians that slash government spending and thus government services to the poor, a lot of this will happen as the "safety net" is redefined by this real taxpayer electorate.  Advocates of Big Government will try to scare people that this future will result in no police or fire departments, but this will be shown false by the first state that makes this change to their government.  Business owners have a vested interest in good policing and fire protection.  As more and more government services are reduced or eliminated and the sky doesn't then fall, this will embolden the politicians of this new era to reduce the size and scope of government more and more.  Every inch will be fought by Big Government advocates and government employee unions, but results will win the day.  It won't be an easy struggle but it will be a doable one.]

Future Challenges: First US radio talk show host to champion this challenge and:

1) Help spearhead the state-wide petition drive within her/his state and if her/his state allows people to sign petitions online, to have a way for people to sign the petition at the show's website.  If her/his state doesn't allow online petitions, the show's website has a way for people to request referendum workers come to their homes so they can collect the person's signature and then the host/ess encourages her/his listeners to go to the show's website and make the request.

2) By way of Future Challenge #1, the host/ess is able to collect at least the minimum number of signatures needed to get the referendum on the state's ballot.

3) By way of Future Challenge #1, the host/ess is able to collect more than enough signatures that if they were votes in the next state election, the referendum would win.

4) By way of Future Challenge #1, the host/ess is able to collect more than enough signatures that if they were votes in the next state election, the referendum would win in a landslide (winning by at least a 2-to-1 margin).

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