Wrote a thing. Come check it out and tell me what you think and where you think I’m wrong—or right. “If the state can fund coercive capacity without visible cost, it will expand it. If cost is visible, it must justify it. […] How can you expect a polity to tell the truth about its governance if it cannot tell the truth about its finances?”

Sound Money could Mean Better and More Trusted Law Enforcement

Sound money principles in a democracy can restrain funding and appropriations to intentional, explicit, and transparent expansions and uses of law ...

Just got done with Dave Walker’s “America in 2040: Still a Superpower?” A really good and authoritative read on America’s fiscal future, oversight challenges, and an inside perspective on reform efforts. Below is a link to the author’s webpage for the book. https://americain2040.com/ A few takeaways: - Durably reforming and improving fiscal policy (and governance, generally) requires careful needle-threading and broad-based popular support built on common understanding in good faith; - When presented with the actual problem sets (including in fiscal terms), Americans are not only willing, but eager to undertake hardship to achieve sound governance and a better future; and - The existing ‘tools’ to course correct from within the oversight, Congressional, and civil service have become tangled up in political quagmire such that solving through small d democratic or small r republican methods individually seems unlikely—a combined approach seems necessary.

Curious what the Nostr community thinks: What is one principle or value you think America promises that it doesn’t fulfill (or fulfill well), and why? What’s important about that to you? How do you think we can or should recover that?

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