My Perfect USA

This idea has been noodling in my head and I can't stop thinking about it.

It involves the nasty politics, name calling, distrust, lobbying or lying with an agenda.

This current scenario doe not have to exist if we adjust a few things.

Presently, there are two main activities occurring in our society..

1) Productive Work: building houses, manufacturing products, providing services.

2) Non-productive work: Law enforcement, writing laws, collecting taxes, politics (Yes, all politicians try to get a bigger piece of the tax revenue pie.)

What would happen if our country focused all of its efforts on Productive Work, and eliminated as much Non-productive work as possible.

Here are some thoughts that I invite others to embellish upon.

1) Eliminate any tax responsibility from Corporations who hire people. (This would free up the money and non-productive time that corporations spend on tax accounting, tax lawyers, and all other the tax compliance issues. i.e. the employee would pay income taxes, flat rate, no sliding scale. Say 5% ????)

THINK OF CORPORATIONS AS HIRING MACHINES. That's their only job. That's it.

2) Corporations could not lobby for any special favors or consideration. In other words, if the company cannot provide a service that people want, they will have to adjust their business to supply what people DO want, else fail. No longer could companies come to Washington to lobby/ask for assistance. They are on their own.

This way, companies would no longer have a need to be "evil", there would be no advantage for them. In other words, they could focus all their time and resources to building their business and be competitive
( = more jobs. , more tax revenue)

3) The whole idea here is to create a demand for employees. If employees are in short supply, there will be competition between corporations to get them. This translates into higher pay for employees, training, health insurance, retirement benefits, and other perks to keep and make good employees. (Better perks = less dependence on Social Security and Medicare.)

Other thoughts....

If corporations did not have to deal with taxes, then overseas corporations would want to set up business here in our country = more employment for US citizens = more revenue for national security and major multi-state infrastructure.

States would have to compete for employees. In other words, those states that are more corporation/employee friendly would be more successful. This would engender a need for all States and corporations to compete against each other by improving their products, benefits, and productivity.

The dollar would be super strong, because it would represent real value made by PRODUCTIVE work, not debt or unfunded entitlements.

Corporations and employees will still be subject to the law. Environmental and employee protection laws would have to be in effect to prevent cheating the system.

ANY ACTION THAT CAUSES AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OVER OTHERS WOULD BE REGULATED.

There should be term limits for regulators:: Congressmen, senators, the president.
Each government job would have a defined and limited responsibility.

Harsh penalties for all cheaters.

Education would focus on entrepreneurship and creativity. Course schedules would be prioritized toward productive work. Laziness would be ridiculed.

Employees should realize that in order for them to be in demand, they will also have to compete against each other. In other words, they would be induced to improve their productivity and support the company to keep it competitive.

Arts flourish in productive societies. Arts are important for engendering creative solutions to current problems.

So..... noodle this in your head a little. I've heard a lot of good ideas from others that could fit into this paradigm and with a little more thought, we could have a society that eliminates much of our human suffering.

Population control? Hmmm.. think about this. If you have a child at age 20, you will be competing with them for your job when you're 44. Or, hows about this?

Eric