Gyroscopic Investing

Xan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 8:56 am Moving to Washington is an anachronism. 30,000 Congressmen can remain where they live. They just need to vote (electronically) the way their neighbors want them to.

Good point. With that many, there really wouldn't be a need to develop personal relationships with other congress people.

Ok, now that we're discussing improvements to the current system, let me tell you my real plan.

Any citizen can represent himself in electronic voting, with each citizen having voting power proportional to the taxes he pays in the jurisdiction in question; e.g., for federal matters, his vote is equal to his federal tax bill for the past year.

Since most people would prefer not to have to represent themselves, they could give revocable proxies to anyone they chose.

Anyone with such proxies has his vote multiplied by the number of proxies he holds.

Any citizen can revoke his current proxy and transfer it to another representative at any time, or represent himself if he can't find anyone to whom he wants to give his proxy.

Now you're talking REAL representative government.