Our mission is to promote the Sustainable Tax as a replacement to the US Income Tax System. The Sustainable Tax hopes to capture the attention of all tax payers and government to use their vast resources to analyze the Sustainable Tax and elevate it to replace our current system.
The Sustainable Tax is needed because the current income and transaction tax systems are at best, inequitable, unnecessarily complex, and wasteful. The current income tax system is not transparent due to the voluminous provisions. The Sustainable Tax conversely is 100% transparent. Ultimately, the current income tax system distorts economic decision making and is detrimental to the economy. The Sustainable Tax requires no loop-holes or provisions that require a tax accountant.
What does good government look like? The Sustainable Tax believes that this is a government that maximizes your freedom of course, but more specifically maximizes your freedom in the economy by efficient taxation. However to answer this question to your satisfaction, it begs an equally important question. What is the appropriate way to fund that government…
Learn MoreIncome should be taxed in a progressive manner – Taxing income is counterproductive to the economy. Spending fuels production, services, and investment. Progressive taxation is a noble idea, however applying this to transactions is counterproductive. It is not fair to only target assets in manner described above – nor is it a matter of fairness since the asset carries the tax.
Learn MoreThe sustainable tax was not hatched from research work or necessarily for the purpose of improving the current U.S. income tax system, albeit it needs much improvement. It was conceived with the help of George H. Bush during his 1986 stump speech in Pioneer Square Oregon. George doesn’t know this of course…
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Your thinking that I must be an economist or just a political junky venting. Who else would compile a website such as this? I’m not an economist and I’m probably much like most of you reading this web site looking for change with the U.S. tax code. Nor am I formally educated in economics. During the last 20 years I have had a wonderful career with the California Department of Transportation as a civil engineer.
Like some of you I surmise, stepping out of my comfort zone and do something different that needed to matter immensely was on my horizon. I am choosing to because there is astounding evidence to support this revolutionary concept and I believe it is the solution to give us the economic freedom we deserve.