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Its a shame you can't pay a "core 80%" set of taxes, then choose what other things your "extra 20%" would go towards. NASA, climate stuff, recycling, bee stuff,

• anigbrowl 9y ago
  I wonder how hard would it be to just start building the infrastructure like this in some sort of 'wikibudget.org' and then using that as political leverage? Everyone who liked the system well enough to participate in it could get behind that, even if their individual allocation preferences did not win out or were different from others'. this might overcome the divide-and-conquer strategy of the polity-industrial complex. For example, suppose Alice wants to spend less on defense and more on schools; Bob wants to spend less on schools but more on veterans, and Carol hates the F-35 program but likes both schools and veterans. As individuals they might donate to and volunteer for different organizations with different missions, but if they were all able to participate in dividing up an imaginary budget they could work together to get their compromise budget enacted even though they would be doing so for different reasons. My gut says it would take between 5 and 10 years for such a thing to gain sufficient political momentum to seriously threaten the current system, maybe longer; but then the idea that Wikipedia might become the introductory reference source of choice was once considered laughable too, notwithstanding its current imperfections. Anyone?