Stargoat's Journal: Idea for the tax system

For several years ago on the 1040EZ, there has been a field you could check and donate three dollars to the next Presidential election. Now, if you're like me, you don't care to donate any money to the Presidential election. Al Sharpton already has enough money to spend on hotels and steaks. But, there are government programs I would like to fund.

Put a field on tax forms, where a tax payer could put a code in this field, and thereby give an individually determined amount money to any governmental program he or she deems worthy. For example, a person could write in the field "A" and choose a ten dollar amount. This would donate ten dollars to NASA. Or a person could choose "B" and donate money to Social Security. Perhaps a person would choose C, and donate money to the school system.

Programs such as NASA would recieve extra funding. Who wouldn't want to give a couple of dollars out of their refund to the space agency? It would be simple to do, cost little money, and the amount of good it would do could be measured in the millions or billions.

I'll see that and raise you...

[peacefinder]

How about letting people choose the destination of up to 10% of their tax dollars? And after a couple years, make it 20%.

Many people would not bother to choose. But enough would that it'd have a serious impact on the financial prorities of the Federal Government.

Good Idea

[mercedo]

Good idea, we can reflect our wills to the reality of politics anyway.

But politicians would oppose to the idea, since they would lose how to spend the tax as they want, so all the more it's a good idea. Probably it's an idea that can be made it happen.

alternatively

[mandalayx]

you could just cut a check to your favorite school or NASA anyways. I'd actually prefer this because I trust my favorite school to make use of the money better than the federal Dept of Ed.