Or maybe the country just needs more democracy? To be fair to Jefferson, though, he was more in favor of it than some of his coworkers, like Hamilton. There wa

Or maybe the country just needs more democracy? To be fair to Jefferson, though, he was more in favor of it than some of his coworkers, like Hamilton. There was a nice study from Cato institute (somewhat surprisingly), a comparison between different U.S. states, that showed that tax measures established by direct democracy (referendums) have less loopholes than the ones established by representative democracy.