Democracy Vouchers | Phora Nova
First I’ve heard of this plan (which originated across the water in Seattle, ca. 2017)
I get the pitch: ‘democracy vouchers are just like school vouchers, so “conservatives” should like that and fall for it’ — and it will help fund socialism’ … but in its current Liberal mode, not any real sort of Socialism.
In a sane world, the YOG courts would strike this sort of thing down as unconstitutional civil rights violations under the Occupation’s fave, ‘the equal protections clause for Civil Rights’ — the reason is that property owners, who presumably pay taxes to create public funding for political campaigns at the local level (just like they do for mandatory school indoctrination programmes and institutions), are a class of people and not being equally taxed here. Their money payments are transfered directly to mob politics and will create two feedback loops: 1/ those in power can try to manipulate (‘harvest’) the vouchers, similar to who joint-stock corporations and their boards and managers manipulate ‘proxy voting’ among stockholders. 2/ it creates a possible revolutionary dynamic for the anti-thesis ‘outties’ to do street theatre and stage a revolution.
That’s without even thinking about the proposal for more than 5 minutes.
I think in any event that like ‘public education’, any such scheme would have unintended consequences, and in the medium term become just one more entrenched programme with institutional clients handing out goodies to people who had no part in creating the wealth being distributed. Direct dictatorship by the Proletariat would be preferable — at least factory workers make things.
