If I Were USA's Tax Queen

If I were queen tax commissioner of the country I would add an extra form onto your taxes in which you could designate where you wanted your taxes to go. Want a huge military budget because your family has been career army all their lives? - give 100% to that area. Interested in improving education, give 80% to it and the other 20% to libraries. Feel strongly that abortion is murder - give 100% to welfare to support these children (as rich and middle class can go elsewhere to get their abortions even if it is declared unlawful). Law and order type - designate it all to the police and prisons block; think they have too much power already, assign your tax dollars to legal aid. Think the environment would benefit from mass transit systems or alternate energy sources, give the money to that. Now in some ways, this plan favors the middle class and gives them a great deal of power. More power than the rich or the poor who pay very little in taxes (what with trust funds, offshore accounts, clever accountants who study loopholes and the politicians who create them for the rich and of course the very poor who pay nothing). With computers, this method of democracy is feasible and the politicians might just see where our priorities lie. This is the fantasy of an old woman with too many pets. Taxes wouldn't hurt so much if we got to say where the money goes.