Ha! I posted this to my Facebook mere minutes after you...or hours...or whatever.
I'll state what I stated on FB: the only objection I can think of to this idea is that an individual receipt doesn't give a complete accounting of taxation/spending -- for example, all the plebes would howl about the cost of Social Security (it would be the top ticket for many low income taxpayers)...even though Social Security would vanish for high earners, since it's paid for regressively.
To further the example, we spend about as much as a country on the military as we do on Social Security -- but even with this system, over two-thirds of the country might not know it.
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Date: 2010-10-01 06:31 pm (UTC)I'll state what I stated on FB: the only objection I can think of to this idea is that an individual receipt doesn't give a complete accounting of taxation/spending -- for example, all the plebes would howl about the cost of Social Security (it would be the top ticket for many low income taxpayers)...even though Social Security would vanish for high earners, since it's paid for regressively.
To further the example, we spend about as much as a country on the military as we do on Social Security -- but even with this system, over two-thirds of the country might not know it.