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It may not be a good thing, but it offers advantages currently unavailable in our current system--a way for citizens to shoot down piggybacked laws. The flip s
by eric-hu 15y ago
It may not be a good thing, but it offers advantages currently unavailable in our current system--a way for citizens to shoot down piggybacked laws.
The flip side is that large, money backed entities could also use FUD to manipulate citizens into shooting down clauses in bills.
- mhartl 15y agoHeed the flip side. Imagine in your mind some special interest groups. Powerful special interest groups. The most powerful special interest groups. Are you imagining, e.g., the permanent civil service, academics, scientists, Medicare and Social Security recipients, and homeowners? Probably not. And yet, there they are. One of the greatest tricks of the most powerful interest groups has been to convince the world that, Keyser Söze–like, they don't even exist. And, unfortunately, you can't give citizens the power to eliminate pork without unleashing these hungry pigs upon the trough.