http://www.taxgirl.com/a-different-kind-of-tax-form/ Paying taxes is painful... but reading about them shouldn't be. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:55:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.taxgirl.com/a-different-kind-of-tax-form/comment-page-1/#comment-10142 TaxRascal Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:45:17 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/?p=3177#comment-10142 So we vote for people who vote for tax laws to fund the projects they vote for so we'll vote for them -- and one more layer of voting will help? A system like this would just lead to giant abuses, since getting a pet project (like clean energy or bailouts) onto the list would be worth billions of dollars to the beneficiaries. Instead of spending amounts in the low billions on electing officials, we'd just see people spend many billions more on convincing people to vote for new policies. So we vote for people who vote for tax laws to fund the projects they vote for so we’ll vote for them — and one more layer of voting will help? A system like this would just lead to giant abuses, since getting a pet project (like clean energy or bailouts) onto the list would be worth billions of dollars to the beneficiaries. Instead of spending amounts in the low billions on electing officials, we’d just see people spend many billions more on convincing people to vote for new policies.

]]> http://www.taxgirl.com/a-different-kind-of-tax-form/comment-page-1/#comment-10124 EllAnn Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:01:18 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/?p=3177#comment-10124 So they will just take more of someone else's tax $$ to fund the projects I object to. This isn't going to lessen the amount of money that goes to those areas. So they will just take more of someone else’s tax $$ to fund the projects I object to. This isn’t going to lessen the amount of money that goes to those areas.

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