Writer Proposes Giving Taxpayers 'Receipt'
How much do you pay in taxes each year? And what does that money go to pay for? Most people don't know. For instance, how much of your money do you think goes toward Federal Highways each year? A couple thousand? A couple hundred? Well, if you make right around $34,000 per year, $68 of what you pay in taxes goes to federal highways.
But how would you know that since you never receive a breakdown of where your money is going?
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post says why not give us a 'receipt' for our taxes. Read the article and let me know if you would appreciate getting a receipt or if it's all the same to you?
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
2 comments:
I think it would be better to post websites for different locales estimating what someone is paying if you plug in information. It would be cheaper than sending receipts through the mail or having to hire people to do the dirty office work.
I would love an easy to read synopsis of how my taxes are used. In addition, I want to know how much of the taxes and fees toward small and big business get passed to me (ie mobile phone etc.).
I agree with the earlier post. The receipt should be electronic only, not a snail mail document.
Adam
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