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There is an interesting idea floating around the tax reform community.
Maybe the tax payer should get a receipt at the end of the year (just
a web site you can visit, not a piece of paper) that takes your total
tax bill and breaks it down into how much money went to SS, Medicare,
DoD, HHS etc.
It would be a real eye opener for most people. You quickly figure out
that most of the things people bitch about the loudest only cost them
$10 a year or less. The lion's share of your tax money goes to things
people are not willing to cut. Social Security and Medicare.
DoD is really the big slice of the pie that we can cut but it is
skillfully doled out to all 50 states so it is hard to get much
traction in congress for cutting any of it.
DoD is our ongoing stimulus project.

This isn't possible but, I would go in the opposite direction and tell
the taxpayer all of the taxes they are paying and where those taxes are
being collected. In most states every dollar you spend sends money to
the local, state and federal governments.