Let’s become reductionist and take it down to the basic part. The concept of taxes or tithing was for the community to support a priestly or witch doctor class which helped them with their medical and physical health.  Taxes also take the communities ability to pull money or resources into a military effort or to help sustain protecting the people that protect the tribe.  This way these individuals who were taking care of the community could take time for chanting or fighting.  Members of the tribe that took charge of these activities eventually realize that bankers also use these funds for their own families and their personal wealth.  

 

The taxes were originally collected as a portion of the produce that a farmer or rancher could create.  If a rancher had 100 sheep at the beginning of the year, and at the end of the year he had 110 sheep, then he would pay a 10% tax on his increase or he would give them one sheep.  If he paid %10 of all of the sheep that he owned he would be 11 sheep. Eventually he would end up with no sheep. 

 

This is like a bank account that you have less than $1000 a month in. They give you a free account, but they charge you ten dollars a month for the bank fee. Eventually you will have no money.  If you go to the red cross and donate more blood every month than your body can replace, eventually you will have no more blood left and you will die.  Then you will no longer have any blood to donate for the red cross.  

 

This system of collecting goods or services as a tithe or tax for the community worked quite well in small communities, and goods or services were required by the chief or soldiers.   As the communities became larger, it became more difficult for a tax collector to transport the goods and services to the storehouse.  When money started being used this facilitated the collection and transport of the taxes to the king.  Unfortunately as with any event where a person is given unlimited power and authority, the collectors took more than their fare share, and took extra for themselves.  Eventually as the church and the state became separate entities, the state wanted their tax and the church wanted their tax and this was quite taxing on the populous. 

 

In today’s society the main purpose of taxes should be to stimulate the velocity of money.  As in the example of the ten people in the room when one person becomes greedy or fearful puts the dollar in their pocket. The job of the tax collector is to take it out of their pocket and put it into circulation. This exactly like what a responsible parent would do with a child that is hoarding all of the toys.  They would tell their child that they would have to “share their toys, and not to keep them all for themselves.” When a government charges you taxes, they never keep this money.  If this was the case, then all of the governments in the world would have an excess. They are always in deficit, so they are also trying to pay bills. 

 

Governments in the past were always getting projects whether military or taj mahals that would require more funds than the populous would provide.  This caused them not to be able to pay for basic goods and services of water, roads, and military protection.  Bankers/accountants realize that there is an opportunity for them. They would keep track of the amount of goods or value in the treasury, and they could let the king know what he could or what he couldn’t afford to do.  They would also keep track of the money coming in for taxes and tithes.  In return for their service they would keep a small portion so that they could afford to live.  Eventually they realized that the king had no real clue of what was coming into the treasury.  It became easy for them to bleed a larger portion into their pocket. Eventually the king would want to come to them and do a project. Then the king would be told that there aren’t enough funds in the treasury. The accountant/banker having bled the funds from the treasury for many years would suggest to the king that he had a source of funds that he could loan at an interest rate. This was much cheaper than going to war or digging up more gold, so the king accepted the offer.  

 

Now the whole kingdom was indebted to this banker.  The soldiers could not be paid if the banker didn’t come up with the funds. This made the army in control of the banker. The banker started doing this with multiple countries so that when two countries would go to war against each other, they would loan money to each of the countries and the longer the war lasted and the more intense it became, the more they would make. In order to cover this interest, the kings would have to charge higher taxes. The citizens no longer paid 10%, it became more than 60%, and continued to climb.  

 

The citizens worked six days a week to cover this interest rate. If the bankers had not loaned the king's money, it would have taken just one day a week to cover the cost of running the kingdom.  Now the bankers were even more able to bleed more money out of the treasury.  Which gave them a larger sum to give out in loans.  Because they became concerned that individuals would create counterfeit money. They had the king pass laws that only they were able to mint or print the official money. Besides stealing money from the treasury, they were able to manufacture money on their own. 

 

Everyone talks about printing money, but you can also create a coin of whatever value that you want to have.  In the United States, the government cannot print paper currency.  Only the bankers or Federal Reserve is allowed to print the currency. Several years ago the senators were arguing over having sufficient funds and were trying to shut the government down. President Obama threatened to mint a trillion dollar coin. As the president is allowed to mint coins.  As we know it would be impossible to mint a trillion dollars of any metal into one coin. It is the value that is stamped on the surface of the coin that tells the people how much it is worth.  

