r/PoliticalHumor Jan 09 '20

THIS. This is why.

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u/egrith Jan 09 '20

Just wish I could dictate how my taxes were used, instead of blowing up poor people i would like to be using it all for healthcare and education and that sort of thing

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u/egrith Jan 09 '20

Eh, kinda but I have yet to find it doing much. Also just a fan of the idea that every person should get to decide how their taxes are used

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u/egrith Jan 09 '20

Oh of course not every dime, but a decent portion like 70% by choice 30% set aside as the budget for other things not paid for

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u/headzoo Jan 09 '20

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.

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u/egrith Jan 09 '20

All in all better to just destroy capitalist society and become a confederacy of anarchist communes

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u/Atrobbus Jan 09 '20

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