Election Economics

Kishida is talking about tweaking the economy — but saying the specifics will not come until after the election (meaning he wants you to sign the blank check before he fills in the amount) — so I have a few suggestions for tweaking taxation.

1. Rather than just changing the taxation of capital gains, put all income together and tax it on a progressive schedule. It really doesn’t matter if you are farming, building houses, filing lawsuits, collecting rent/dividends, or what. Sure, different activities have different costs that can be expensed, but what you are left with is the same: money. Total it all up and tax it.

2. Get rid of the consumption/sales tax in all of its regressive glory and reinstitute excise taxes (more properly named excess taxes?) on things people don’t really need — things like pearl necklaces — with the same tax on the same product regardless of where it originated. (Speaking of which, alcohol should be taxed the same by volume regardless of whether the alcohol is in beer, whiskey, sake, wine, or whatever.)

3. Get rid of the furusato nozei system that encourages people to send their tax money to buy things on the cheap while impoverishing the communities where they live and where they benefit from government spending that they avoid financing.

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4. Treat all political organizations like family business companies. They have income. Account for all of it. They have expenses. Document them all. And if they show a profit at the end of the year, tax it. If someone who owns shares (e.g., the politician) retires or dies and those shares pass to someone else, tax the transfer as a gift or inheritance. Not only would this perhaps make political financing more transparent, it might even lessen the inherited-seat advantage.

5. Get serious about property tax collection. If a land/home owner dies, someone inherits the property. Send the bill. If it is not paid, follow up. There is no reason there should be vast numbers of “we don’t know who owns it” properties.

Other people here will have other ideas, and some of these idea may well involve explaining why my ideas are wrong-headed. Great. Feel free to add/subtract as you wish.

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