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I'm a late-Boomer, milquetoast-Libertarian, in the Classical Liberal faction. In my country our state has a 'one stop shop' website that handles most routine s
by eucryphia 6y ago
I'm a late-Boomer, milquetoast-Libertarian, in the Classical Liberal faction.
In my country our state has a 'one stop shop' website that handles most routine state government licencing payments.
This is much better than say 10 years ago when it was a multitude of separate mailed paper bills.
I can log in and see where my car licence and registration is due, a lot of other potential Govt. services (most of the welfare services I don't use) my fishing licence (funds cover policing of regulations and community projects to conserve fish habitats).
The car rego is linked to my car service shop so when I get an annual safety check my old car requires it's automatically sent through. This used to be a painful process 20 years ago, queuing up at the motor registry that used to close at lunchtime so the staff could have lunch.
It's not the ideal Libertarian tradeoff, but much better than what it used to be and a lot cheaper for the Government to run. They actually dropped registration charges a while back, with a refund! Virtue signalling maybe, but it's the kind I like.
- thephyber 6y agoI think our (California) DMV has started replacing the most common workflows with internet options years ago and they are definitely improvements over the previous method (take time during business day to visit one of the few offices, wait in a long queue, deal with slow paper-based forms). There are US initiatives (Code For America, US Digital Service, 18F, etc) which aim to make the government experience better for the user on an app-by-app basis, but I'm hoping to get a glimpse of what the entirety of government could be if there was a holistic approach to redesign the entire experience (from licensing+permitting to taxes to benefits to giving+incorporating feedback, etc).