Although tax filing is still about six weeks away, I decided to get my taxes calculated just to see how much money I would be flushing down the toilet. Of course, one of the very first questions asked is whether or not I or my wife wanted to contribute $3 to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. As I have all my life, I just checked “No”.
I was curious, though – – how many people actually checked this thing? As it states, it doesn’t make your bill go up or down. It just allocates three freakin’ bucks of your gargantuan tax bill to this mystery-ass fund of theirs. Well, turns out there’s actually information on the participation, and let’s just say that interest is waning:
On top of this, there appears to be a war chest of over $400 million collected over the years that’s just sitting around, doing nothing. Well, I’m sure it’s just an accounting entry somewhere, but apparently candidates who take private contributions (which is all of them) can’t touch these public funds, so this thing is pretty much a relic from the early 1970s.
Another government success story. Just kill it, fellas. At this point, it’s just dumb.
