News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on 16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines. Parent comment

Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by isostatic on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:58AM (#20765704)
Local referendums rather than representative democracy is odd - don’t you pay your reps to research the options and make the beat descision. I wouldn’t have time to understand 15 options

We tend to have 5 or 6 layers of government too so I don’t see the problem there.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by 18pfsmt on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:15PM (#20773236)
We do not have a federal sales tax (i.e. VAT). Europe hasn't had yearly GDP growth over 1% in 25 years, and Europe is issuing bonds at negative % rates. The U.S. subsidizes the European military defenses and pharmaceutical prices to boot.

I have no issue with European countries sovereign decisions, but when Europeans project their ideas on Americans I take great offense.

[ Parent | on HN ]