Here is a crazy idea:
How about a fourth level of checks and balances?
Citizens that pay taxes could allocate where their tax dollars go by choosing from the wonderful projects that our elected officials have in mind. Good local projects would gain the funds they need from those local and some not local, while stupid ideas would fall by the wayside.
You could even do a hybrid model where our elected officials get to spend 20% of our dollars and we get to direct the rest (left wing nuts jobs and right wing radicals).
I makes sense to me...ideas?
Good idea, but won't ever happen. Do you know that some of the Founding Fathers believed and argued for only property holders have a vote within the new Constitutional Republic? They believed that those who didn't own property, but yet had a vote, would eventually vote themselves the largess of the property owners?
Benjamin Franklin said something similar, to paraphrase, "Once the populace discovers it can vote itself the largess of the treasury, the Republic is doomed".
Are we not now seeing such a concept in our welfare state, and our ever increasing re-distribuion of wealth under the Bush and more so the Obama administrations?
Fifty, I say again, almost 50% of Americans don't pay taxes. So let me get this straight: Those non-tax paying Americans are still getting the benefit of national defense; medi-care; housing in some instances; welfare and food stamps; local police and other emergency services, free education; and countless other Fedgov and State benefits? Thanks to your taxes, providing you aren't in the bottom 50 percentile. And the MSM wonders why we are pissed off?
How about spending follow the US Constitution. All spending not based on that doc. is phased out in three years.
All who votrd for TARP or CRA be tried for treason and hung.
Let’s see obo’s birth cert.