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From: warren@ihnss.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.taxes
Subject: Re: earmarking tax money
Message-ID: <1776@ihnss.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 15:19:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 15:19:10 1983
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I have thought before that something like this would be an
interesting concept.  You will never get the politicians to give up
the power to spend money the way they want, however you just might
get them to let you fill in the information on your tax form and
collect it.  This would be an objective scorecard against which one
could measure the performance of legislators in forming a budget
consistent with the desires of the public.

If someone is really interested in this, I suggest that they contact
the consumer's and/or taxpayers advocacy groups, which probably have
considerably more influence in Washington than usenet (I don't even
know if there is a site in the city), and ought to be interested in
something like this.

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	Warren Montgomery
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	IH x2494