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Originally Posted by zuluking
Broken record here. The fact that we can't figure out better ways to do things meaning we have to either raise taxes or spend resource revenue to maintain status quo is rather disappointing.
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Welcome to policy making. This may not be self-evident but it's not a field prone to breakthroughs. Policy making is by definition incremental. There are no "Aha!" moments where we can magically provide all of the services that everyone thinks they are entitled to without traditional means of revenue raising. The fundamental dynamics largely remain unchanged. Providing services is expensive, outsourcing them to the private realm is also expensive, paying for them is done by collecting more taxes or achieving high levels of growth. That's about it.
Nobody is going to come along and say, "here's a brand new model that checks off all the boxes." Why? Because the model isn't necessarily the problem. The problem is that we all demand things we don't want to pay for and instead of holding ourselves accountable we hold governments accountable.