According to the Constitution, all those citizens that have reached the age of 18, with a few exceptions typically having to do with a criminal conviction, have been franchised to vote. Additionally, whether of voting age or not, those that have income of a certain amount or even just money in their pocket, are subject to taxation; whether that be a sales tax, a property tax, a license tax, a social security tax, an income tax, a local tax, and so on and so forth. In short, billions upon billions of dollars are collected through taxation agencies throughout this country, and legislators are elected or appointed to allocate and to disburse these tax funds per legislation so enacted and enforced.
The people have an absolute right to know whether or not tax monies so being collected is actually being spent in a responsible and prudent fashion, and of which, their only real reasonable assurance of such is through the full, transparent, and public display of contacts so being put up for bid and subsequently issued for work done, in conjunction with independent reviews of such, quality control, budgets, salaries, property bought and sold, and pretty much everything else that is germane within the expenditures of the public money, so done on behalf of that public. The bottom line is that if the people’s votes are ever going to count for anything, then there has to be a crosscheck placed upon all those avenues of which that money is being spent, and the representatives to the people, need to be held fully accountable for their actions and approvals, so made.
In point of fact, when the people have the vote, but that which they vote upon per the majority, so of, effectively is vacated by the, for instance, circumventing of, or the underhanded and corrupt opaqueness of what is really going on, then the people have been cheated of their vote. Further, when monies so collected from the people, that is not spent in a responsible fashion, of which, for example, the bidding has not been truly competitive, open, and competent; but rather that money has been used instead as a tool to favor some at the expense of others, and to thereby to kick back to the well-placed few, what is not theirs to have, then the people have been cheated on their taxes.
So then, voting and taxation are of immense importance to our influence upon the civilization that we so desire to have, but the average person pretty much feels what is disappointingly obvious, that their vote doesn’t seem to count for much; and as for how their monies so taken from them in the form of taxation, this seems to be spent in a way that they seemingly have absolutely no voice upon such, whatsoever. This thus signifies that voting doesn’t matter much, when the legislators so of, don’t effectively answer to the public, though they do answer to those elite others that put money into their personal pocket; and as for those taxes so being relentlessly collected from the public they are actually commonly being earmarked, utilized and spent in a way and manner that the public sees at best only a distorted view, along with barely getting a glimpse into the deep dark labyrinth of those tax expenditures—though, those that are on the inside, are increasing their wealth and power through their privileged access to such.