Provide an annual summary tax receipt to each citizen detailing:
-Federal taxes paid that year / prior / lifetime
-Your ranking of taxes paid (you paid more than x% of Americans)
-Summary of benefits received (spending > 1% of total expenditures broken out)
Example: $/% went to National Defense, interest on debts, Social Security, etc
-Summary of benefits to your state / region / taxpayer profile
-Current / prior year’s budgeted & actual expenditures / obligations
-Total federal taxes collected that year / last year
-Current / prior year’s deficit / total debt
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Americans receive a receipt for buying a pack of gum. Yet, taxpayers receive little comparable after paying their taxes.
In today’s world of digital information, we can do better.