Honor top tax-payers at Presidential dinners

All Presidents hold many domestic events where the typical audience consists of top party donors, wealthy executives, powerful lobbyists, celebrities, leading politicians, media contacts, and so forth. If America were a business, this would be like the CEO hosting dinners for bankers, executives, and friends - but never inviting the top customers or salespeople.

America's finances are like a business - we bring money in to pay for the government, which then tries to invest in the common good in ways that no individual or private organization could. So why not have presidential dinners with the Americans who are most helping our nation's business of governance? I'm thinking of audiences with:

• Citizens who paid the most personal income tax last year
• Executives from the top ten corporate taxpayers
• Federal agency heads whose departments accomplished their goals and came in the most under budget
• Federal contractors who completed their projects the most under budget (and returned the money to the treasury)
• Whistle-blowers who exposed the ten largest amounts fraud and waste
• Representatives whose districts had the fewest earmarks or highest ratio of taxes paid to federal funds accepted

In other words, give access to Presidential influence through paying taxes and improving government performance, rather than raising thousands or millions for one candidate or party.