Consumer Information

We get receipts for everything we purchase, a carefully detailed breakdown for our information. Where is our receipt for taxes? Below is from a paper, A Taxpayer's Receipt, compiled by a think tank called Third Way. These writers contend that for a person to be able to effectively vote on fiscal policy they should know where their taxes are going; most people in the U.S. do not know.

Once we file our taxes, we would receive a receipt that looks something like this:

I believe this would be an excellent idea. An educated consumer would be a much better voter.