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6/6/2014 2:24:16 PM
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Would you prefer to choose where your taxes went?
Just a general hypothetical here, if you could choose exactly which governmental department or institute got your taxes, where would you choose to send them?
Often I hear people in Britain complain about how "My taxes are paying for benefit cheats and immigrants" or "These roads are terrible, where do my taxes go?" and all that nonsensical jazz. So I thought why couldn't we choose where our taxes went?
Obviously if you could see potential problems with that, go ahead and give criticism or better solutions, it would be interesting to see what the Flood thinks. If you don't pay taxes, vote anyway.
[b]TL;DR[/b] [i]Where would you want you taxes to go to (if you had to pay)?[/i]
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Edited by Bistromathics: 6/6/2014 10:16:20 PMI and most other people don't know enough about the issues or how to fund programs that can solve them. Even when we do, there's no guarantee that a large group can be rational enough to fund the things that need money. In theory, this is why we have representatives: they're motivated and intelligent individuals who are going to make it their jobs to become educated and act on our behalf. In practice, that doesn't always work out.
