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Chapters
ROOPA Summary
Social Cost: The Magic Bullet of Social Policy & Tax Reform
The Savings, Efficiencies & Fairness of a Social Cost Based Tax System Called
ROOPA: Responsibility for One’s Own Products & Actions
ROOPA is the tax program you’ve been waiting for. ROOPA can cut taxes by as much as half while still doubling social programs and benefits.
ROOPA’s secret is simple. ROOPA works from a social cost based approach to develop new found economic policy platforms. ...
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Sect. I Ch. 1 The ROOPA Journey:
The Abyss of Political Activism & the Reforms Discovered
ROOPA’s journey may be more a story of why you should avoid today’s media rather than about some specific proposal. Spend too much time watching the news or reading the paper, and you are likely to find your self called to justice or filled with all sorts of heady ideas. Justice or big ideas, either way, you are going to turn an otherwise happy, normal life into one filled with self imposed troubles. ...
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Sect. II: Ch. 1
ROOPA: The Formula
It took writing out this entire book before all of the pieces came together, allowing me to discover the actual formula of how and why ROOPA (Responsibility for One’s Own Products and Actions) works as a tax reform. In looking over the different aspects of the discussion, I found 3 components coming to surface. While these 3 issues are already known they have not been explored far enough to find ...
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Sect. II Ch. 2
How Barata & DOTS Work with a DUI
The Base Rate Tax (Barata) used in this demonstration is 15 percent; however, it would be between 15 and 20 percent depending on income level and state budgetary needs. Lifestyle costs would be covered by DOTS (Defined Optional Tax Spending) that can run another 10 to 30 percent depending upon income. In this example, the DOTS fee goes to cover a DUI at a cost of $30,000. It would take 3 years and ...
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Sect. II Ch. 3
Comparative Taxes & Insurance: ROOPA vs. Today
In today’s system, we pay about 15 percent in federal income tax on a median household income of $65,000; however, on average the total federal and state tax burden is 31.6 percent of income. Included in this bill are 4.3 percent of income in consumption taxes such as sales and gas taxes, 3 percent of income in property taxes, 8.5 percent of income in social insurance taxes, and 1 percent of income ...
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Section III: Sample Demo
ROOPA Policy Demonstration: Tobacco
Tobacco offers an opportunity to demonstrate how ROOPA would play out as a system of public policy. Using numbers from tobacco gives us an idea how the data provided in the coming chapters figure into a final proposal. ROOPA would normally work off of an industry’s average social cost; however, smokers already pay so much in taxes and insurance premiums that even when we use the explosive claims of ...
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Calendar
ROOPA Book Release June 11, 07
Official Release Date
The official release date for the ROOPA Book is going to be June 11th, 07. What that entails is unclear to me so far, but it should mean something more exciting then telling friends over the net. We will see what we can arrenge by then. ...
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De-LETO
Subprime’s Magic Bullet: The Auto Lease To Own Mortgage
Auto Lease Writes Down Depreciating Asset While Maintaining Loans Original Value
De-LETO: Depreciating Lease To Own Mortgage
We simply take the auto-lease-to-own system and apply it to housing.
The auto lease system allows us to write down a depreciating asset over a half decade while still maintaining the full value of the ...
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De-LETO Mortgage: The Numbers
Numbers by Guerrilla Economics
Monthly Payments Reduced by 30% to 45%
A $1,350 monthly (@ 6.8% interest) on a $200,000 mortgage falls to just $970 or even $740 a month.
A (fed or bank) contribution of $10,000 (or 5% of the loan amount) brings the monthly payment to $970 or ...
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News
ROOPA BOOK Available on-line
Lulu.com carries ROOPA
ROOPA is now available for distribution at Lulu.com. Just search under roopa or raghu or tax reform at the lulu site. ROOPA: Responsibility for One\'s Own Product\'s & Actions will come up and sells for about $9 not including shipping. We will also ...
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Rating Net Response Time from Presidential Candidates:
Bill Richardson Most Responsive to Internet Communication, Joe Bidden, least responsive.
The internet played a large role in the last presidential race of ’04 and so is again being employed in this race as well. However, the internet is still treated like the old media as a one way speaker to blare your message to the public. Its role is ...
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Press Release: Compound Mortgage:
Subprime Mortgage Crisis Made Quantifiable, Containable & Affordable
A new lease-to-own real-estate mortgage system developed by John Giuffre (aka Raghu), provides a solution to the U.S. subprime real estate mortgage crisis by introducing three essential components missing from today’s responses; Raghu introduces the ...
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