The Autopilot Thresholds
Constitutional Indexing — tax triggers no politician can weaponize.
These rules only kick in above $29 million — and they can never creep down to you.
Every trigger in the plan is tied to how well average Americans are doing, not a number politicians picked in a back room. If you have less than about $29 million, or your business makes under $50 million a year, none of this touches you. And here's the twist: the only way the very wealthy can raise their own tax-free ceiling is to help make everyone else wealthier too.
Static brackets rot — and get weaponized
Legacy tax brackets are set by political horse-trading and silently eroded by inflation. The Alternative Minimum Tax, designed for 155 millionaires in 1969, eventually hit millions of middle-class families. Fixed dollar thresholds always drift downward onto the people they were never meant to touch.
Index every trigger to the nation's own prosperity
The AST hard-codes every threshold to live national metrics via a Constitutional Indexing protocol. No annual votes, no lobbying windows, no drift. The only way for the wealthy to raise their tax-free ceiling is to raise the median wealth of the average citizen.
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The key numbers, at a glance
All tax triggers are indexed to national economic metrics. The Personal Wealth Trigger sits at 150x National Median Wealth (≈ $29M); the Business Scale Dual-Trigger fires at Gross Revenue > $50M OR Operating Expenses > $40M.
Personal Wealth Trigger
150x Median
≈ $29,000,000 — indexed, not fixed
Business Trigger A
> $50M
Gross Revenue (25x national mean)
Business Trigger B
> $40M
Operating Expenses (20x national mean)
Trigger Logic
EITHER / OR
The Expense Backstop closes the Net Revenue loophole
What exactly is broken today?
- Bracket creep quietly raises taxes without a single vote being cast.
- Thresholds become bargaining chips, re-traded every election cycle.
- Companies game 'Net Revenue' definitions to hide their true scale.
How the fix works, point by point
- Personal Wealth Trigger: 150x National Median Household Wealth (≈ $29 Million).
- Business Trigger A (Revenue): 25x National Mean Business Revenue (≈ $50 Million gross).
- Business Trigger B (Expense Backstop): 20x National Mean Business Expenses (≈ $40 Million). Meeting EITHER criterion triggers the mandate.
Why the Expense Backstop exists
During red-team stress testing, analysts identified a 'Revenue Arbitrage' risk: companies like ad agencies could restructure contracts to report 'Net Revenue' below the $50M threshold while operating at massive scale. The patch is a dual trigger. While revenue definitions can be manipulated, Operating Expenses — payroll, rent, server costs — are hard cash realities. If a company spends $40M a year to operate, it is by definition a large entity.
The alignment mechanism
Because the Personal Wealth Trigger is a multiple of median household wealth, the incentives of the ultra-wealthy invert: lifting the bottom half of the country is the only legal way to lift their own exemption ceiling. Prosperity becomes the tax shelter.
The Golden Runway
Below the thresholds, founders pay 0% corporate tax, 0% capital gains, and suffer 0% equity dilution. A founder can grow from $0 to $49 Million in revenue paying zero taxes of any kind — making the US the most attractive jurisdiction on earth for new company formation.
What Would Your Raise Be?
See the Compensation Preservation Protocol (CPP) work for your own paycheck
The US average employer contribution is ≈ $15,000/year for family coverage — money you earn but never see in your paycheck.
Today
$50,000
+ $15,000 hidden premium
Your New Cash Wage
$65,000
an immediate $15,000 raise
Year 0 — Total Comp Freeze: the OTV certifies your Total Compensation Load at $65,000.
Year 1 — Mandatory Conversion: private premiums are abolished; the Fair Labor Standards Act makes the certified baseline your new minimum cash salary. Your employer’s costs don’t change a penny: $0 net.
The Wage Clawback Clause: an employer who pockets your $15,000 instead faces the Unjust Enrichment Tax — 100% of retained savings plus a 20% punitive surcharge, a $33,000 penalty. It is mathematically more expensive to steal the savings than to pay you.
More from the Shareholder Trust
- The International Access Model
Foreign mega-companies pay for access to American customers — no more hiding in tax havens.
- The Legacy Savings Credit
Money you already paid taxes on will never be taxed again. Period.
- Engine A: The Sovereign Equity Fund
When big companies grow, the country gets a share of the new growth — paid in stock, never cash.