From the linked Thirdway page: > Would this be hard and expensive for the federal government to do? It shouldn't be. The mathematical formula to do this is ver

From the linked Thirdway page: > Would this be hard and expensive for the federal government to do? It shouldn't be. The mathematical formula to do this is very simple. The Social Security Administration does this every year ... This would be far easier. It could also be done online. An IRS website should be available so people could key in the amount they pay in taxes and a receipt pops up showing several dozen recognizable programs and the amount that went to each of them Your point, I take it, is about government resistances and inefficiencies, and spot on. But it wouldn't have to be the government to do this. The information is available. Thirdway, or anyone, could do it themselves and make it available to any website. A developer could do an app and sell it for a dollar. edit: that was quick: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745312 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745312