Rikurzhen
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- Jul 24, 2014
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I've long toyed with this idea but I'm curious how others feel about it. When it comes time to do your taxes you can fill out a short form, or traditional form, like we do today, or you can fill out the long form and take 50% of your taxes and allocate as you please to the programs that you favor. There would be a long list of every single federal department and you put a dollar figure by each program you choose to support.
The ratio you put down is how your spending is allocated for the next 2 years. Even number SS taxpayers elect on even years and odd SS taxpayers elect on odd years. This allows a bit of smoothing out, to address the fluctuations which will arise as programs become popular or unpopular or to counteract trends where too many choose not to fund in one year so next year others step up and correct.
One aspect that I like is that it removes a lot of power from Congressman and their bad earmarking and pork spending habits. Now they only get 50% of the tax revenue to spend and a good portion of that will be to smooth over the disparities which arise from citizen choice on funding.
So, any thoughts?
The ratio you put down is how your spending is allocated for the next 2 years. Even number SS taxpayers elect on even years and odd SS taxpayers elect on odd years. This allows a bit of smoothing out, to address the fluctuations which will arise as programs become popular or unpopular or to counteract trends where too many choose not to fund in one year so next year others step up and correct.
One aspect that I like is that it removes a lot of power from Congressman and their bad earmarking and pork spending habits. Now they only get 50% of the tax revenue to spend and a good portion of that will be to smooth over the disparities which arise from citizen choice on funding.
So, any thoughts?