Click the link above to read the details on this tax revenue idea. I was working on solving freeway congestion and making controlled access politically acceptable but it is also a great potential revenue source for financing new road construction.
Tax Thursday Three
This is the big one. Two hundred years ago peoples main assets were in farms, land and homes. Now because of our new economy most of our assets are in stocks, bonds and bank deposits. They should be taxed as assets in the same way that real property is taxed. The publicly traded stocks in the USA are worth roughly 35 trillion dollars. One percent of $35 trillion is $350 billion. now we are talking about real money.
Tax Thursday Two
There are nine million families in the United States with second homes. How about an excise tax on all of them. Starting at $100 on a cabin in the woods of Wisconsin to $10,000 on a big second home in Aspen. Estimated revenue Ten Billion dollars. It can be spent on helping the homeless.
Trump Made Me Pee in the Desert
We went south on Saturday 12/22 to visit friends and to see the Saguaro National Park. It turned out the park was closed because of the fight about the budget. No big deal the visitor center was closed but the trails and the viewing spots were open. Except they had locked the bathrooms. Continue reading “Trump Made Me Pee in the Desert”