P3ter_Griffin
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What?
Rand Paul tax plan calculator.
Why?
To highlight and bring attention to Rand Paul's tax plan, and how much it can save an individual. To motivate an individual to donate to Rand Paul. Possibly a source of ad revenue.
Who?
Collaborative grassroots project meant to reach any and all potential voters, focused towards individuals who think lower taxes are good.
When?
Now. The sooner the completion the better.
Where?
Everywhere. The ability to embed on websites, forums, and money bombs. The ability to interact with the calculator through social media sites like facebook and twitter.
Ownership:
Ronpaulforums.com / open source
Inputs:
Yearly salary or hourly wage and number of hours worked per week. Household size.
Outputs:
Tax savings under Rand's plan:
1. savings from elimination of payroll taxes
2. savings from reduced tax rate
3. total savings
4. savings per week
Blackbox:
1. calculate users (estimated?) payroll taxes ceteris paribus, display amount as payroll savings
2. calculate users (estimated?) tax rate ceteris paribus, calculate users (estimated?) tax rate under Rands plan. Subtract the latter from the former to display savings from reduced tax rate.
3. Add totals from numbers 1 and 2 together to display total savings.
4. Divide total from number 3 by 52 to provide savings per week.
Other possible solutions include figuring a percentage of total savings (6.75% has been offered as it amounts to payroll tax saving iirc) to prompt a user for a donation in that amount. Useful for money bombs and etc.
Data needed for black box functions:
Rand Paul's tax plan in mathematical formula. Current tax plan in mathematical formula, not including tax loopholes etc.
Hosting?:
Ronpaulforums.com? It does provide an opportunity for ad revenue so maybe some else would like to host it? I have not asked RPF admin if they would host it, this is an unknown.
Design
Embed Input:
Embed Output:
As mentioned above, we may want the ability to include more functions such as calculating a suggested donation amount, etc.
Twitter in and out:
Concept is that someone would tweet to RPF (or rand) with a hashtag to signify salary input and a hashtag to signify household size input, then a bot of some sort would send the request to the hosting website, and feed the output back to the user through twitter.
Facebook:
I have never used facebook and I don't know how we could best set up intractability with facebook (ie would embed work? something more similar to twitter?)
Thoughts?
Shout out to Revolution 3.0 for the idea.
Rand Paul tax plan calculator.
Why?
To highlight and bring attention to Rand Paul's tax plan, and how much it can save an individual. To motivate an individual to donate to Rand Paul. Possibly a source of ad revenue.
Who?
Collaborative grassroots project meant to reach any and all potential voters, focused towards individuals who think lower taxes are good.
When?
Now. The sooner the completion the better.
Where?
Everywhere. The ability to embed on websites, forums, and money bombs. The ability to interact with the calculator through social media sites like facebook and twitter.
Ownership:
Ronpaulforums.com / open source
Inputs:
Yearly salary or hourly wage and number of hours worked per week. Household size.
Outputs:
Tax savings under Rand's plan:
1. savings from elimination of payroll taxes
2. savings from reduced tax rate
3. total savings
4. savings per week
Blackbox:
1. calculate users (estimated?) payroll taxes ceteris paribus, display amount as payroll savings
2. calculate users (estimated?) tax rate ceteris paribus, calculate users (estimated?) tax rate under Rands plan. Subtract the latter from the former to display savings from reduced tax rate.
3. Add totals from numbers 1 and 2 together to display total savings.
4. Divide total from number 3 by 52 to provide savings per week.
Other possible solutions include figuring a percentage of total savings (6.75% has been offered as it amounts to payroll tax saving iirc) to prompt a user for a donation in that amount. Useful for money bombs and etc.
Data needed for black box functions:
Rand Paul's tax plan in mathematical formula. Current tax plan in mathematical formula, not including tax loopholes etc.
Hosting?:
Ronpaulforums.com? It does provide an opportunity for ad revenue so maybe some else would like to host it? I have not asked RPF admin if they would host it, this is an unknown.
Design
Embed Input:
Embed Output:
As mentioned above, we may want the ability to include more functions such as calculating a suggested donation amount, etc.
Twitter in and out:
Concept is that someone would tweet to RPF (or rand) with a hashtag to signify salary input and a hashtag to signify household size input, then a bot of some sort would send the request to the hosting website, and feed the output back to the user through twitter.
Facebook:
I have never used facebook and I don't know how we could best set up intractability with facebook (ie would embed work? something more similar to twitter?)
Thoughts?
Shout out to Revolution 3.0 for the idea.
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Any assistance from you and anyone else is much appreciated. I've done a few code academy programming projects, but I'd say I'm a far cry from even an amateur programmer.
I'm more than willing to read up on what you guys are talking about if help is needed, advice on good resources would be helpful if help is needed. Thank you!
