What If Taxpayers Could Decide How Their Money Is Spent?
The technology exists to allow individual Americans to decide how their money is spent, so why not let them?
Americans don't really know where the taxes they pay actually go. Sure there are programs they hear about, but how is it actually divided up? Think tank Third Way suggests providing taxpayers a (.pdf) showing how their money is spent. It would look something like the example they created you can see to the right. My colleague Megan McArdle on Friday. She agrees that more information is better, even though she isn't sure it would have the effect that Third Way hopes.
