I've often suggested a form of "humble-bundle"-like funding model for government functions. An application of a bit of free-market capitalism to an otherwise involuntary system. So if you wished to punish or scale-back or defund the police because they were preventing protesting using means that are too-violent for your liking, then you can simply reduce the funding that you allocate to policing in the next cycle. You vote with your tax money.
Sure, this raises issues in that it disproportionately lets people that pay more tax have a larger say in issues. But I'm sure you could allocate tax-funding in terms of vote-dollars. So (TOTAL_TAX_COLLECTED / POPULATION_COUNT = YOUR_ALLOCATABLE_FUNDING). Also, we would probably have to have a solid discussion regarding the granularity of the system. Heck, employ some sort of hierarchical ideas, too. This is, after all, 2017 so why not use more algorithmic/tech-based solutions to an institution that is still stuck in archaic times.
Oddly, I suggest this as a Libertarian/anarcho-capitalist. Because I think it could potentially strike a good balance between the state's arguable necessary functions, the involuntary nature of taxation and the problems with democratic representation.
Sure, this raises issues in that it disproportionately lets people that pay more tax have a larger say in issues. But I'm sure you could allocate tax-funding in terms of vote-dollars. So (TOTAL_TAX_COLLECTED / POPULATION_COUNT = YOUR_ALLOCATABLE_FUNDING). Also, we would probably have to have a solid discussion regarding the granularity of the system. Heck, employ some sort of hierarchical ideas, too. This is, after all, 2017 so why not use more algorithmic/tech-based solutions to an institution that is still stuck in archaic times.
Oddly, I suggest this as a Libertarian/anarcho-capitalist. Because I think it could potentially strike a good balance between the state's arguable necessary functions, the involuntary nature of taxation and the problems with democratic representation.