I was thinking along the same lines today, too. We need to be able to allocate where our money goes when we pay taxes. That way we really speak and they have to listen.
It can be done with a simple direct deposit into the account of the department we want to fund. As simple as donating to Free Republic! (I noticed the link.)
This is especially important in regards to funding abortion, or other programs (even funding schools that do not allow prayer, teach evolution or promote child sex) that are absolutely against our religion.
If there are programs that need our support, a simple graph with the goal needed can be shown. If a program is not wanted we should be able to click on the thumbs down icon like we see on other websites.
Why can’t we have it that way? You go to a store or shop you pay for what you want and what you don’t want, you don’t pay.
Seems relatively simple to me. If there is not enough money for it it doesn’t happen.
As much as it sounds like a scam, I do have this project where people put into a fund, as low as $1.00 a week and what we do is pay off peoples mortgage. Get enough people into it, the faster it will be to create jobs. The prime logic of it is if we are in trouble because of being in debt then why not cut the debt like we cut cancer. The money not being paid to a mortgage is spent out to the workforce to put bread on the tables of the American Families. Which does what? Create jobs. The money goes out to the many and not the few and it will lessen the burden on the government. How? Less crime rate so Law Enforcement does not have to worry about desperate people doing desperate things to try to keep their house. Also we may also start a tread of owner financing rather get in debt up past our eyeballs.