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Hello, I'm trying to create a tax plan but I need a little help in the details department. I created a simple framework to build off of. I need some more forward thinking ideas! Thank you in advance. Please read my very basic framework.
The American Tax plan
Elimination of federal income tax on service members (active, reserves, National Guard personnel)
Reduction of federal income tax on first responders (firefighter, police officers, medics, and certain medical personnel)
Elimination of federal income tax on veterans with combat experience and veterans with service related injuries
Imagine changing your spark plugs every time you had a problem with your car. This may work if you had an issue with your engine BUT would changing your spark plugs fix a blown tire or a brake problem? When we use ideologies, we believe that there is only one solution to a problem. This line of thinking does not work for fixing your car and it also does not work for fixing America. Modern cars are very complex and need modern thinking to repair them. Whigs solve problems by finding the best solutions. That solution maybe to change the “spark plugs” or it maybe to “change the tires”.
In a recent commercial for a bank, a man is withdrawing money from an ATM machine. On the display it asked the man to accept an ATM fee. The man stopped and thought about what to do. This was followed by various individuals trying to convince the gentlemen that there was no reason to be different. They told him to “just accept it” because “resistance is futile”. This same analogy can be applied to someone entering a voting booth. We are told that we have to decide between two unappealing choices. If one would to question this logic then one would be told to “just smile and accept it”.
Last Year, Michael M. Phillips of the Wall Street Journal wrote an article detailing the "plight" of the Modern Whig Party. The headline of this piece states "Whigs Try to Tap the Angry Middle". I disagree with Mr. Phillips' assessment of our party.
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