Laws I would Like
I was daydreaming about better laws. Laws that treated families like real organizations and that tried to encourage family independence and identity.
All adults pay 10% of their income to their married parents (and something also to the place where they grew up?). Along with a bare minimum means-tested subsistence scheme for the truly destitute elderly, this is what Social Security should have been.
Home purchase a tax deduction up to $100k.
Productive assets deductible and/or amortizable for families.
Parental aid to children in paying for maternity expenses or new home purchase also deductible.
Deductions or subsidies for energy independence and emergency preparedness. Home solar plus batteries or neighbhorhood mini-nuclear reactors. Every neighborhood should have its own CNC mill for turning out parts. Subsidies for gardens and food storage and trees and animals.
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E.C.
February 17, 2021
One happy trend here in Utah is de-regularization of cottage industry-sized businesses. For example, a local beekeeper can sell their honey – and related products – at their farmer’s market without having to be licensed for ‘food production’. This allows a family who has a few hives to sell their excess without getting penalized.
I feel like life in general would be a lot simpler if we could just cut down on the massive amounts of red tape and bureaucracy that’s grown up over the last 100 years.
I love your idea about deductions for independence/preparedness.