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Tax no one below a living allowance, tax comparable economic income comparably, expose hidden tax spending, return pollution rents, and make filing automatic and free.
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The tax code should collect the revenue democracy has authorized through rules a household can understand, a sophisticated owner cannot arbitrage away, and Congress must score like spending. Progressivity follows reciprocity: people who gain most from stable law, markets, infrastructure, and compounding ownership can carry more without surrendering agency or innovation.
Comparable capacity to pay should face comparable tax, while the first resources needed for a usable life remain protected. Every preference must identify the public value purchased and end if it fails.
Primary — Inclusive Growth and Economic Development. The allowance protects work and care; equal rules reduce rent-seeking; productive investment remains favored only for a demonstrated reason.
Secondary — Privacy, Security, and Trust. Prefilling uses data government already lawfully holds, with correction, paper access, strict tax-data purpose limits, and human appeal.
Secondary — Access to Information and Connectivity. The public tax-expenditure budget makes implicit spending visible and machine-readable.
Republicans usually emphasize rate cuts, expensing, and taxpayer choice; Democrats usually emphasize credits, higher top-end taxation, and enforcement. Both add favored provisions without removing old ones and often present tax expenditures as different from spending.
The Innovation Party protects a universal living allowance, preserves productive investment, taxes economic gains more equally at the top, and forces every preference into one public budget.
The strongest objection is that “economic income” and externality pricing grant government broad valuation and modeling power that will spread downward. The answer is statutory thresholds, ordinary-household exclusions, realization for almost everyone, deferral with interest, public methods, independent appeal, and automatic expiration of any pilot. The position holds because liquidity difficulty justifies timing rules, not permanent exemption of capacity to pay.
High-income and ultra-high-wealth households lose preferences and pay more. Industries built on tax arbitrage shrink. Polluters and consumers see formerly hidden costs. Tax preparers lose simple-return business. Government bears technology, privacy, and appeal costs. Dividends, living allowances, transition rules, and long payment periods mitigate concentrated burdens. The policy accepts the remaining cost to finance the common systems that make private accumulation possible.
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