 

The Senate became frightened when they heard of this. This would be overwhelming the country with funds that it was not accustomed to.  It would also destroy the role of the Federal Reserve and all of the power that they had over the economy.  It would eliminate the power the Senate has for passing a new budget.  When the Senate heard of this they promptly passed the new budget.  

 

Currently in the United States the government owes more than $18 trillion dollars to debt.  This is interest paid on money borrowed from the Federal Reserve from Social Security Payments made by the citizens and from other countries.  Even though the interest rate that they are paying is very small, even a 1% interest on 18 Trillion dollars is a huge amount of money. 

The only reason that they have that the bankers are the Federal Reserve is to keep a control on funds. If they spend wildly without thinking or action, this could start to devalue the currency.  If the government was to start funding $20 trillion dollars a year on projects, this could escalate the cost of goods and services to create these services as their would be not enough raw materials, products, and labor to take care of these.  

 

This is like if there were ten houses for sale in a city and there were 100 people that wanted to buy them.  This would create a price war, where the people selling the houses would continue to raise the prices of their houses until the bidding was over. If out of these 100 people 20 had unlimited funds, and the rest were on a fixed income, this would create a homeless population in the city.  New houses could not be built for them because price for houses had been established at 10 million dollars each.  Prior to this a house could have been built for $100,000. 

 

Unrestrained growth can create problems. The original purpose of the bankers was to regulate the growth for the projects for a gradual increase of wealth for the community.  If you are going to create a building you need enough trees, metal, water, sewer, and garbage collection to handle this new growth.  The problem with the bankers is that they became corrupt and took more than their fare share. 

 

This is like a parasite that takes too much energy from its host and ends up killing its host. Every human has an intestinal tract full of parasites. Without them we will die.  These parasites provide a service that helps us digest food.  When they no longer serving us, they cause our demise.  

 

For many years, the bankers claim to have something in their vaults that would back the money that they were printing.  Since the vault was locked and had armed guards, no one could check to see if the gold or silver was actually there. Eventually society became so dependant on them that they admitted that there was no metal to back up the money. 

 

In reality, you never want gold to back your money up.  If there was a drought or a natural disaster and traded your dollar bills for gold, you would still be without shelter, and with no food to eat.  

 

The only thing that needs to back the money up are goods and services and people. As we have learned earlier, you can be on a desert island with a million dollars of gold and still starve to death.  It is only when you get to a city with a group of people or a boat comes up to the island will your life be saved. 

 

How do we get people to back the money? Currently it requires people to build and create roads, hospitals, and schools.  The number of people is limited by the population.  If the government wants to create a new bridge then it can print money up to pay the people to build the new bridge. The new funds are  now backed by the bridge. If the government wishes to build a new school, then the funds will be backed by the new school. If the government wants to print money to build weapons this becomes a double negative. You put all of the energy into a weapon which blows up and destroys roads bridges and schools. By doing this it would limit the amount of money that goes into the economy and keeps everything more stable.  Just as in a body builder could have a good diet and exercise routine, and maintain very good health.  If this body builder starts injecting steroids into his body, the muscles will increase quite rapidly, but this will eventually cause disease and death for him. 

 

In a society there is no problem with growth as long as it is regulated so that it doesn’t cause problems.  If a city is built faster than you can divert water to it to create a sewer system, then you are going to have some problems. The main problem with our economy is greed and corruption.  

 

Even in situation where the government uses money to build valuable projects, taxes could be levied against excessively large incomes. Loopholes could be given where these wealthy could reinvest their money into projects or given to charities which would stimulate the economy and the velocity of money. The wealthy could still have their name on these projects getting recognition for their generosity to schools, roads, hospitals, or space ships.  

 

Another reason why taxes are charge is because they want you to think that money has value.  Whenever someone takes something away from you, you become fearful and upset. You could have an old TV in your basement that no longer receives regular TV channels or its resolution is really poor, but if someone walked into your basement and took this from you, you would feel quite hurt.  If you have ever seen a child surrounded by toys, crying about nothing to do.  Then you take one of the toys and start playing with it. The child will then want the toy you took from him.  

 

If you have ever seen a dog by three or four sticks and they are ignoring them completely.  If you grab one of the sticks and take off with it. The dog will chase you down and try to take the stick back.

