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Know-it-all tax

Solve someone's problem or pay
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Canvassers always have clipboards stuffed with shiny material. Why not put such paperwork to better use?

Humans-on-the-street are asked to solve a real person's or group issue. In some cases the question is an open-ended question. In other cases it's a True/False question about an actual decisions that someone made and whether or not it had disastrous consequences. Answer the T/F question wrong and you are consequently obliged to make a donation for that suffering person's cause.

4and20, May 25 2016

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       Sounds like regular insurance.
zen_tom, May 25 2016
  

       "There is safety in numbers" said the blackbirds...
4whom, May 25 2016
  

       Dumb people have a hard enough time making ends meet. A real know-it-all tax should collect from the people who get the question right. Plus they will be feeling smug and self-satisfied, and so more likely to feel that they can spare some $.
bungston, May 25 2016
  

       We are sufficiently taxed by the Cassandra syndrome, thank you
theircompetitor, May 25 2016
  
      
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