SOCIOLOGY
Response to Post #1 Your post illustrates one of the most complex problems in administrating government efficiently: namely, tailoring academic concepts and fiscal policies to the unique and multidimensional elements of specific communities. Your idea of incorporating local business people into community fiscal governance is attractive in principle, but it could also present various potential barriers such as the need to distinguish local business people with high-level subject-matter comprehension from those with comparatively lower levels of knowledge and understanding. Even among fiscally sophisticated local business people, there might also be inevitable conflicts of interest among them that would have to be mediated fairly and without adding delays instead of expediting the process of local policy-making and fiscal planning.
Response to Post #2
In theory, your suggestion that it is important to restrict government office and financial planning to individuals without self-interests and political motives represents a fundamentally important ideal. However, it may be somewhat unrealistic because the individuals who typically choose...
This is true at every level of government from local PTA associations to national-level politics. Unfortunately, it seems that relatively few people who devote their efforts and time to government do so for purely altruistic reasons and I think we have to accept that as a given.
Response to Post #3
I think your post perfectly illustrates one of the classic paradoxes of complex societies and the government and legislative processes upon which they rely. Specifically, the more complex society and its institutions and legislation becomes, the more cumbersome it becomes to administrate functions that are, in principle, not necessarily very complicated. When it comes to matters of modern municipal contracts and government administration, there are so many areas and sub-areas involved in decision-making that the fundamental duty of due diligence makes it very hard to start excluding individuals and functions in the interest of streamlining processes.
Response to Post #4 What comes to mind when people…
