{"id":2988,"date":"2022-11-08T15:53:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.representationamendment.com\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2025-10-02T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:04:13","slug":"find-your-tax-code-soul-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.representationamendment.com\/index.php\/find-your-tax-code-soul-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Your Tax Code Soul Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Find Your Tax Code Soul Mate<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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You have a tax code soul mate.<\/strong><\/p>

Many people go their whole lives not knowing their tax code soul mate.\u00a0 Don’t be one of them. Find your tax code soul mate today.<\/p>

There exists a tax code that fits perfectly with your principles and values.<\/strong>\u00a0 A tax code that, while it may not make you actually enjoy paying taxes, brings you peace.\u00a0 You’ll sleep well at night knowing your tax code soul mate is hard at work, raising revenue for the federal government or changing people’s habits according to your principles and values.\u00a0<\/p>

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Your Principles and Values<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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What do you value? What is important to you?\u00a0 In what direction would you nudge the American people, if you could? What does your America look like in a few decades?<\/p>

People value different things. Privacy. Fairness. Equality. Equity. Opportunity. Efficiency. Transparency. Simplicity. Frugality. Wealth. Power. What you value forms your views on tax code policy.\u00a0 What you value determines your tax code soul mate.<\/strong><\/p>

To help you find your tax code soul mate, pay attention to what you like or dislike about the power Congress wields and the current tax code.<\/p>

Maybe you’ll value a tax code that involves less paperwork.\u00a0 If you work a side hustle like driving for Uber or you are into day trading stocks, your experiences with the tax code might involve a lot of records management.<\/p>

Perhaps the environment is your highest priority.\u00a0 Tax policy for you is a means to encourage people to reduce their greenhouse emissions. You want a tax code with the flexibility to alter the habits of individuals and corporations.<\/p>

If you pick through the issues carefully enough, you’ll find your tax code soul mate hidden in there somewhere.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Clash of the Tax Code Soul Mates<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Your tax code soul mate clashes with the tax code soul mate of other people.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>

Maybe you want privacy and simplicity from your tax code soul mate.\u00a0 The current tax code is neither private nor simple.\u00a0 But your neighbor wants equality, and that requires knowing details about how people get their money.\u00a0 And leveling incomes carries with it some complexity.\u00a0 The current tax code is almost certainly their tax code soul mate.\u00a0 You can’t both get your tax code soul mate.\u00a0 Somebody loses.<\/p>

In a nation of more than three hundred million people, you’ll never satisfy all the people on something so personal as how you tax them.<\/p>

Your representative must do battle in Congress if you want to see your tax code soul mate become America’s tax policy.\u00a0 Or, if your tax code soul mate is the current tax code, you need your representative to defend it in Congress.\u00a0<\/p>

Nothing is set in stone.\u00a0 Even if you get your way, people with different tax code soul mates will try to unseat you.\u00a0 The nation is always in flux.\u00a0 As the nation changes, maybe the people will want a new tax code.\u00a0<\/p>

We don’t have that flexibility with the current Congress.\u00a0 Congress won’t budge on the tax code.\u00a0 If you want a new tax code, you’ll have to change Congress first.<\/p>

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A variety of characteristics make tax code soul mates unique.<\/strong>\u00a0 Your values affect your opinion of the characteristics of a tax code soul mate. As you evaluate the characteristics that make up a tax code soul mate, you may need to accept some characteristics of lower value to obtain characteristics of higher value in your tax code soul mate.<\/p>

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Privacy<\/h4>

You want to block government from knowing how you earn, give, save, and spend your money.\u00a0 You aren’t looking to launder money or commit any other crimes.\u00a0 It simply isn’t the business of the government what you do with your money.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Simplicity<\/h4>

The complexity of taxes gives you hives.\u00a0 Just the thought of having to organize, document, and itemize all your expenses for the past year overwhelms you.\u00a0 You’re OK with paying taxes, but does it have to be this exhausting?\u00a0 You’d love a tax code that makes it easy for you to pay.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Climate Change Prevention<\/h4>

Left to their own devices, people and businesses would drive the environment into the ground.\u00a0 Congress needs to limit climate change and the tax code offers powerful tools for incentives and punishments.\u00a0 You see these tools as critical to achieving your goals.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Power<\/h4>

Let’s be honest.\u00a0 The ability to tax is power, and power is the very essence of Congress.\u00a0 Your party wins a majority, and with that majority, your party can get things done.\u00a0 Taxing friends less and enemies more is what it’s all about.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Punish the Rich<\/h4>

Nobody deserves to have that much money.\u00a0 It’s as simple as that.\u00a0 The government should take earnings above a certain amount, be it $100,000 or a million dollars or some other amount.\u00a0 Congress needs the ability to set a ceiling on earnings.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Shield the Poor<\/h4>

High taxes on low earners irk you.\u00a0 Whatever tax code Americans choose for themselves must shield the poor.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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No Special Treatment<\/h4>

The way Congress can pick winners and losers with the tax code bothers you. Maybe you see the tax code as nothing more than a means to raise revenue, not a carrot or a stick.\u00a0 The tax code should be a fixed set of rules, without exceptions or subsidies or exemptions.<\/p>

Exemptions are often carrots in the tax code.\u00a0 Spend $40,000 to install solar panels on your house, get a $10,000 tax credit.\u00a0 Anybody qualifies for the tax credit, but few have forty grand to put up.\u00a0 You aren’t against solar panels.\u00a0 But is there another way to incentivize people to install solar panels without involving the tax code?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Skin in the Game<\/h4>

Maybe knowing some people have no skin in the (tax collection) game chaffs you.\u00a0 Even if it’s a token amount, you want to know everybody in the United States is paying something in taxes.\u00a0 You want a tax code that touches every person somehow.<\/p>

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Spending Money is Not a Tax Code Soul Mate Quality<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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We can agree on this.<\/p>