This idea would absolutely not work. Nobody would choose the stuff that's necessary but not cared about. The part of the idea that would work very well is to tax based on the spending instead of the income. one of the reasons people don't want to pay taxes is that they have no idea what they're getting for their money. If your tax bill said, for example, "30 dollars to pay armed forces personnel, 5 dollars to help states pay for teachers, 5000 dollars to pay Halliburton to drill for oil in iraq, 1000 to finance the national debt," then you'd know what you were getting for your money.
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