What Knowing Where Your Money Goes Doesn’t Change

John Sides's survey found that giving taxpayers a receipt didn't significantly move opinion:

A tax receipt may be a valuable reform, even if it does not change how Americans feel about their taxes or how they might attempt to cut the budget deficit. Nevertheless, it is perhaps surprising that the receipt had such small effects in this experiment, given how little many Americans know about how the government spends its money.

Example of a taxpayer receipt, via Ezra, after the jump:

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