The goal is to make the U.S. fiscally solvent without austerity, new taxes, or inflation, while creating a national framework that rewards productivity, innovation, and savings.
Core Mechanism • Weekly payroll contributions (e.g., $600) are flipped by the Federal Reserve through reserve banking principles → $5,400 in new capital. • Half is returned to the worker, the other half split between the National Budget and Social Security Trust Funds. • Every participant receives a 10% annual capital return, aligning personal income with national capital growth. • Traditional taxes (income, corporate, payroll, capital gains, etc.) are eliminated.
Debt & Sovereign Model • The Top 250 wealthiest Americans contribute capital infusions and sovereign equity allocations to retire the federal public debt. • The Bottom 250 U.S. counties receive capital-flipping authority through a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) to resolve student loans, consumer debt, and state liabilities. • Replaces leveraged buyouts with equity-based value creation — capital and ownership stay domestic.
Outcomes • U.S. transitions from borrowing to self-financing. • Public debt paid down through internal capitalization. • Citizens and enterprises receive direct capital returns instead of tax refunds. • Incentives are aligned: those who create value share in national upside.
I will post the full plan after careful consideration and critique from the HN community!
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Questions for HN
1. What are the macro-economic or technical flaws you see in flipping payroll capital this way?
2. Could a Fed-IRS dual system manage this at scale using digital rails or tokenized reserves?
3. Would equity-based debt retirement (Top 250 / Bottom 250) be politically and legally feasible?
4. How might we pilot this through an existing SWF or state-level trial?
Appreciate any thoughtful critique — especially from economists, engineers, and policy thinkers interested in systemic reform.
dangus•2h ago
If I understand this right (and I might not) it sounds like you’re just making this into a flat tax that is wildly regressive.
It sounds like your system essentially has 0 taxes for the trust fund kids who have no income and live on asset appreciation and trading. No payroll, no tax.
I think it should be pointed out that there’s nothing wrong with the current system in terms of being able to pay down debt to a more reasonable level, it has been the conscious choice of the donor class to continue to cut taxes to the wealthy (tax cut and jobs act, big beautiful bill). Without those cuts the US system would easily produce a surplus. Instead, we have a system that transfers wealth from the federal government to oligarchs.
SDedu•2h ago
dangus•1h ago
Do you think you can address how this can be made to be fair to the working class?
It sounds like this means that trust fund kids and landlords never pay any tax, and are highly incentivized to hire as few people as possible. (I guess you can say that payroll taxes have the same effect but corporate, property, and capital gains taxes do not).
For example, with no property, corporate, or capital gains taxes in place, this appears to heavily incentivize hoarding of rental properties by those with the means to do so.
As an upper middle class person myself, if this tax system came into place I would immediately liquidate my life savings and buy as many rental properties as I could afford and then quit my job. I’m pretty sure that I would make a better income than I do now doing productive work as my tax rate would drop from like 40% to 0%.
SDedu•1h ago
dangus•1h ago
When you see someone like Jeff Bezos paying an effective tax rate of 12% you want that rate to be zero, while the median worker is getting a tax hike paying 50% ($600 per week is about half the median weekly individual income).
You’ve also made the tax so flat that it disregards regional economic differences. If you live in Alabama you’re paying a wildly higher tax rate than if you live in California. (You gave the example of $600 rather than a percent, please correct if you meant something else)
You call it an income-driven economy but only the income of the people doing labor is taxed.
If anything you’re doubling down on the most flawed aspects of our current system, introducing insane new ones, and possibly the most annoying bit is you seem to have zero interest in making even the most half-hearted elevator pitch as to how this could possibly make life better for the 99%.
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