One solution would be to abolish the Income Tax laws and substitute a Body Tax Plan. On or before April 15, the entire family would weigh in and pay $5 a pound for each and every member of the family!
The total aggregate weight of 315 million people would far exceed the income generated taxing income, thus reducing our national debt, and encouraging fat people to trim waistlines as well.
Obviously, taxpayers care about their bodies and would be willing to pay by the pound without complaining. Also, they won’t have to declare a penny of their income!
This sort of common sense approach is the direction President Barack Obama has often proposed. And he would be a perfect poster man for the lean and determined leader whom most skinny people voted for.
As the U.S. Post Office slowly fades into the sunset, with massive closings and layoffs, their facilities and personnel could be utilized for National Weighing Stations to pay body taxes. Poor people will eagerly go on diets to pay less and senior citizens naturally save money, becoming shorter and lighter as they grow older.
CPAs will have to bite the bullet and be retrained for other missions in life. For example, as physical trainers or nutritionists to keep their clients’ taxes lower.
State taxes might be relegated to family heights, measured for an additional $3 a foot when everybody weighs in.
Uncle Sam's slogan can then be: "THE MORE YOU WEIGH, THE MORE YOU PAY." Join the national campaign to reduce obesity!
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