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The thing that everyone thinks is nuts, but I absolutely think would work: a presentation that looked like an Apple keynote product launch, but for all the cool shit that the government makes for people. Cancer treatments, national parks, space discoveries, free tax filing, cool new airports.

Related, people should get a yearly receipt of how taxes they pay break down in terms of spending and benefits. 10k in taxes paid = $1400 for defense, $300 for cancer and vaccine research, etc. Hard to be mad about foreign aid if people know it costs them like $2 personally.

The UK actually does this. (I’ve dropped my personalised amounts column here.) It’s readily available in every taxpayer’s online account.