>>Taxes are based on a 40 hour week - with median pay stats.
My taxes are based on annual income. It doesn’t matter if I worked 10 hours, 40 hours, or 80 hours a week to earn it.
And obviously, taxes aren’t based on a system where they figure out how much they need and divide it by the number of worker-dollars earned because we spend $1.40 for every tax dollar taken from the population.
So, tax rates are set by the maximum they can make them and still get re-elected. In today’s America, taxes are not really a revenue generator. They are a societal control device to punish and reward behavior, to take money out of circulation to control consumption, and a means to differentiate the two halves of the RepubliCrat party.
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That's what I was 'trying' to get to last night.
The Gov't would have to 'cut' spending if citizens hours were cut across the board to the lower hour standard - unless the hourly wages were adjusted up on the business and public sector's payrolls (taxpayer) back.
To put it another way, people live in different types of houses (sizes) and the towns property tax to reach a goal in order to pay for salaries, roads, schools, police, fire, etc.(This is assuming they have a budget - the country doesn't :>)
Say, all of a sudden, every house was wiped out and replaced by the same small house design - where once there were medium and large houses. Everything else stayed the same (with gov't increase spending) How much would property taxes be on those small houses?
If we all paid the same - how much would "Same" be in comparison to before?
That's what I meant about the standard 40 hour week(middle class tax), as with houses, some work less and some work more, some have more amenities and more land. But there is a median, taxes are structured for taxation goals - how would it work with a 'perfect world' 25 hour week?