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Protect rich people at all costs

Many things. For example, every single president during my lifetime has been almost universally liked by everyone in the country - kind of like a lifetime of Obamas.

A more recent example of something they do well is when I started my business. I received nearly 10 hours of one-on-one personal guidance on how to do it, completely free. They’re also paying me around 600 euros a month for a year to help me get started.

Jesus, Lemmy, this should be a positive thread not just an opportunity to complain

Outsource.

Corruption

Incarcerate citizens.

Australia is super good at dryland cropping, growing wheat where there's fuck all water.

Also, digging up red soil and flogging it to China at a rate that you can almost feel the earth's axis shifting.

The ADA.

Syrup. Affable. Eh?

Parks and interstate freeways

Destroying public services.

Steal, corrupt, kill, erase, and destroy. Thats about all the country im ashamed to be a citizen of does

Abandoning public services and privatizing them :(

Welfare for giant corporations

They handled the pandemic well with regards to small businesses

50% of your normal monthly income, free, no questions asked. That was great lol, sat on my arse for six months

Also, 1% of my taxes get put into a training fund that I can spend on any kind of training I want. Doesn't have to be relevant to my business at all

Fucking the working class.

Kill (or help kill) people who are on average more poor and brown than we are.

The country: promise the opportunity of a better life

The govt: Be corrupt

Serve the military Political kidnaps and assassinations their own citizens and journalists

Kill

Bomb oppressed peoples.

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/celebrating-two-years-of-empowering-public-digital-infrastructure

My county government office is a well oiled machine. Paying for taxes like car tags and property is a no-brainer, in person or online. Last time I got a new driver's license I was in and out, 10 minutes flat, including the walk to and from my truck. Prices for all of the above are plenty fair.

Superannuation

Minimum 10% compulsory

Many things, but not all of them good. Still, some are good.

Naval aviation.

Military stuff

Corruption, and running enterprises into the ground with. Our countries official power utility, our postal service, our railways, our police as examples. You know , the stuff we kind of need as citizens. Edit: Our taxation is world class though.

Preferential voting. Compulsory voting.

Maintain global dominance by attracting and keeping STEM workers

Killing brown people. Incredibly skilled at it.

Gun violence. Police murder. Cover-ups.

Attracting tourists so that the money can be spent on building stadiums for the World Cup, meanwhile out immigrants keep destroying cities every time my country gets involved in a non-friendly match.

And that country is not in Europe.

Support Israel.

Ha, try guessing.

To find new ways to obstruct the lives of the everyday citizens, while letting both local and international monetary elites to do what they want.

Taxes. They have an incredible talent to raise new taxes.

And, more seriously, like already mentioned in another comment: destroying public services. which is a real sad thing to see happening, if you ask me.

National Parks. Make fun of the US as much as you want, I have travelled to a lot of other countries and have always tried to find something on par with Americas National Parks, and really only Iceland comes close.

Historically we have had good education and OK healthcare. The trend is downward.

The military has been really good with purchasing used but good equipment for cheap.

The foreign policy has been consistent, and even opponents to military alliance pushed for NATO when Pootin screwed the pooch.

Oppress mosquitos

Pulling shit out of the ground and inflating a housing bubble.