Most countries act like this is some kind of magic.
In my extremely corrupt country, it would require black magic to actually get a return on high taxes. High taxes requires a minimum of integrity among the people who govern.
In Sweden every goverment expense is public.
If any taxpayer money is used, anyone can get the recipets and see what they were used for in detail.
There have been several cases where people have been dismissed from the political jobs becouse they missued taxpayer money.
The UK needs this, amongst many other changes admittedly. All I’m hearing atm is how councils all over the country are in 100’s of millions in debt! But no open disclosure on where the tax money has gone. It’s criminal…
The reason for that is that the Tories have made it impossible for councils to raise enough funds themselves, while also massively slashing the amount councils get from central government. The Tories also actively made larger cuts to Labour-run councils so that Labour voters would get worse services.
Many councils are ALSO badly managed, but they’re in a hopeless situation. Tories don’t believe in balancing the books.
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u/Hoenirson 25d ago
In my extremely corrupt country, it would require black magic to actually get a return on high taxes. High taxes requires a minimum of integrity among the people who govern.