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When you're not responsible for balancing the budget, of course you're going vote for more spending and less taxes. The public at large has a lack of direct acc
by afterburner 16y ago
When you're not responsible for balancing the budget, of course you're going vote for more spending and less taxes. The public at large has a lack of direct accountability, so of course direct democracy is going to cause problems when applied to budgets.
- tomjen3 16y agoTrue, but that suggest an obvious solution: demand that each ballot initiative demanding spending includes the method by which the spending should be covered.
- afterburner 16y agoYup, they should try that. Something tells me it's been tried somewhere... I think the resistance will come from the lobby groups pushing these initiatives through, since they'll be annoyed at being forced to make their PR job harder.
- afterburner 16y agoDownvoted, really? Strange.
- afterburner 16y agoDownvoted for that too. Someone's spiteful. Here, downvote this too.