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Many Americans find some kinds of tax spending more worthy than others. For example, an American taxpayer may find Social Security to be a more worthy type of spending than a government official's paycheck. Why not allow a taxpayer with such a belief, for instance, to get a tax-deductible receipt when making a voluntary donation to Social Security? In more general terms, why not give taxpayers tax-deductible receipts when they make voluntary donations to their favorite governmental funds?
Yaakov Simon, Jan 06 2010
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but Social Security is administered by 'governement officials' that all make paychecks. So you mean that we would 'donate' to certain departments, then receive a one-for-one deduction? Than people would essentially cafeteria -pay their taxes?
I wouldn't be against that, as many programs would disappear because it would be apparent that the people paying don't support them, but the people that pay taxes likely wouldn't support the programs that equalize wealth, so social programs would wither.
I object to a federal government that pays more than 19 percent of the employees $100k (according to USA Today)