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• Walter A Nodelman 2 years ago

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  Solution to our Economic Disaster
  There is an easy answer which would solve the problem in 3 months, and with no downside risk.
  No hits to the unemployed American taxpayers.
  No stock market crashes.
  No foreign diplomatic issues.
  No bailouts from the federal government vaults.
  No bank runs.
  No riots.
  No bureaucracies.

  Simple prosperity, - from working Americans spending their paychecks in the United States of America.

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  A proposed anti-OFFSHORING "PER BYTE TAX"

  This is a PROPOSAL on how to quickly solve the crime of OFFSHORING.
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  First, with a 3 day maximum for debate in each house of the Congress, Americans raise a ruckus and get our elected representatives to pass a law which our President signs, or his veto is quickly overridden. That new law says we abhor and we will no longer follow the WTO treaty, NAFTA treaty, GATT treaty, CAFTA treaty, etc. It says we abrogate all of those named sovereignty stealing treaties. We do it, exactly as fast as we abrogated the Missile Test Ban Treaty.

  Secondly, On the Capitol Building veranda in Washington DC, our elected representatives lug out a SHREDDER. Invite the Media and the Press. With a band drum-roll, they SHRED every page of our signed WTO Treaty, NAFTA Treaty, etc.

  Thirdly, we send telegrams to all the signatories of those treaties and tell them that we will no longer be a party to them. Our change is effective with the arrival of this telegram. And from each signatory country, the USA is immediately recalling our ambassador for two months of consultations in Washington DC. (Let them riot in front of empty embassies).

  Fourthly, with a 3 day maximum debate in each house of the Congress, our elected officers pass a NEW TAX. The "American Jobs Recovery and PROTECTIONISM Act". Also, referred to as the "Digital Per Byte TAX for the American Border".

  Every BYTE of data is charged a payment of TAX to the United States Federal Treasury of ONE PENNY. A super simple calculation. No complexity of a tax code. The TAX is owed at the instant that the zeroes and ones of a BYTE crosses ANY United States Geographic Border. The TAX is collected from the United States 50 states participant to that communication, whether the byte of data is outbound or inbound. Meaning of the byte is irrelevant. Physical position of the byte is irrelevant (first, last, etc). Every byte is counted. (A byte is 8 positions called bits, and each position contains either a zero or a one).

  The digital byte is taxed regardless of whether it represents part of a sound or voice, as in Digital Compression of voices in a Callcenter. The tax is collected from the telephone company for a simple telephone call from one residence to an overseas location. ASCI, EBCDIC, whatever -- it all involves bytes, crossing national borders, and it all gets counted.

  If it is in Digital Format, and if it crosses our border, it creates a tax liability which must be paid. The collection of the tax is accomplished in quarter year installments. January February March is paid to our government by the end of April.

  The counter and the audit is associated with every Satellite Dish in the USA, every Glass Fiber Cable which goes to a network that enters an ocean, every Microwave antennae, every Analog antennae, and every Copper Cable which crosses the geographic border of this country. Place a floppy disk, or a Flash Memory into an envelope and try to mail it to India and the U S Customs Service will want to know the Byte Count on that physical device, because it is Digital and it is crossing our Federal Border. Default tax for violators is the maximum physical byte count possible on the particular device (floppy disk, tape, flash memory in a Nikon, whatever).

  If Microsoft wants to write "Longhorn" in Bangalore... Great. Let them do it. Big labor cost savings. But every COPY of Longhorn which is going to come into the United States to a customer is going to be subject to our BYTE COUNTER, because it is Digital characters and it is crossing our border. If Longhorn is installed into a new Dell computer in Communist China, and then that new computer is going to get sold in an Office Max or a Staples in the USA, then that is also DIGITAL and crossing our border, and countable by us. Dell has to declare how many Digital characters are involved, and Dell has to pay the Customs Service. On the other hand, write Longhorn in Washington State, and build the Dell Computer in Georgia, and there is no digital tax anywhere involved.

  Be located in Hyderabad and try to read Monster dot com jobs list, and Monster Corporation gets taxed when Monster sends that Jobs List in Digital Format across the California beach.

  Hide from the U S Customs Service and face the punishment normally meted out to companies which do that.

  There would be appropriate exceptions which are not taxed. Military communications. Internet to private users. (Still taxed would be INTEL USA talking to INTEL Bangalore via the Internet). Weather satellites would be exempt. International Space Station would be exempt. There are others ...

  The wealth generated by the Byte Tax is collected quarterly and goes to reduce the Federal DEBT. It goes toward the Social Security Fund and Medicare as offsets. It goes to increase the Budget of the Veteran's Hospitals. It goes to FEMA for disaster relief. It goes to Homeland Security to pay for equipment. Work out the percentages of shares in the Congress.

  The tax is on the compressed and encrypted data at the level of a single byte crossing the national border. If it is digital and it is composed of 8 "zero or one" bits - it gets counted as a BYTE. Therefor everything is easily measurable and countable. No huge bureaucracy needed to count Bytes.

  No attempt is made to PREVENT the transmission of that byte in either direction. But, crossing an American border does have a cost, and that cost must be paid to the U S Federal Government Customs Service.

  If we started on this effort now, we can have it in place, generating revenue, and inducing the quick return of America's jobs to America's workers inside the United States of America.

  For our government to outlaw overtime pay, it took no time at all to accomplish. Merely a signature and some publicity. The Byte Tax can happen almost as fast.

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