Dollar Democracy
in Action.
I’m Not Who You’d Expect
I’m not a Washington insider. I’m not a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I didn’t come from a think tank, a policy school, or a campaign. I’m an ordinary American taxpayer who got fed up — and then did something about it.
I’ve been watching the same show for decades. Washington spends trillions of dollars every year. Congress holds closed-door meetings. Lobbyists write the bills. And the rest of us — the people actually paying for all of it — get to watch from the sidelines and vote every two years for someone who will probably ignore us anyway.
I held taxpoints.org for over ten years before building this. You don’t hold a domain for a decade on a whim. You hold it because something inside you keeps saying: this should exist. This needs to exist.
Tax Day 2026. That’s the moment. April 15th — the one day a year every American thinks about exactly where their money goes — is when Taxpoints goes live.
What This Is. And Isn’t.
This is not a partisan project. Waste is bipartisan. The data will prove it.
This is not an anti-government project. It’s a pro-accountability project. Government should spend our money well. When it doesn’t, we should be able to say so — loudly, specifically, and in numbers.
This is not a cynical project. If enough Americans participate, this data becomes impossible for Congress to ignore. That’s not naivety — that’s arithmetic.
This is not someone else’s project. It belongs to every taxpayer who joins. The data is yours. The voice is yours. I’m just the person who built the platform.
This is dollar democracy. The idea that the people who fund the government should have a direct, measurable, undismissable say in how it spends their money.
Who Pays For This
Right now, Taxpoints is founder-funded. One ordinary taxpayer, building something that should exist, paying for it out of pocket until enough people join to make it self-sustaining. No mystery. No hidden backers. No agenda.
A small annual fee is coming — and we’ll be straight about why.
First, the data. A free platform is an open invitation for bots and bad actors to flood the system with fake votes and corrupt the measurement. When real money is attached, even a few dollars, the signal becomes real. One verified person. One honest vote. That’s the only way this data means anything to anyone — including Congress.
Second, the platform. Taxpoints is built and run by an independent founder with no corporate backing, no advertisers, and no donors with agendas. Keeping it that way requires real funding. If this platform is going to grow — more categories, state and local budgets, legislator scorecards, real accountability tools — it needs to be financially sustainable. A small annual fee from a large number of Americans is the cleanest way to get there.
A platform funded by citizens answers to citizens. That’s the only constituency we answer to.
Early supporters who contribute $5 or more today will be recognized as founding members and grandfathered into future membership at no additional cost.
Support Taxpoints →What We Will Never Do
- Run ads.
- Take money from political organizations or PACs.
- Accept donations from ideologically-aligned foundations.
- Take government contracts that create conflicts of interest with the data we measure.
- Promote or suppress results based on who’s paying attention.
The moment we take money from a source with an agenda, the data becomes suspect. We are not willing to make that trade.
Where This Goes
Taxpoints launches with the federal budget — $6.75 trillion across 14 categories. That’s the start, not the finish.
As the platform grows, the measurement goes deeper. More subcategories. Earmark attribution. Legislator scorecards. And eventually — state and local budgets too. Every level of government where your money goes and your voice has been absent.
The gap exists everywhere. We intend to measure all of it.
Cast your vote. Add your voice.
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