We need an API to block the government from spending more money.
It seems like voting for "fiscal conservatives" results in bigger spending.
It seems like voting for "fiscal conservatives" results in bigger spending.
Paper from 2004 on the topic: https://shapiro.macmillan.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files...
Paper from 2022 on the topic:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01603477.2022.20...
Wikipage with just economic indicators by party:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_p...
Common items used in woodworking and agriculture can be very useful: carving knives, axes, pitchforks and branding irons. Generally a big group of people holding their tools of trade in front of the palace/parliament/penthouse has been a pretty effective approach over the millennia.
But now, the other side has surveilance, tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets, drones, and very profitable incarceration facilities.
The other side has nothing. We operate the farms, the weapons, the hospitals, the IT infrastructure, the surveillance, the army, the transportation, the bullets, the drones and the incarceration facilities. The other side contributes nothing, does nothing, and if they continue on their current path, history has shown again and again that they will be reduced to nothing.
The public infratructure shrinks, while the rich get richer, partially from paid bond interesets. And you would just sit there and think, "yea, thats the way"?
Do you really think spending and not taxation is the problem? Eg. spending less on education leads to less gullable people, voting for harmful demagogues, so you finally get the "financial conervatives" you want?
A government spending less money does not equate to spending less money on public institutions. It can even mean spending more money on public institutions, assuming less money is spent on other things, such as unproductive wealth transfers.
Do you mean progressive taxation here, or something else?
Assuming the implication is that a well funded state managed education results in a population more resistant to (state?) propaganda; How would this be measured empirically?