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RE: Yeah about that...
By wordsworm on 10/30/2011 2:25:16 AM , Rating: 2
It would be interesting to see what would happen if everyone had a direct say in what happened to their taxes. ie., you choose to give your taxes to schools if you believe in that, or roads if you believe in that, etc. I am sure it wouldn't work, but it would certainly be interesting.

RE: Yeah about that...
By vol7ron on 10/30/2011 12:31:45 PM , Rating: 2
I am not certain it wouldn't work, but yes, you need some sort of decisive agent making the ultimate say. When the government first started it wanted the more wealthy landholders to have the say. Later, they wanted to put intelligence tests on voting, but this was run by bosses that were corrupt. Eventually everyone was given a fair voice/vote, instead of being forced into how to vote.

The problem is that our culture has advanced, mostly attributed to improvements in technology. People are more connected these days, but unfortunately, the average intelligence has dropped. Not to mention, there are more and more immigrants (legal and illegal) that infiltrate our society and are given a voice, that doesn't follow suit with what our original founding fathers had set. Mind you, many people escaping Europe and coming to the Americas were trying to escape the tyranny and high taxes that were instilled on them.

I'm not sure how we can improve our intelligence. But I'm afraid that one day the majority vote might have us all wearing gold chains and driving Escalades, but living in impoverishment conditions - an obvious generalization/overstatement of ghetto decisions of wants vs needs. So while I do agree, that I would like to have more of a decision to where my tax dollars are spent, I feel that our current system isn't set up to adequately appropriate the decision of the masses. Still, I don't expect my tax dollars to be spent as investments; instead it should be used for operational expenses. And since I have no control in them being spent as investments, if they are, I believe they should not be put towards risky investments - the government should be batting 1000 on those investments.

