Elections are how you control where your tax money goes.
Micro-earmarks by voters would create enormous imbalances. Police get so much money for equipment that they can’t spend it all, while public defenders go unfunded.
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by capableweb on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:42AM
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> Micro-earmarks by voters would create enormous imbalances
How sure are you about this? Would love to see some research into how things would work if taxes were more "crowd-fund" oriented.
> Police get so much money for equipment that they can’t spend it all, while public defenders go unfunded.
Maybe in some places today it would go like that, and in others to opposite. Considering the huge wave of "defund the police and fund social work" in the US today, I think the balance would be the other way.
>Police get so much money for equipment that they can’t spend it all, while public defenders go unfunded.
Isn't that true today?
I agree, it would be nice to control where more tax money was directed.