(June 24, 2016 at 11:02 am)Tiberius Wrote: there are issues which the public are uninformed on, and should not be able to touch with a barge pole. If we left trade negotiations up to public vote, the markets would likely all collapse. If we allowed people to vote on specific taxes, we'd end up in a tax-free society and millions would die. Some things are good for the country, and good for society, but extremely unpopular.
Exactly. What's next? Put decisions concerning air traffic control and surgery up to the general public for a vote? They'd probably be no less inept on those topics than they would be regarding trade and economics.