> I fail to be able to describe a scenario where raising taxes would ever win a straight democratic vote, even if it were a blatantly existential crisis for a n

> I fail to be able to describe a scenario where raising taxes would ever win a straight democratic vote, even if it were a blatantly existential crisis for a nation. I think the original point was that on a sufficiently small scale, this isn't true. I was in an HOA that raised the fees, because the reserve funds got down to under $10k.