Actually, GeronL, you're idea is ...
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Unfortunately, given the current system (incumbent protectionism), it may even get ...
Posted on 12/09/2003 6:11:26 PM PST by GeronL
Actually, GeronL, you're idea is ...
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Unfortunately, given the current system (incumbent protectionism), it may even get ...
I've got an even better idea. Let's just not elect liberals and make them all live in California. :)
No you're not. I'm the genius. I know because I have been testing my new improved form of government on friends and acquaintances for years and it freaks them out.
Every time. Shoot, some even stop talking to me and cross the street to avoid contact.
It is devilishly simpler too. To wit: nothing changes except for the UCTC (Ultimate Citizenship Trump Card). It is the result of the new method of voting. Anyone can vote at any time. Taxes can be raised without limit. The "progressives" can pass minimum wage laws of $50 an hour it wouldn't matter; they can pass "progressive" tax rates of 200%. Ditto.
The secret is the (SLUPD) (Spending List Under Penalty of Death). Here is where it gets interesting.
There is an official list of items that tax revenue can be spent on. It can be 10 items or 1000, doesn't matter. What does matter is this: Each individual taxpayer has the absolute right to choose which items on that list his taxes may be spent on. He can choose all of it to go to defense spending or to house indigent orphaned Spotted Owls. Or he can choose 10 items to support, or all 1000.
There is no limit to the amount of taxation, that makes the liberals happy.
There is no obligation to spend on items that violate individual conscience or common sense. That makes the conservatives happy.
What's that you say? What happens if, say, highways get 5 times the funding they need? Or the EPA gets 0.0001% of what "it" needs? Tough noogies.
It's a Democracy Baby!
Judges drift into megalomania? Ha. Let's see how long they are willing to work for free. Or for just what the liberals are willing to pay.
Not enough money for schools cranking out felons 24/7? So sad. Guess they'll just have to close.
Not enough open space? Let's see how much is available to buy it at market price and the lost taxes in perpetuity (a scam never really examined).
Must items on my list: four categories of welfare. 1) Orphaned children and indigent elderly. 2)The seriously ill and infirm. 3) Bums and druggies. 4) Able-bodied "others".
I've been wanting to develop this idea for years.
I'll be back!
Thats Uber perfect! and of course... liberals would never go for it.
Yours can be called Subscription Government??
Probably not. But we can dream!
Sorry to break it to you, but this is not a very good idea.
This idea is based on the fact that Conservatives don’t want to pay taxes for the things that Liberals pay taxes for. So what happens when some Conservatives don’t want to pay taxes for what other Conservatives want to pay taxes for? The same thing will happen and Conservatives will be divided into 2 more groups. This will keep going on and on until you have hundreds of groups with their own unique viewpoints.
You can’t generalize people into groups like Republican and Democrat. Each individual has their own specific needs and their own specific views, so no two Republicans or Democrats are the same. This means the best type of government is either an anarchy or a libertarian, in which people have the absolute freedom to make their own decisions and pay only for the things that they need.
I know that. I lean toward libertarian myself on many things, economics. this was just to show that liberals always want things paid for by other people. Sure some “Republicans” do too.
also see an abortive blog http://unitedcitizen.blogspot.com not that I gave up totally on it
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