| Kantor said: A question to all bottom-left quadrant people: How, exactly, would you redistribute the wealth? You seem to be against the idea of government power, so do you suppose rich people would just put half of their money (or 95% as the case may be) in large wheelbarrows and dump it in public areas to be taken by anyone who "needed" it? |
Not necessarily though, it's just a matter of how that power is handled.
My personal problem with governments in this day and age is that it's too big, too complicated and too far removed from our daily lives. The government is here to protect the people through various means, like checking we're not decieved by corporations, making sure we can feel safe from criminals, and supporting us if we can't support ourselves.
Taxation should just be a simple system, and the government should be passing the money out to the people (in the case of support through money) or to firms taking care of different tasks for the government (like healthcare).
Digitilization really is key here, because it allows for complex administration at low cost, compared to having people doing the administration. The people working under the government (i.e. not the politicians) should only be hired for either a) checking that corporations follow the rules set by the government, or b) doing the jobs that no private corporations wants to do.
There are probably a bunch of flaws in this model, but it's not really anything I've thought through. But anyway, that's how I'd like to see the government, small, yet very capable of providing services to its citizens.
