Direct democracy through efficient ring-fenced taxes | Civic participation 4.0

• The strongest right a parliament has is budget law - for that taxes are compulsory.
• There is a growing demand for civic participation.
• There is dolefulness with politics, political processes and the political personell.
• Plebiscites are a complex instrument.
• Bundling and balance of interests by political parties and the parliament are necessary and have to be kept - amongst others due to efficiency aspects.

digitaletat - as a ring-fenced tax - is an efficient instrument to achieve direct democracy:

• Every citizen (natural person) is allowed to distribute 2% of his or her overall yearly tax payments to a pre-defined set of buckets (those being on a high level of abstraction).
• This will be only practical by utilizing modern and secure information technology.
• It will be critical, that those buckets are sufficiently abstract and not too many - and that they stay like that over time.
• Examples of possible structures of those buckets (increasing complexity):
  • The n governmental departments - citizens will directly influence the budget of ministries.
  • A set of topics discussed by parliament.
  • A set of longterm projects discussed by parliament.
  • A set of community driven topics and projects.

digitaletat makes a 'smooth' but yet striking form of direct demoracy possible - without limiting governmental capacity to act (in edge case).

digitaletat is Civic participation 4.0.

digitaletat is not comparable to more local or municipal approaches (e.g. Orcamento participativo (Wikipedia)), as it explicitely targets 'big' topics on national or even supranationel level.

If you like this project feel free to support via xmr, btg, btc or eth here: http://digitaletat.de/#krypto

• http://digitaletat.de
• Discuss on github wiki: (https://github.com/retevastum/digitaletat/wiki)
• Discuss on slack: (https://retevastum.slack.com)