 

We always seem to want what other people have or what they are taking from us.  If you see a paycheck for a $1000 and $300 is deducted in taxes, you become quite upset.  If you receive a $1000 check with no taxes taken out, you rejoice. Of course, you didn’t see the other $300 that your employer had to pay before they wrote you the check.  Since you never see the $300 and you don’t think that it was ever taken from you, you don’t become upset about it.  

 

If the employer didn’t have to pay the extra $300, then they could have written you a check for $1300. When your employer pays $500 a month for your insurance, this means you that you are being taxed $500 for medical care. This is $500 more that your employer could be paying you. When the government offers you Universal Health Care for an extra $200 a month, you feel like you are being ripped off, even though you feel like you are saving $300 a month. All of this loss or gain is barely a figment of your imagination. 

 

In the US currently, out of $100 of taxes, 30 cents goes to food stamps, 65 cents goes to welfare, $45 goes to corporate subsidies, $50 goes to military. The people that are taxing you are the wealthy, not the poor.  If you are in business and you have to pay taxes and fees to stay in business, this was created by other established businesses to keep you from competing against them. A new business may spend 40-50% of their proceeds to cover these fees. An older more established business with a larger customer base may spend less than .01% of their sales on these fees. All of this is designed by corporations that influence lawmakers to pass laws that give them a monopoly of the economy.  

The government doesn’t need to charge income taxes to cover its bills. 

 

Just property tax and money coming in from other sources actually more than cover the expense.  

Tax structures are designed for the flow of money to stimulate the flow of money.  

 

Write offs can also stimulate the economy.

 

Stocks. Were bought by wealthy people. These were not meant to be used by the poor.  1929 stock market crash.   

 

There is a time for everything in life.  There is a time for Zen when we become focused on one thing at a time, or Pachamama where we aim to experience everything of the multiverse.  As there is a time and place for taxes: there is a time and place for Flat Taxes, a time for Recessive Taxes, and a time and place for Progressive Income Taxes. When understanding how to bring balance into our world using these three taxes, the fear, anxiety, and frustrations of taxation become unnecessary. 

 

Flat (or Fixed) Income Tax is a tax that is the same no matter what funds were transferred in the transaction.  The taxee pays the same amount if they are on the higher end transactions or if are on the lower end of the transactions.  Situations that are optimal for such a tax structure are when the economic system becomes in balance. The Flat Tax enables a society to do something more by focusing their funds to innovate and make amazing projects happen. Such projects can range from housing local families to creating a particle accelerator to zero in on the Higgs Field.  If everyone is getting paid the same amount, then it is necessary for the funds to get pooled to afford things that can bring in more competition into the market place.

 

When the competition in the marketplace becomes too steep, and members of society for whatever reason, are left unfed, without transportation, and without a place to live, it is time for slower rise in the Progressive Tax. This is a tax that structures an economy in which people pay more as they earn more and more money.  A person struggling to pay the electric bill would pay less, whereas a person that is banking enough money to fly around the world, and entertain guests in their mansions would pay more.  If the opposite happens, then the person that has lots of money pays a little bit of taxes, whereas the person that is making a little bit of a money pays more. The latter will only swing the economic system more out of balance.  Large majorities of a person’s earnings should not be sequestered unless they have reached a level of income in which they can monthly lap the globe with the transportation of their choice.  

 

Finding Balance is the most important part of Political Systems. It is not so much about whether their should or should not be public housing in a community, rather it should be seen as what does the constituency need? Politicians here need only listen to each other.

 

Many people describe something as fixed is that it remains the same. When they talk about progress, they think that we move forward. At the beginning we had a certain amount, then at the end of the day we had more.  Politically people think of someone that is a part of the a progressive tax, that they would be more for the stuff that builds community such as schools, public transit, and food.  Now it is much different. Progressive Tax, however is something that is slightly different.

 

What a Progressive Tax is a tax that progressively becomes greater as the income of an individual becomes greater. For instance, someone that makes a penny a day here wouldn’t get  taxed, whereas someone that is making a million (106) dollars could pay forty percent to takes, a billionaire (109) could pay would pay eighty percent. 

 

Plot of Flat Tax

Plot of Recessive Tax

Plot of Progressive Tax. 

 

Money is the right of a society to remove from individuals from possessing. Because money is only a part of for the course of betterment as humans be continued, in the situations when humans cannot be responsible for large amounts of cash, that they intelligently will hand it over to people that can. Spending billions of dollars is a huge responsibility, keeping it can ruin towns that have ten thousand people, pillowcasing trillions of dollars can ruin nations.