UnburdenAmerica
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UNBURDEN
AMERICA
let's Tax the System - not the people
End the Debt | Lift up Ordinary Citizens | Supercharge the Economy
We pay 1.4 Trillion interest on the debt every year and rising.
That's more than we spend on the military!
“That’s about $116,000 per American”
If America produces more wealth than any society in history … why do we have so much crushing debt?
The Real problem is bigger than debt & Taxes
America is stuck and divided
The national debt keeps rising.
Working Businesses and real people carry the burden and the worry.
And Washington keeps circling the same tired arguments.
That is not a serious long-term strategy. It is political gridlock wrapped around an outdated revenue system.
The problem is not only that the debt is unsustainable. The problem is that America is still trapped in a narrow debate about how money works, where revenue can come from, and what options are actually possible.
A structural solution may be hiding in plain sight, but if the public does not understand it, and leaders do not talk about it, the country stays stuck. Unburden America exists to bring that overlooked solution into the national conversation.
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Working people and productive businesses carry too much of the load.
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The financial system processes vast flows at extraordinary scale.
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A modern economy needs a modern revenue base.
maybe We're not asking the right questions
For generations, Americans have been taught to ask the same question whenever real change is proposed:
Can we afford it?
Where will we get the money?
Is there enough?
That question is the starting point of #IsThereEnough #Money — a broader conversation about scarcity, public priorities, and whether we are looking for money in the right places.
Unburden America is a step beyond that conversation. It is one practical solution.
It begins with a simple observation:
America still taxes work, wages, and productive activity more heavily than the massive financial flows moving through the Monetary Economy.
If the tax base no longer reflects how the economy actually works, then the growing burden on workers, businesses, and future generations is not inevitable.
It is structural.
So the deeper question remains:
Is there enough money… ?
or are we simply looking in the wrong place?
Are There Now Two economies ?
The one we live in
THE REAL ECONOMY
Products. Services. Jobs. Wages. Main Street. This is the economy that creates everyday life and supports household stability.
$30 Trillion
Taxed
The one we don't see
MONETARY ECONOMY
Stocks. Bonds. Funds. Derivatives. Institutional money movement. This is the system that channels, prices, and trades financial value at scale.
Over $4,500 Trillion
Not Taxed
The Monetary Economy exists to support the Real Economy, not the other way around. When work and production are taxed more than money moving through the system, something is backwards.
The solution: shift the burden
A MICRO tax on large-scale monetary flow would reduce taxes on work and innovation and strengthen the country’s finances.
Unburden America supports a simple idea: place a micro tax on large monetary transactions moving through the financial system where automation, scale, and speed dominate. The goal is to update the tax base so that public revenue is not drawn so heavily from paychecks, labor, and productive activity. This will not harm finance because of its miniscule size and minimal impact but it will unleash enormous increases in standards of living at all levels of society for one simple reason, because there is enough wealth.
The 21st century way
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Tax less of what builds the country.
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Tax more of what the system can bear.
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Use modern infrastructure to collect revenue automatically
Why this idea reaches everyone
People on the left and the right disagree about almost everything but they can definitely agree on "found money". It allows us to shift our conversations from what we can and cannot afford to "what we really want to do".
It's all about the timing
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ordinary Americans are financially squeezed
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the tax code feels outdated and unfair
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and the frightening national debt looks unsustainable
Unburden America argues that these financial sufferings are not separate problems. They may all point back to the same structural issue: we are trying to fund a modern nation with a tax base built for a different time.
It's a time for change
what this unlocks
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lower tax pressure on working households
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greater fiscal stability
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debt reduction
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the capacity to invest in priorities like housing, healthcare, education, and childcare
Show me the POLICY AND THE PROOFS
Big claims require real evidence. So we are building this movement around transparent assumptions, public-facing explanations, and serious debate.