Catering Democracy

https://www.reddit.com/r/SeriousConversation/comments/1h4t1id/catering_democracy/

created by adaptivesphincter on 02/12/2024 at 11:39 UTC

0 upvotes, 3 top-level comments (showing 3)

After this years you know what thingamajing in which people decide who lead them, i have wondered whether we can have a more catering democracy?

Let me clarify. There are 3 friends and 2 friends out of them want free healthcare and 1 friend out of them doesn't for whatever ideological reason. All 3 of them have their own voter ids. This democratic system that I have been thinking about makes a healthcare system for 2 friends (their taxes are raised and they pay for it) and not for other 1 friend (who doesn't pay anything extra AND also is not eligible for free healthcare).

Beauraucratic Nightmare aside why can't we have that version of democracy?

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Comment by SpruceDickspring at 02/12/2024 at 12:53 UTC

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A social healthcare system relies on taxes generated by the highest percentile of earners. So in the UK for example: *"Around 60 per cent of income tax revenue comes from the top 10 per cent of earners, and 30 per cent from the top 1 per cent".*

If you allow the very richest to act in their own best financial interest and opt out of a service they'll likely never use themselves, the you're left with increasing taxes on lower income earners who will never realistically be able to generate enough revenue to support a free healthcare system.

Comment by dailydrink at 02/12/2024 at 12:15 UTC

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Good question but unfortunately Thats not democratic. Read about majority rules in democratic societies. Also our democracy is no longer true to form in the same way the liberals of 1960's are not the same as the liberals of today (politically). Not to mention the center has shifted and we use online services to manipulate voters.