Taxes

I still have to finish my tax return. Ugh. Sometimes I wish we could vote with our taxes. For example, i wish there were a list of federal government departments on our tax forms, and we could say what percent of the taxes we paid could go to this or that government department. You could decide to give an even percentage to each department, or maybe more to some you think need more funding, and less to others.

There was a saying some decades ago that went something like, "wouldn't it be great if the Pentagon had to put on a bake sale to fund a war, instead of schools?" Used to be, you kinda sorta did. WWII was funded by people buying War Bonds, and people literally did have bake sales to buy War Bonds to fund the war. The rate of return wasn't great, but people all over felt it was their patriotic duty to support the war.

Anyway, it seems to me that if we could choose what percentage of our taxes went to certain areas of government, we'd probably see some massive cutbacks.

Or, we could go to a flat tax. That would save a lot of money, but it'd probably mean the IRS would suddenly be a much smaller department...which kind of is the point.