At this point in our technological capability, we ought to be able to declaratively TELL the IRS what "WE" volunteer our taxes to go to, in as little or as much a granular level as we want.  IN other words,  A LA CARTE volunteering of our taxes I imagine it looking like a series of checkboxes.  You can check a section, which will autocheck all the subgroups under that section.  By default, all sections are checked, meaning that your taxes go equally to ALL of the government But you can expand out the subgroups and UNCHECK that which you don't want to give to YOu can uncheck entire sections No sections should be "greyed out" as uncheckable, for example. You give the same amount of taxes, which is the amount you give now It's just that instead of all of it going equally to all departments, you can tell the IRS you're not paying, for example, for funding of science, or education Or for roads Or you can defund the military.  OR you can be specific and pay for national guard and defensive things like ablative armor, body armor, the iron dome type tech, antimissile systems, etc But NOT for Uranium, not for uranium tipped shells, not for more tanks or jets or aircraft carriers or subs; or not to add more soldiers.    This is what I have wanted for years.  I'd pull all funding to the state dept and USAID.  I would instead invest it all in the PEOPLE of the US--- pay for roads for infrastructure, bridges, .... for factories, for funding of small business opportunities for anyone with a good and viable plan and no criminal record....   even special plans for those WITH a crimnal record I'd buld the wall....  I'd build up coastal defenses against hurricanes like those enormous concrete structures that Japan uses to repel tsunamis, reforesting....etc I would defund the shit out of all the othyer countries and stupid programs like studying hamster's reactions to flashing lights