That test asked for laws that you would enact. Here’s mine:
“I would dictate that… people have a form on the back of their tax returns indicating how they would like their tax dollars allocated, along with a chart indicating how the budget is currently broken down.”
I think that this would make the populace much more aware of where their money is going, and provide the government with a guideline of where they want it to go.
Nice thought, wouldn’t work though. First of all a form like thsat will never get onto a a tax form. Second, you’d be taking too much powser away from Congress, specifically, the House. Those people owe their whole job basically to how much money they can bring back home.
my law: anyone at a stop sign/stop light who throws something out their window (cigerette butt,etc) should be shot on sight.
I used to champion this idea, and I still like it. However, here’s the problem: The reason, like it or not, that Congress more or less works is that these people actually pay attention to the budget and its googoolplex of line items. I don’t know that I would be able to handle more than doing this roughly, much less getting beyond x% for defense, y% for peanut farmer subsidies. Also, we all will have kneejerk objections to a lot of programs that ultimately make sense (for instance, peanut farmer subsidies) — or at least, make enough sense that they shouldn’t be trashed on a whim by an ill-informed general population.
However, even using this information as advice from the public has its value — so long as it isn’t weighted by the dollar amount being taxed. (One vote/one person is different than one vote/one dollar.)
Mine was that every national leader should be subjected to public polygraph tests on a regular but random basis. Should cut down on at least SOME of the more egregious lies…
TWL
(who got Strong Democrat, to the likely surprise of no one)