French economist scours spreadsheets to find secret offshore accounts

Re:French economist scours spreadsheets to find secret offsh... by adamredwoods on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:15PM (#19996568)

I feel at some point tax payers should be allowed to select where their money goes, in a broad sense (military, education, arts, infrastructure), but allowing a portion to go a mixed-use fund for government flexibility.

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Re:French economist scours spreadsheets to find secret offsh... by anoncake on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:36AM (#19999914)

> I feel at some point tax payers should be allowed to select where their money goes

They can, by voting.

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Re:French economist scours spreadsheets to find secret offsh... by adamredwoods on Friday May 24, 2019 @02:02PM (#20003891)

I feel there is a disconnect between voting for representation and where money is allocated. In the US, voting does not guarantee representation, as losing votes are essentially useless.

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Re:French economist scours spreadsheets to find secret offsh... by anoncake on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:35PM (#20004644)

True. But that's a bigger issue than "just" some money being misallocated. Letting taxpayers decide individually where "their" money goes also smells like census suffrage.

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