Optimized socioeconomic model: A single tax on every payment, in three brackets (10, 25 and 40%), shared out instantly across eight scales: from the person to the planet

Optimized socioeconomic model

A single tax on every payment, in three brackets (10, 25 and 40%), shared out instantly across eight scales: from the person to the planet

A socioeconomic model with a single tax on each transaction, with no other tax or levy, added to the price like VAT, in three bands: 10 % on basic necessities (water, energy, housing, mobility, food), 25 % on secondary needs and 40 % on leisure and luxury; on wages, 10 % if paid by a small company, 25 % by a medium one and 40 % by a large one. The payment system itself sets it aside instantly and splits it into eight equal parts among the scales we live in: the person, the neighbourhood community or the family, the municipality, the province, the region, the nation, the continent and the planet.

Each scale devotes one third to means of production, one to care and one to free use; help flows from larger scales to smaller ones through CPI-indexed loans and one-off donations, and only people with disabilities receive constant support, in kind. At each scale, a citizens' assembly chooses the priorities and a technical committee carries them out at the lowest cost, in the most effective and ecological way. The page compares it with the current Spanish tax system, with more than a hundred taxes and contributions and hundreds of fees, and includes an interactive matrix of responsibilities by scale and area, a diagram of the path the money takes and the calculation for a person from a village of 400 inhabitants in Madrid.

Diagram of the model: each payment contributes its band (10, 25 or 40 %) to the payment system, which passes it to an open common fund; the fund gives one eighth to each of the eight scales, which split it into thirds and return services to people, and people vote on the priorities of each scale.