50% of Americans don’t pay federal taxes thanks to the Bush tax cuts. Taxes on families are low due to expanded child tax credits. I personally feel taxes, regardless how low, need to be paid by everyone. That income tax line on a pay statement is the most effective way to make people into fiscal conservatives. The Bush tax cuts did the opposite.
Yep - if you don’t pay taxes you don’t vote that year. If you take ANY govt. money, including farm subsidies, you don’t get to vote for 20 years. If you work for a corporation that gets some kind of subsidy - you don’t get to vote.
That alone would solve most of the problems in the US.