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I wish I could choose how my tax dollars are spent. I'd like to avoid contributing to idiotic campaigns like this. Perhaps some day government will modernize t
by brenden2 7y ago
I wish I could choose how my tax dollars are spent. I'd like to avoid contributing to idiotic campaigns like this.
Perhaps some day government will modernize to the point where there's direct democracy and individuals can decide how to vote on policies and spending.
- hellisothers 7y agoLooking at the Prop system here in CA, that’s a double edged sword (with a knife for a hilt)
- trickstra 7y agoLooking at the choices voters regularly make in direct elections, I would be a little careful with that modernization.
- jumelles 7y agoYou choose by voting for people to represent you.
- zentiggr 7y agoDemocracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How’s that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let’s play that over again, too. Who decides? — Robert Heinlein EDIT: found the original text, rather than my somewhat botched memory of it.