One Solution: Killing, incarceration or other violence shall not result in financial gain. It shall result only in the restoration of victims of violence. All lawful enterprise that uses killing, violence, coercion or force shall be nonprofit. All revenue derived in part or whole from it shall amount to restitution. It shall be submitted to uncompensated victims of violence.
ELEMENTS OF THE LEGISLATION
WHAT:
Local and municipal codes: Violence products shall be taxed at a rate of 100%. Many movies, games and videos are rated for violence content. All of these ticket sales and product sales/rentals are subject to this tax (the Tax). Violence providers may still generate income. They may apply for grants, awards and other funding. Thus, they give the funding agent plenty of time to consider alternatives.
State law, statute: Every violence product for sale to a consumer shall be subject to the Tax. The Tax collected each year must cover violence victim losses. The Tax may be increased to cover violence victim losses. The Tax does not include the usual sales tax.
Federal law, code: The violence user must continue to pay FICA, disability and other taxes.
Funding organizations may no longer use coercion to channel funds into the violence-unemployment cycle. Itemized deductions made to violence providers do not apply to reduce taxation. So, one cannot justify producing violence by controlling the purse that doles out charity.
WHEN: Local and municipal codes: Many movies, games and videos are rated for violence content. That rating requires the box office or store clerk to handle that violence product with care. During such a process, the number of violence rated items consumed is inventoried. The box office or store is subject to inspection or audit. At such times, the inspector calculates the amount of Tax expected.
State law, code or statute: (demand side economics; handled by the local revenue office or the SFTB). Upon sale of each violence product, the consumer (or representative) shall pay the Tax. The Tax shall be collected by the box-office, sales representative, credit card agency or store clerk at the point of sale. The collector shall hold and transfer the Tax as a separate line item to the State Franchise Tax Board (SFTB) along with the sales tax.
Federal law, code: (supply side economics; handled by the IRS) Upon reporting income to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The interpersonal violence user shall pay 100% of revenue when income tax is due.
WHERE: Immediately upon receipt, the local revenue office, SFTB or IRS shall transfer the Tax directly to the
Veterans Administration
Social Security Administration
Department of Justice
(the Administration) according to the Restorative Justice legislation. There, the Tax shall be placed immediately into the Restitution Fund (the Fund).
HOW: The Administration shall administer the Fund in the same manner as disability benefits. All of the Fund shall immediately go directly to the victims of violent crimes. The Administration shall deliver these restitution checks as it does disability checks.
Administrative salaries cover the administration of disability benefits to civilians and veterans of foreign wars. So, the social workers shall continue to be paid through these Administration funds.
Each victim shall receive the amount prescribed by the Department of Justice. The losses restituted by the Fund shall equal the averages published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics for pertinent categories of violence.
The Fund shall be disbursed on a first come, first served basis. Disability recipients who are eligible for the Fund shall be automatically restituted through the Fund. They shall be asked for any supplementary information needed to ascertain the amount of restitution. The victim may claim only the personal losses accrued over the present lifetime.
WHO: Local, municipal and state law, code or statute: (handled by the local revenue office or the SFTB). The payers shall be the violence users. They include all entities that use violence products.
Federal law, code: (handled by the IRS) The payers shall be all entities that produce violence. They include all violence producers, providers and pushers.
The restitution recipients shall be the US citizens victimized and disenfranchised by violent crime in the USA. *
SAVINGS FOR THE TAXPAYER: The Fund will replace disability benefits for eligible restitution recipients. That restores Social Security disability and retirement funds. There were 5,744,000 victims of violent crimes per year in the USA in 2001.* Many victims of violent crime need the Fund to overcome disability. If they are eligible for the Fund, they will stop receiving disability benefits. So, taxpayers may save billions of dollars for Social Security benefits.
Suppose all U.S. rape victims are challenged by authority figure violence. Then, each is eligible for about $8,000 per year from the SSA, or about $24,000 from the VA. Suppose none could get a court to prosecute. So, they will automatically be eligible for restitution through the Fund. Suppose the half-million yearly rape victims receive funds only from the SSA. Then, taxpayers would save this $4 billion per year for Social Security.
Also, the taxpayer saves the interest on the $400 billion public loan, as described next.
RESTORATION OF THE ECONOMY: The federal deficit is about $400 billion. Actually, about $397 billion per year* is missing from the Gross National Product. According to the Department of Justice, violent criminals stole it. The Tax will collect these stolen funds directly from violent criminals and other violence supporters.
This $400 billion per year will be returned to the Gross National Product. It will be restored through spending by Fund recipients. Thus, it will be spent on health care, families, homes, careers and related items. It will help recover these items which were lost due to the violence. Thus, there will be an increase in job opportunities in most peaceful sectors of the economy.
About 10% of the Fund will become sales tax during this spending. This is a $40 billion per year increase in local and state government revenue.
There will be a large increase in job opportunities for caregivers for the challenged. The number of challenged Americans will decrease as victims regain stolen aspects of life. Violent crime will decrease as targets of violence find safe homes affordable. Faith in the justice system will be restored as this means of social justice is implemented. The restoration will save banks from the burden of America's fiscal irresponsibility.
COSTS TO THE TAXPAYER: There is no net cost to the taxpayer in the peace economy. The Tax shall be collected directly from violent criminals and other violence supporters.
The administration of the Tax shall use existing funds allocated from income tax revenue. Currently, $62 billion of income tax revenue is spent on the Veterans Administration (VA), according to the New York Times, Feb 4, 2003, p25. The Social Security Administration (SSA) also operates on income tax revenue.
Some SSA and VA beneficiaries will be eligible for the Fund. These will continue using these Administrations. The amount on their checks will change. It changes every few years, anyway. The checks shall say, "for restitution" in place of "for disability."
A level of earned income will still restrict eligibility. It will change. It changes every few years, anyway. It will be equivalent to the average loss estimated for pertinent categories of violence. The Department of Justice publishes this dollar amount through the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The same administrators will conduct the same application procedure. The number and general content of questions asked will remain the same.
The IRS might take in larger amounts from the same sales personnel. It might disburse larger amounts to the same Administrations.
The GAO shall conduct regular reviews and audits to ascertain enforcement. These shall include inspection of government and corporate invoice and procurement documents. The GAO shall assign the task of enforcement to existing employees as needed. The compliance requirements shall be added to the pertinent existing specifications as line items. The final report detailing quantitative analysis of compliance data shall be open to public inspection. The work hours shall be charged to existing procurement, taxation and administration investigations.
This legislation fits into the routines of the Administration, the Department of Justice, the IRS and the GAO. So, this legislation incurs no cost to the peace economy taxpayer.
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