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By Chris O’Toole

Are you an American citizen? Do you pay your taxes to the federal government? Then I bet you would like some idea of where half of your salary goes every year. Unfortunately, few actually know where the money goes. In fact, even the politicians don’t know where the money is being funneled. The concept of “pork-barreling” is diabolical and seemingly unstoppable.

If a politician wants a bill to be passed, all he or she must do is vote for it. However, the legislature for a typical bill is typically over 1,000 pages long. So, instead of reading closely to see what “money requests” were slipped in (and from whom), the politician will vote for the bill based only on the terms and qualifications of the section that they want to be passed. This process is entirely legal and occurs every day.

While there is nothing that can be done to desist this process, it can be monitored through GPS tracking. If GPS tracking was to be implemented, then the taxpayer that shells out a fortune to help the rich get richer could see the marked bills that were being distributed to different companies. The GPS marked bills could be registered with the government so that a simple website could hold every corrupt politician with an itch for deeper pockets liable for doling out millions of dollars to companies that struck inside deals with the lobbyists and politicians.

Picture a world where the tax money went where it was supposed to. An inordinate amount of marked money seems to go to an offshore location month after month and millions of people see this online. Eventually, an investigation begins and the legal money laundering is kaiboshed. No one is to blame for the tax giving except for the lobbyists.

The politicians would like to prevent wasteful spending, but they really just want to pass bills that will advance the state of America. So, they pass the bills without reading 20,000 pages a week. The government has its hands tied because the bill has been passed and the money must be delivered for vague “grants” and “projects”. If there is a single hub of money monitoring, bills can be passed that will prevent any further money delivered to wasteful and useless projects (like Bridge to Nowhere). This future is possible with the simple application of GPS tracking.