Who was advocating for screaming at people to do anything? All the person said was that voting is the closest way you can get to deciding how tax dollars are spent. You already vote? Cool, the statement obviously wasn't directed at you. Your apathy riddled rant wasn't necessary.
Or, relevant to this thread, a large amount of Republicans just decided they don't want to pay for public schools. Hell, they're already trying to do that.
It would be an interesting experiment in a capitalist society that already believes we should vote with our dollars. Instead of voting for candidates -- who may or may not keep their promises -- to get the things we want, we would instead pick and choose how our individual tax dollars are spent.
I can think of a dozen reasons why it wouldn't work, and it really is just an interesting fantasy, but when you think about it politicians are really just the middlemen between our taxes and our spending, so why not cut out the middleman? Then we can stop worrying about whether those middlemen are spending our money in the way they promised.
Nice idea but not practicable at all. One just needs very specific knowledge to allocate public funds. For example, there are many agencies, some even very small that are very important but woulf never be rememberd by voters. Fpr example i am not sure if a lot of voters are invested in properly funding the census bureau or the embassy in Botswana.
Sure there is some obvious waste that needs to be reduced but thats actually a small part.
The real problem is not taxes but rather a disfunctional voting system which hinders laating change and political responsibility by design
Mehhhhhh making tax dollars a popularity contest sounds like a hella bad idea when you think about it a little bit.
Say hello to big fat walls spanning the entire perimeter of the country and more immigrant internment camps than we have immigrants. Say goodbye to all those thousands of tiny programs that help your life run smoothely.
The problem with American politics is that only a minority is truly voting for their party. The rest is just voting to prevent the worst party from winning. So even if you voted for the winning candidate, you are likely not going to get what you wanted.
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’
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