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Elections are how you control where your tax money goes. Micro-earmarks by voters would create enormous imbalances. Police get so much money for equipment that
by pavlov 6y ago
Elections are how you control where your tax money goes.
Micro-earmarks by voters would create enormous imbalances. Police get so much money for equipment that they can’t spend it all, while public defenders go unfunded.
- jonhohle 6y agoThe donations are categorized: organizations the at help the working poor, schools (woefully underfunded in AZ), foster and adoption organizations.
- capableweb 6y ago> Micro-earmarks by voters would create enormous imbalances How sure are you about this? Would love to see some research into how things would work if taxes were more "crowd-fund" oriented. > Police get so much money for equipment that they can’t spend it all, while public defenders go unfunded. Maybe in some places today it would go like that, and in others to opposite. Considering the huge wave of "defund the police and fund social work" in the US today, I think the balance would be the other way.
- ahepp 6y ago>Police get so much money for equipment that they can’t spend it all, while public defenders go unfunded. Isn't that true today?