Theses

• 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.

Solution

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.