How about having the federal government assign each of us (who are actually paying the income tax) specific people to support/sponsor with our hard earned money. Each member of the non-income-tax paying group (47% of the population!!) could have a "sponsor".

In the memo section of the check, allocate the money specifically to your sponsorees along with dollar amounts assigned by the government.

That way we would know exactly who our money is going to and it would even cut out some of the middle men (big govt) allowing us to sponsor even more!