A picnic in the ruins
I
just ended my viewing of a live feed from a “town hall meeting” that
illustrates, at least in my culture, a micro view opportunity of our current
Tainter Symplification.
Public
comes to view taxes as something “bad” & government as something to “big”.
Public
elects people who talk about that, from the group of people that taught them to
think that.
A
state government cuts funds for something that happens locally. Local
governments are not amused.
What
is interesting in all of this, is what is not discussed:
Reduce
state tax cuts and restore funding
Or
increase state taxes and restore funding
Or,
local governments raise taxes and if necessary politically force the state to
restore local powers to do so.
It is like they cannot even think about those
options, which are traditionally, i.e. in the former complexity of a republic, standard. Perhaps that is, in my culture, a feature of
the simplification process. A certain helplessness in the face of the
simplification as it rolls downward?
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