Vertigo-X said:
But they aren't "linked together", so to speak, for the purposes of making decisions about the nation. They each make decisions about their own areas and not of a much larger nation. Some people think the wait for things to get done in Congress is bad, it'd be much, much worse with 10,000 people trying to come to a single decision.
Not to say it's impossible, it's just there's a more effective way. |
That's now how I would wish it to work.
The moneys collected at the local level would go to things locally. One mayor would not care what the other mayor did with his money (unless one adjoining wanted to a larger project of some kind).
So for example, you would not have some central fund that money went into for school systems, and then one decision on how to manage all schools. You would have 10,000 independently funded school systems, all funded from the people who live in that community.
Sure, rich areas would have better schools then poor areas, but that's true today. What would happen however, is all schools would be better, because far more of the money would go to the school, If someone tried to embezzle school funds for some other project, it would be clear to the community it was being done, and it would be easy to elect someone new (because it's a small community).
The prefect world would be one government that did everything right. Governments are run by humans, so that's never going to happen. The next best thing, is a government with the most accountability. That's small government, decentralized.
