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As a Canadian, I'd be willing to pay an extra $X in taxes just to see if this would work or not. They should probably roll it out provincially in isolated areas
by waterside81 16y ago
As a Canadian, I'd be willing to pay an extra $X in taxes just to see if this would work or not. They should probably roll it out provincially in isolated areas first rather than going the full 9 yards (or metres as the case may be.)
- olalonde 16y agoYou wouldn't necessarily have to pay an extra if we cut down on public services and let people manage their money.
- rapind 16y agoWhile this is a perfectly logical statement, there's absolutelty no chance it would reduce the cost of public services in reality. We don't fire government workers, they just get new titles / department names. If anything the public service costs would increase as new oversight commities and other completely useless entities were created to manage the migration from our current system.
- JabavuAdams 16y agoBureaucrats need jobs, too.
- gruseom 16y agoI like the experimentalness of it too, plus the fact that it goes against certain moral intuitions that have proven themselves rather fruitless in practice (bootstraps, blah blah). Real leaps tend to be counterintuitive. It does worry me that it seems dangerously write-only.