Time Tax
"Time is money", Ben Franklin, 1748
In the recent press release,"Your Pre-School Child or Grandchild will probably never graduate from high school.", it was predicted that public services would decrease due to the inflationary hydrophilic loop of
More CO2 > More Droughts > More Forest Fires > More CO2 ... extinction level event.
As tax revenues decrease and costly environmental problems increase, local, state, and federal public agencies will not fund needed services. Wait times for service will stretch to longer delays if not canceled outright.
One can see the increase in climate driven problems in the underground pipes that transport water, gas and sewage. The weather extremes cause pipes to crack requiring expensive equipment and worker wages. When driving around, one sees pipe replacement crews everywhere. National news regularly report major pipelines failing.
When originally buried, the pipe material was selected for a given temperature range. Likewise with roadways, heat has caused not only highways but airport runways to buckle. Train tracks are not immune to deformation from higher heat. Of the increase in airplane tires blowing out, is it due to hotter runways and hotter tire air?
Make no mistake that ground temperatures have changed. When I moved into my home in 1979, I had year-round cold tap water. About 2005, I noticed tap water was warm in September. Each year, the transition from cold water to warm water has come earlier. Now, the transition is early June.
Humanity has two approaches to solving this growing environmental problem. Habitual politicians choose the traditional mode of throwing money at the problems. This is not going to last. One can see the hand of habitual politicians in the "Get the Lead Out" program.
Anyone who says the $8,000 to $12,000 contractor charge per home is "free" is a liar. Our taxes will go up for this "free" service. In Virginia, there is a TV campaign with a little girl who is telling people to get the lead out. She is advocating de facto increased taxes and CO2. Climate Hell has several causes: Cancers, Criminals and Lemmings. This little girl is a "climate cockroach." Lead leaching ended long-ago in quantities that harm people. I have lived in a century-old house with a lead pipe that has neither killed me nor affected the quality of my thinking. Contractors are increasing their elsewhere prices (inflation) due to this artificial, unneeded demand. The billions of dollars could go into education. Nothing is free if it increases local, state or national taxes. Does it matter whether you are raped by your neighbor, his father or his grandfather. Of course, there is the gang rape of taxpayers by a greatest ever President and his corrupt administration. |
Timism proposes a Time Tax. Every American would annually give 400 hours of community service in productive problem-solving services. With an average hourly wage of $25 per hour, that would be Ben Franklin's "time is money" value of $10,000 in problem-resolution.. With almost 350 million people, that is about $3.5 trillion. This Time Tax would balance public budgets by not borrowing money to hire employees with benefits. The benefits and ramifications are discussed in 24 in 4, Business Ramifications, Healthcare Reform and Roadmap to Saving Life on earth (the Primary Moral Imperative).
One's access to healthcare will be determined by one's fulfilling one's Time Tax. One will be reviewed quarterly with reminders if one is falling behind in one's Time Tax. The primary reminder will be the De-Electrication for a number of days. If one will not meet a need of civiilization then one does not deserve the benefits of civilization.
In an era of declining tax revenues, the only way to maintain public service is a Time Tax. The organization of people to pay their time tax will be at the high school level, hopefully a soon-to-be press release: "Re-Timing Civilization from High Schools". There will be increasing numbers of Time Tax jobs. Lifehours compensation be recorded like a paycheck into a lifehour savings account. There will be emergencies in which one may labor all waking hours to address an emergency with the hours recorded. Some will get ahead the needed monthly average and will take a break from Time Tax work.
Habitual politicians are to blame for our mess. The Get The Lead Out campaign is another example of their Saltwater solutions that worsens a problem. They gloss over their failures by saying they are "responsible." They don't respond to their ability. Rather, they respond to their campaign contributors for re-election payments. We need term limits.
Interesting fact: Currency taxes are an indirect "taking" of your current work time. Americans work one-third of the workweek to pay currency taxes, that is, 13 hours out of a 40 hour workweek. A time tax is a simple direct taking of citizens' time to solve problems.
In its taxes, actions, laws, and regulations, government is a time manager of its citizens lives ... for better or for worse. Timism's brainbee proposals a step to government of, by, and for the people. Through brainbees, problem-prioritization is a bottom up process not a tone-deaf, trickle-down corruption. Timism is Managing without Managers in politics.