Mark V Anderson
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I have published an e-book to Amazon.com called Simplify Government! I would like to talk about these ideas whether or not you read my book, but I do hope that some of you are intrigued enough to read it. It costs only $5 and is short – the first Word doc I uploaded to Amazon was only 82 pages. So even if you find it dry the pain will be short.
If you don’t have a Kindle app on your computer, the app can be downloaded from Amazon for free.
https://www.amazon.com/Simplify-Gov...98&sr=1-1&keywords=simplify+government#navbar
The thesis of my book is that simplification is greatly needed to increase government effectiveness and for voters to hold politicians accountable. Our government can barely be called a democracy when voters can only comprehend a tiny portion of the government. And even politicians and government officials only understand a small part of the immense government monster.
The principles of simplification are:
1) Each jurisdiction should not overlap the functions of the other jurisdictions.
2) Government should be limited to only those functions that make sense for them to do.
3) Government officials must tell constituents that they cannot solve all their problems.
In addition, every government activity must be to either supply public goods or to re-distribute income, or should be rejected. No activity should be a combination of supplying public goods and redistribution. Combining those activities greatly complicates the process and lowers government effectiveness and voter accountability.
The rest of the book details what these principles mean when it comes to actual policy. I also include one chapter explaining in detail how simplifying our incredibly complicated welfare system could easily pull every person out of poverty with no change in funding. Plus I have one chapter explaining the why’s and how’s of simplifying our terrible tax system.
If you don’t have a Kindle app on your computer, the app can be downloaded from Amazon for free.
https://www.amazon.com/Simplify-Gov...98&sr=1-1&keywords=simplify+government#navbar
The thesis of my book is that simplification is greatly needed to increase government effectiveness and for voters to hold politicians accountable. Our government can barely be called a democracy when voters can only comprehend a tiny portion of the government. And even politicians and government officials only understand a small part of the immense government monster.
The principles of simplification are:
1) Each jurisdiction should not overlap the functions of the other jurisdictions.
2) Government should be limited to only those functions that make sense for them to do.
3) Government officials must tell constituents that they cannot solve all their problems.
In addition, every government activity must be to either supply public goods or to re-distribute income, or should be rejected. No activity should be a combination of supplying public goods and redistribution. Combining those activities greatly complicates the process and lowers government effectiveness and voter accountability.
The rest of the book details what these principles mean when it comes to actual policy. I also include one chapter explaining in detail how simplifying our incredibly complicated welfare system could easily pull every person out of poverty with no change in funding. Plus I have one chapter explaining the why’s and how’s of simplifying our terrible tax system.