Implementation Roadmap
Nothing changes overnight. Both halves of the plan are built carefully around the old system over the same ten years — the money side and the health side, each in three clearly marked phases, with no sudden shocks to anyone’s paycheck, savings, business, or doctor.
How the tax & spending plan rolls out
The income tax isn’t switched off with a flip. The new funding system is stood up first, the sales tax phases in only as the income tax phases out dollar-for-dollar, and the whole thing ends with the old code retired and the debt finally falling.
The Foundation
Build the rails — your paycheck doesn't change yet
The Office of Trust Valuation (OTV) stands up
A lean market-monitor replaces the IRS audit machine. Instead of auditing your receipts, it values large companies by watching public markets — a fraction of the headcount and cost.
The Autopilot Thresholds are locked in
Trigger levels (≈ $29M personal, $50M business) are written into law and indexed to national medians, so they can never quietly drift down onto working families the way old brackets did.
Legacy Savings Credit registration opens
Americans register savings they've already paid tax on to lock in a 20% credit — a guarantee, before anything else changes, that old money is never taxed twice.
The growth share begins on the mega-caps
Only the very largest public companies start paying the 40% share of new growth in non-voting stock. No cash leaves any business, and income and payroll taxes are untouched.
The Crossover
The sales tax phases in as the income tax phases out — dollar for dollar
The Standard Sales Tax goes live, in steps
Built into sticker prices and introduced gradually, while income-tax withholding is cut by the same amount at each step. Paychecks stay net-neutral on the way in, then turn net-positive.
The Citizen's Rebate switches on
The monthly rebate on life's necessities begins the same day the sales tax does — so food, shelter, and energy are never taxed for anyone, from day one of the new tax.
The growth share expands to all large firms
Every company over the $50M threshold joins the model. Small businesses still owe nothing, and founders keep 100% of their voting control — payment is in stock, never cash.
States get the Piggyback offer
States that abolish their own income tax can ride a small surcharge on the federal sales tax — one collection system, one set of paperwork, lower combined rates for residents.
The Clean Slate
The income tax is gone for good — and the debt starts falling
The income tax and payroll tax are repealed
Federal income tax and FICA come off the books entirely. Paychecks are 100% take-home nationwide, and April 15th stops existing for working Americans.
The IRS audit apparatus is decommissioned
With nothing left to withhold or audit, the legacy collection machine is retired. The lightweight OTV becomes the nation's sole revenue authority.
The Debt-Brake engages
The year-end surplus is pointed straight at the national debt, and the variable estate tax glides toward 0% as the debt is paid down — the first sustained paydown in a generation.
The system runs on autopilot
Thresholds self-index to national prosperity. No politician can raise your taxes without first making the whole country wealthier — the tax shelter is everyone else's success.
How the health care plan rolls out
The infrastructure and price transparency come first, a public option proves the model on a limited group, and only then does the full system come online — with the legacy claims machinery shut down last, never first.
The Soft Launch
Infrastructure construction & beta testing
AHT Oracle goes live (read-only)
The pricing API launches in read-only mode; providers earn tax credits for uploading all-in pricing data.
Post-Quantum mandate
NIST FIPS 203/204 standards (CRYSTALS-Kyber key encapsulation, Dilithium signatures) become mandatory for all Health Record systems — EHR vendors get 36 months or lose federal certification.
Smart Card hardware rollout
AHT Smart Cards distribute to federal employees and Medicare recipients to beta-test chip reliability and Assisted Mode terminals.
The Tax Shift begins
The Health Asset Tax funds future Tier 1, offset by simultaneous payroll tax reductions — net-neutral for the average worker.
The Bridge
Proving the model via targeted public option
Targeted Tier 1 opening
Free Primary Care launches for minors (0–18) and pre-retirees (55–65), relieving families and older workers immediately.
Premiums drop 40%
Private Tier 2 specialty plans hit the national exchange without primary-care coverage — premiums fall by approximately 40%.
The Tipping Point
Healthy populations migrate to cheaper AHT plans; a one-time Solvency Backstop prevents chaotic legacy-insurer bankruptcies.
The Sunset
Full migration & legacy decommissioning
Universal Tier 1
Primary care expands to ages 19–54 — the entire population is on the AHT standard.
Employer-insurance deduction repealed
The corporate tax deduction for legacy employer-based insurance ends, closing out the old model.
$50B Administrative Dampening Fund
Redundant insurance administrators are bought out and retrained as Patient Advocates or Trust Auditors.
Final decommission
The Legacy Claims Clearinghouse shuts down; the Smart Card and Oracle API become the sole legal settlement standards.
The timeline only moves if we push it together.
Phase 1 begins with legislation. Legislation begins with neighbors who ask for it.
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