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Because if The People were seeing the value, they wouldn’t be fighting it. Consider the Swedish model, taxes are high but the government is visibly doing a lot
by gaius 8y ago
Because if The People were seeing the value, they wouldn’t be fighting it. Consider the Swedish model, taxes are high but the government is visibly doing a lot of stuff. Whereas the California model is taxes are high and no one is really sure where the money went.
- dmix 8y agoIndeed, this was still the result of 'legislating democratically'. It was a self-imposed limitation by elected officials, it didn't come about arbitrarily but as a response to some political environment or consequences of actions. All bad laws were started with good intentions. That should never be what defines a law's value, only cause & effect to the best of our current understanding (and hopefully backed by data). Note: I'm not saying this is a bad law as I'm not familiar with the local political environment which motivated this nor the particular negative consequences it objectively has.