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Topic History of: My political suggestion for a winning party.
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JK2006 |
Ah David, my reason being that I think most people would be very unwilling to put their hard earned cash where their (tabloid) mouths are and that very little would be raised in the "voluntary" area but at least the media couldn't complain that there were too few prisons, for example, when their readers were not paying for them.
And the compulsory taxes area could be used in more intelligent ways. |
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david |
mmm Jonathan that sounds a bit like tabloid taxes to me- everyone would donate to the find Maddie fund and no one to HIV charities.
not a good idea in my very humble opinion. |
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Kyle |
BR. I agree that our politicians should run things - who else ? But a WMD vote giving 'a small majority in favour of an invasion'; how could you know that ?! |
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BR |
A society run by instant voting would struggle because the media can shape and distort what is actually happening.
For instance although millions were opposed to the Iraq war when Tony Blair said they had weapons of mass destruction that would have meant a vote of the public would have seen a small majority vote in favour of invasion.....so the pitfalls are many.
I think that when it comes to the bigger picture we have to give our politicians a chance to run things - though perhaps the current system is too weighted towards a two party system where the two parties are almost indentical in policy. Though at the moment Cameron is seen as the "most competent" of the two leaders - Brown is just accident prone. |
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Kyle |
Tax allocation voting has some merit - as described. But shouldn't we also vote on defence/military policy, NHS priorities, the legal system and immigration ? In fact, we do - every four years or so (and in between!). |
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