Most bonds or tax increases I vote on say what they are for, and the money has to be spent that way. I can’t decide the specifics, but I can vote yes or no on road maintenance, or school funding, or whatever.
I’m quite cynical about it. No matter what is short money, the funding is always for education or fire fighting. It seems more likely they always shuffle around the budget so the shortfall always end up where we’ll vote for it
Most people here won’t even know what you mean when you say “bonds” in this context.
You vote for that by choosing the political team with the spending policy that best represents you. But it’s a bundle and not spending decisions a la carte.
You’re asking for direct democracy.
I wouldn’t want to have to take time to review budget proposals for my municipality, province, and country every day after I get off work. We have people for that.
It’s expensive to have elections.
You can also not choose where your money goes to. If I choose all my money goes to schools, am I still allowed to use the road? How about choosing everything except street lights and promising to not go out after sunset?
Pick the politician that says they will fight for the proirities you prefer the most. They may not get their way but there are other people in the (country/region/town) with other preferences than you and you still get to use the roads, schools, streetlamps and whatnot.
Now you lemmies with the roads and stuff reminds me of contract theory from the 5th grade.
