Taking that proposal a step further, he suggests that Uncle Sam could adopt a system similar to California's "ReadyReturn" program, where taxpayers can log on to a database and see the government's estimate for their tax returns based on historical and wage information.

FORBES: In The Future, Tax Filing Will Be Easy

Kim Young Sam promised to clean-up the political system.

BBC: News Online

Its distribution system, fine-tuned over decades by Sam Walton, is unequaled in retailing.

FORBES: The Amazon trance

Shining a light on the current system would likely reveal that people actually pay more taxes than they think they do, says Sam Batkins, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, a Washington-based group has supported the flat tax.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Silent Sentry, as the Lockheed system is known, will be tested by the American government in a few weeks time, according to Sam Crow, the project's leader.

ECONOMIST: Remote sensing