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There is a fix: I believe that much of what is wrong in America could be easily remedied by separating spending from funding. Let elected representatives debate and propose spending all they want BUT only citizen taxpayers should be able to approve funding. If each and every budget were subjected to approval by citizen taxpayers and audited by Doge the American people would quickly get the government they want to the extent they are willing to pay for it. This would restore a good deal of harmony between people of very different political persuasions and fraud, waste and corruption would largely disappear. Let everyone put their own tax money where their mouth is. Let every citizen taxpayer take responsibility for how our government operates by assigning their tax dollars for or not for every proposed spending measure every year with every tax return. Let budgets shrink or swell based on performance and real time achievement of goals without the current graft, manipulation, fraud or waste, which would found on annual review, with the help of Doge, citizen taxpayer choices would accomplish what politicians can’t!
The role of elected representatives then becomes one of convincing voters that what they are proposing is (or isn’t) worth their tax dollars. And the role of citizen taxpayers is to come up to speed on the issues (with the help of Doge) to be willing to fund it.
Budgets should shrink or swell based on percentage of “yes, you can use my tax dollars for that.” Just imagine how much money citizen taxpayers would have allocated for condoms in Madagascar? Or for Somali Feeding the Future scams! See, harmony between liberals and conservatives would be one of the unintended consequences of this plan.
And in defense of the stupid, illiterate American taxpayer, I believe that nothing focuses the mind like the pilfering of your own hard earned money. They may not understand nuance but a common sense self-interest is likely to produce better governance than what we have now if only THEY control funding.
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