Not With My Tax Dollars You Don't!

My Dad made a comment about this some twenty-five years ago.  I just blew him off at the time.  Interesting to think about this, especially now.

His comment was regarding tax code reform.  The talk of the day then was a flat tax.  Yep, that was a successful idea.  The interesting part was when Pops said, "The tax forms should list what you're willing to have your tax dollars pay for."

No, it wouldn't actually work, oh, for about 13,283 reasons, but the exercise is worth it, nonetheless.

Here's some ideas:

I want my tax dollars to pay for...

1. The war in (insert location here).                                    _____%

2. Nationalized Health Care                                               _____%

3.  Primary Education                                                        _____%

4. Secondary Education                                                     _____%

5. Post Secondary Education                                             _____%

6. Republican Senator's Mistresses                                    _____%

7. Subsidizing Tobacco                                                      _____%

8. Subsidizing Non-producing farms                                   _____%

9. Building a fence on the south side or Aridzona                _____%

10.  Shoring up Social Security                                          _____%

11.  Stem Cell Research                                                    _____%

12.  Junkets                                                                      _____%

13.  Studies on how much cows fart                                  _____%

14. Infrastructure for green transportation                          _____%

15.  Job development                                                       _____%

16.  Bailing out Wall Street                                               _____%

17.  Rebuild regulatory structure of financial markets         _____%

18.  Buying out mortgages from predatory lenders             _____%

19.  Paying for spay/neuters of domestic pets                    _____%

20.  Paying for RWNJ lobotomies                                    _____%

21.  Subsidize mega churches for political lobbying efforts _____%

Sorry, I should have stopped sooner, but, well, it was just kinda flowing. Stupid and otherwise. 

The point it, consider the way you would fill this out.  Ask others. 

Where do you think the chips would fall?