An Idea On The Tax System

You know, I was think about things, and how much I do really not enjoy taxes, and I was thinking... "There's got to be a better way to do this 'tax' thing. In some way that doesn't involve the government slowly taking more and more control of the populace." Then, an idea came to me, What if the American populace got to decide how much taxes to pay?!? If we decided how much those idiots in Washington D.C. got paid maybe they would stop being such idiots and actually pay attention to what they're doing.

The idea is that, At the beginning of the year, probably early February, a poll would be taken of the American population on the direction of the government and how satisfied they are with the progress and actions taken by the government. There would be some sort of rating system with which to grade the different areas of the government. The scores would then be averaged and according to the score, the government would get a set amount of money.

This would do a couple things;
1)it would force people to pay attention to the processes of the government
2)it would force the politicians running the government to actually do things people want

Now, I am aware that there are a few holes in this plan. How can we get everyone to take the poll? Can't people just take the poll without knowing anything about the government? What if people just vote for no taxes?

Firstly, the internet makes it easy for people to access anything, and people's social security number should suffice to make sure people only vote once. And as for those just choosing not to vote, well, there could also be a small tax break for those who choose to vote. And it is true that people could take the pool without knowing anything, but people do that when voting in the general election anyway, so i don't see what difference that makes. As for voting for no taxes, well, so goes all the social programs and other such things the government does, therefore people who favor those things would vote to give the government money.

Now, if the government is not allotted enough money it could still shut down programs, most likely the ones that actually do some good rather than things like racial quotas and economic regulations, so I've come up with a way to combat that as well. For every 2% of the budget cut in order to use the money allotted, all the politicians (that's right, all of them) take a 2% cut to their salary. That way, they can't just cut a bunch of stuff but still get paid. In fact, 2% might be generous, but I don't know enough about politician's salaries to make a mathematical calculation.

That is the overall idea, obviously there's some tweaking to be done and it's not perfect, but at least for once all these public servants will actually be serving the public.