Automatic Audit For The People

Here's an Tax Revolt/Tea Party idea that might just help thin the tax-cheat herd.

If you want to hold political office you must submit to an IRS or State tax audit.

It doesn't have to be a full bore audit, just a forensic review of the last - oh say - three years of your tax forms.

State by state, we could demand a referendum requiring local, state, and/or federal politicians to submit to this review. Perhaps it could even become a Constitutional Amendment that all political appointees not be tax cheats. Government transparency, you know.

We require our politicians at every level not to be felons, addicts, or illegal immigrants, why not require our politicians to not be tax cheats as well?

And it would give our National Tax Revolt a nice clear objective and focus...