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Governments are super inefficient with tax dollars because there's no pressure for them to be efficient. If they run out of money they just raise taxes again. T
by daenz 4y ago
Governments are super inefficient with tax dollars because there's no pressure for them to be efficient. If they run out of money they just raise taxes again. There is very little accountability.
Some people believe the solution to this is to privatize everything so that it's more efficient. I can see that point of view, but it doesn't get around the fact that the private corporation doesn't have the pressure either, except at the initial bidding phase. Personally I think we should try to figure out how to pressure governments to be efficient, by tying elections more strongly to efficiency. Politicians should have KPIs.
- germinalphrase 4y agoReverse-gerrymandering in which races are made artificially competitive so politicians are required to be responsive rather than insulated.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoInteresting idea. I note, though, that one of the situations where people cry "gerrymandering" is when party X is the currently-dominant party in the state, and party Y has a "safe" district, and party X arranges to break up that district as they redraw the lines. That might qualify as a reverse-gerrymander, but people still complain about gerrymandering when it happens.
- germinalphrase 4y agoMy plan is entirely unrealistic. Neither party would ever agree to engage with the process because they fundamentally do not want competitive races. It’s essentially asking for mutual disarmament.