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[Ddynamo]

What the Fuuuuuuuu-!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5X4TSbGreA

EDIT: "I want to tease SpongeBob's yellow pores." - The Burger King.

[Furtuka]

Crowdfunding a state goverment

[TheBiggerFish]

Crowdfunding a state goverment

Dafish is.
DDYKUDSAUEPECLLUUGGXVJVVDOURWOUUGH WHAT.
THIS IS STUPID.
WHY.  WHY CAN NOBODY LEARN TO BUDGET/SUDDENLY FORGETS HOW UPON OBTAINING PUBLIC OFFICE.

Well.  Most people, at least.  IIRC, the current governor is actually pursuing *gasp* reasonable courses of action over here.  Yay Maryland!

[SealyStar]

Crowdfunding a state goverment

I haven't laughed this hard in weeks. Sorry, Alabamans.

[EnigmaticHat]

That's glorious.

[Frumple]

Crowdfunding a state goverment

Some of those donation/etc. comments...

I liked one of the 5 buck ones quite a bit.

Please use this money for cab fare to your local library and check out any economics text book by Friedrich Hayek

Joke's on them, though. A library, in alabama? Ha. That may be a joke. Maybe.

[Orange Wizard]

Who thought that was a good idea

[Neonivek]

Who thought that was a good idea

It isn't a bad idea in concept. At least I see nothing wrong with a city gaining funding through crowd sourcing.

But lets just assume it is a good idea to do this... Like lets say it is standard and that all cities do this once in a while.

Who the heck just puts "Balance the budget" when crowd funding? It is the equivalent of saying "I will make RPG"

[Bauglir]

It's a bad idea because this is literally what taxes are supposed to be for, and because creating a government that's partially dependent on voluntary, earmarkable funding fucks the poor over pretty hard. Social services are a thing the poor need and can't pay for and the rich don't need and can pay for. Doing it this way, instead of passing a series of highly progressive tax hikes, all but guarantees that the tax funds will be reserved for "essential" government functions, and that if the poor want social programs they should "pay for it themselves". Meanwhile, the people with lots of wealth gain political clout by being able to make major financial contributions directly to their preferred slices of government. I mean, more easily than they already can, and now the process can be chalked up to "democratizing the budget" or something instead of the blatant corruption it is.

It's fucking heinous.

[Neonivek]

So essentially the use of crowd sourcing government spending is... Essentially privatizing the government.

[Bauglir]

Yeah, but in a way that looks like the exact opposite.

[Orange Wizard]

Publicly-traded government, perhaps?

[IcyTea31]

I don't see why they need to use a third party crowdfunding website. Wouldn't the same effect be made if they'd just collect an optional extra tax?

[Eric Blank]

Its not wholly bad to be able to provide extra impetus to a non-essential project that just couldn't be funded through taxes as they exist, given taxes shouldn't be raised just to accommodate anything that isnt actually important. I agree its no replacement for taxes that fund the necessary functions, basics of social security for the rest of us being part of that, and I doubt it ever really could be. We can argue to the end of days, just as we've been arguing since the beginning, over which services are or are not necessary or useful and to whom, or what is or is not fair, I guess. But as long as the taxes are always funding the entirety of what we have deemed to be important, I honestly don't see why you can't pay extra voluntarily to speed along something important to you. Everything gets abused regardless, because rules are meant to be broken, but I don't appreciate losing opportunities because someone else was a dumbass. Make it their problem directly, not through me.

That said, yeah Alabama's full of idiots for trying this to fix a budget defecit, instead of, yknow, budgeting for what they have available now and making plans to remedy their shortcomings and operate at full capacity when that becomes possible again. Just another plea for a bailout due to their own incompetence.

[Neyvn]

Challenges Father to a quick game of Geoguesser in our country of Australia...
First go I show how it works before handing it over.

First Guess
"Oh this is *Location*" 30kms off...

Second Guess
"Hey this is in Tasmania." 20kms off...

Third Guess
"I was here just the other day..." 15kms off... (He wasn't)

Last Guess...
"This is either here or over here..." First guess was correct but went with his second...

ALL these guesses were with the first image and a quick spin...