Slimebeast on 28 April 2009
| Rath said: The reason why the cutting spending and raising taxes doesn't happen is because democracy is fundamentally flawed. Politicians aim to give the people what they want rather than what they need, raising taxes and cutting spending are both unpopular things. |
I agree with this, and I hate it! (although u mean 'democracy' in it's current Western form, 'parlamentary democracy' or something I think is the term)
The tempation to raise taxes for all these spending projects (whatever they are passionate about, it can be military, it can be a health care reform) is too big for politicians. And the methods of control are too weak. Yes you can vote them away, but instead comes another party with the same kind of thinking, just different projects.
