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Originally Posted by darklord700
I would like to see more plebiscites in the future. I don't trust any corrupted politician from any party to look after my welfare. For big ticket issues, like sales tax, education,
0.05 law, I would like to vote on it.
It wasn't possible in the past but with the advent of internet, I don't see what we couldn't do more plebiscites now.
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The problem is that the masses are generally not very educated on issues and vote with their guts not having a firm comprehension. As was stated by Vlad look at California and their propositions with anything and everything, you don't even need to leave Canada to see how awful plebiscites are look West and look what they did to a much better tax in BC in the HST, they had the masses without any economics background voting on the tax. I don't trust my barber to perform my surgery.
And then you are not even factoring in the increased costs associated with this type of system, look as to how much a provincial election costs, now do that a couple of times a year... it would be hard to pay for that because no one is going to vote for themselves to be taxed.