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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @07:20AM (#15131184)
One of the many conundrums of modern politics is that the tax collectors could indeed collect more tax if they were better funded, so every tax dollar spent would recoup more than one tax dollar, yet this is resisted by the people who are presumably not currently paying what they should under current laws, and they've convinced people who do pay what they should under current laws, that this is a good thing.
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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by KGIII on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @07:39AM (#15131273)
I'd suspect there wouldn't be much funding to provide access to impaired people, either. Most people probably aren't all that interested in paying for things in Braille.

I live in an unincorporated township, with just a few residents. My road would never get plowed or maintained.

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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by mirekrusin on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:21AM (#15132330)
I didn't mean total replacement, in some cases it would work better, in other cases what we've got actually works pretty well. I meant some percentage of your tax should be controlled by the taxpayer directly, let's say 1% to start, increasing every 4 years by 1% up to, 20% for example.
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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by KGIII on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:28PM (#15133495)
I don't think 20% of the budget is capable of being discretionary. If you're really wanting to do so, some government agencies actually accept donations. When I sold my business, I donated to NASA. I couldn't earmark the donation for something like educational outreach as donations have to go into the general fund.
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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by danarmak on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:49AM (#15132099)
Related: a book Pratchett teased but didn't complete was about tax management: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_Taxes
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