I've always thought it would be a great idea to send each taxpayer a list of what their tax dollars were spent on every year. You'd simply take the money they paid and divide it over how the federal government spends it. This would be so easy to do as well. Im agine if a person who paid $10,000 in taxes got this in the mail:
Amount spent on Defense - $1,800
Amount spent on SS - $2,000
Amount Spent on MEdicare - $1,200
Etc.
Maybe President Bill Owens, a fiscal conservative's conservative, will enact after he's elected in 2008.
What I get from my RINO Rep is how much she can "get back" from the Feds. A few million here for a local cause, a cool $500,000 there for a small project, etc. Hey, don't SPEND the money! What backward thinking that it is the role of the Congrescritter to grab all they can from the Feds. It makes the blind constituent think they are doing something guess.