Welcome to Tax Policy @ OptimalPortfolio.net. Our goals include:
1) Stimulating discussion about replacing wealth taxes (capital, income, and inheritance) with a flat consumption tax on new goods and services.
2) Motivating people to lobby their legislators to eliminate wealth/income taxes and other policies that inhibit the individual’s ability to make capital allocation decisions.
3) Building/coordinating a team to develop socioeconomic behavioral models and a distributed computing approach to agent-based simulation. We will calibrate models using historical tax policies and macroeconomic conditions after which we’ll experiment with various tax policies, observing the resulting productivity, savings rates, quality of life (measured how?), changes in distribution of wealth, etc.