Yeah, there are definitely issues determining what the essential government costs are, so let’s assume that system is in place and works well. I agree about th

Yeah, there are definitely issues determining what the essential government costs are, so let’s assume that system is in place and works well. I agree about the underfunding and overfunding point. However, I can imagine a community like HN would maybe dump more money into research and tech related things, and would be happy doing it. There will be niche funding groups for various sexy and unsexy organizations, and the nice thing is, people will be happier to “give” the government some of their income, rather than watch it get wasted in a black box. It’s definitely difficult to minimize rich having too much financial power in this system, but it could possibly use a system analogous to the bicameral legislature where big states are limited in power by every state getting the same number of senators.