Directing Your Tax Dollars
Posted in Politics-Goverment on Apr 15th, 2009
Before you go thinking you can decide exactly where your tax dollars should go, that’s not what I’m going to write about. But really, I don’t think anyone (not even legislators, government executives, or bureaucrats) can actually direct their specific tax dollars anywhere for the simple reason that you can’t know the $1,000 you are spending is the exact $1,000 you paid in taxes.
But I digress…
Today is the Federal tax filing deadline (State of Hawaii returns are due April 20). Every year, several of the questions that let me “direct” my tax dollars always receive special attention from me.
