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I've always wondered what government funding would look like if taxpayers could allocate their tax dollars at their own discretion. I don't think it would be al
by its_ethan 2y ago
I've always wondered what government funding would look like if taxpayers could allocate their tax dollars at their own discretion. I don't think it would be all that functional in practice, but the idea of it seems interesting.
- Loughla 2y agoThat would be an absolute shit show. But it would genuinely be interesting to see what people value. Right before the inevitable collapse.
- _3u10 2y agoThose that want free healthcare could easily fund it. Honestly I think it would work far better than anyone imagines.
- School-Cotton 2y agoHealthcare is already a huge fraction of the government budget. The lack of free universal healthcare in the U.S. isn’t due to cost.
- bombcar 2y agoI saw a study where they asked people to estimate the budget and discussed how wrong they got it. We do have a tiny bit of say with the presidential election fund.
- MyFedora 2y agoSounds like any government with little to no taxes to me. Do you want anything? Pay for it. No subsidized social services. No nothing. Pay up.
- kelnos 2y agoI think the idea would be that the government would collect the same amount of taxes, but the taxpayers would get to directly allocate their portion where they want it to go. They couldn't decide to not pay taxes at all, or even pay less.
- robertclaus 2y agoThe amount of money going towards advertisement for specific government bodies would explode. Maybe good for civics education, probably not good for the government's budget.