I was thinking about an approval-style voting system that could end with a large number of ties, and ran into the problem of how to break ties in a provably-fair way that doesn’t depend on candidates trusting each other and won’t make voters’ eyes glaze over.
I think I found a solution which is provably-fair, but it might still cross over into eye-glazing territory. I don’t know if this is practical (or novel), but I’m writing it up in case anyone else finds it interesting.
There’s a semi-common meme on Twitter where people share their most X opinion, where X is a group the poster doesn’t identify with; or sometimes my least X opinion, where X is a group they do identify with. In that spirit, my least libertarian opinion is that exclusivity deals with sufficiently entrenched companies* are bad and should be illegal.
Elizabeth Warren recently proposed a wealth tax as part of her plan to partially pay for single-payer healthcare. I think this is significantly worse than other methods of raising the same amount of revenue from the same group of people, so this article describes the problems with wealth taxes plus an alternative if we want to raise tax rates on the rich (spoiler: just raise the income tax rate).
