Should tax payers have an annual statement sent out to them that shows in detail how each tax dollar...?

Question

they gave was used and what it paid for?

Answer 1

I think it should....but they would all say foreign aid to Israel on them. I'm not an anti-semite by any means, I just think something is wrong when our government can't manage hurricane relief efforts and can't keep up with bridge and road repair but takes billions of dollars of our tax money and ships it over to a welfare state.

Answer 2

All it would say is "Paid against the Federal Deficit", because

that's all that your tax dollars actually go to.

:-(

Answer 3

No, thanks. Then we'd be paying MORE taxes for all kinds of government employees who now have to track spending from each person in the US and also for the paper statements and postage. It wouldn't be worth it!

Answer 4

There used to be an accounting break-down every year when the president gave the budget to Congress.  With today's deficite spending, though, the budget is actually a statement of debt.  

I'd say that the government is now trying to keep that much debt under wraps because recent polls show that most Americans don't know that the National Debt is $10,000,000,000 (ten trillion USD) and climbing.  The largest portion of your tax dollar, in fact, goes to pay the interest on that debt.

edit:  compared to the billions of USD given to oil companies in government subsidies, and more billions to oil companies in oil depletion allowances where the oil companies get to write off oil profits as LOSSES, our aid to Israel is bupkus, a tiny bit.  Foreign oil is costing $1,000,000,000 (a billion USD) PER DAY!!!!!  Israel -  almost nothing by comparison.