So, you're suggesting that the public should get to choose where their tax dollars go out of a list of preselected options. Who selects the options that go onto the list?
Voters? Would they want a department of books to be added to the list? It stands to reason that if the list gets longer... congress would probably receive more positive feedback (money) if it raised the tax rate.
Initially I thought that, in a pragmatarian system, the government would be the perfect embodiment of unmet demand. But now I'm not sure whether the public sector would grow larger. This is because the public sector market would be different from the private sector market.
In the private sector market there would be prices and profits but i...
Quotes are a unique enough medium of expression that I'm interested in viewing quotes that people have found collectable, emotionally impactful, useful, memorable, or otherwise noteworthy - perhaps others are similarly interested. To clarify, these need not be even remotely related to rationality. I'm hijacking the mandates traditionally used for the Rationality Quotes thread, with a few modifications:
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