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Board Politics & Society
Merits 4 from 1 user
Re: Demands of Gilet Jaunes (Yellow Vests)
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F2b
on 18/12/2018, 18:30:37 UTC
⭐ Merited by Flying Hellfish (4)
Well... you're right mates, but we must admit that not everything on that list is doable.
You know there's already a pretty huge budget deficit (like almost every country (thanks FIATs ! would it happen if they all used Bitcoin ?)). Some points of the list are realisable without spending much money, but some others would be really expensive, and if it costs money on a side, you need to take some money on the other side (with taxes). (PS : I'm pretty clumsy explaining this, just read the previous post, it's better Grin (Edit : and the post after this one too))
Some people thinks that we should have more taxes and more help for people needing it. Some others thinks the opposite : reduce taxes but give less to the people in need. Both points of views have good arguments, but we will probably never be able to make these people reach agreement, unfortunately.

However, if we put aside the money-related revendications, then there are some propositions that are really, really interesting.

Last thing, I like pretty much criticizing the government and its decisions, but I don't think we would do the job better than them. (I mean, on some points we would, but in average we wouldn't.) If we want to have a democracy really working, we have to build a brand new system from zero, and involve everyone in it. But even with this, there would still be alot of problems, I'm pretty conviced of that.