Can we have an honest dialogue about government? Anarchists and Communists need not apply to talk because you refuse to acknowledge that the simple fact that I and many disagree with you makes your ideology impossible to implement without extreme violence.
But let’s be real here, government isn’t a charity. It is in fact the original corporation. If it isn’t profitable, it fails and is replaced by a different one. As a society, the west has lost the plot by pretending like it is a charity and making them unprofitable and implementing tyrannical taxes for funding under bullshit morality arguments. We should want our government acting more like a corporation.
The ideal government would be one that is highly focused on its purpose. These have traditionally been services falling under the classification of security, utilities, sanitation, etc. So in an ideal world, a government would do those things and only charge a service fee type tax that are constitutionally rate locked in as a percentage.
This would best be described as a local government that focuses on its purpose of police, fire, sanitation, transportation, etc. and creating a very positive business environment. The trick to making this serve the people, eliminate all taxes besides sales tax. Either the government is growing the cities economy with their policies and tax base to raise yearly income or they are losing money. The city government gets to keep and spend that money they generate however they like, but they are a business and the citizens are shareholders who get a vote on corporate leadership. Also, eliminate elections every so many years, make it a minimum term with a requirement of so many citizen signatures to call a new election. We need longer term planning and h tho e elimination of the election cycle money parasite.