If you started your own country, what kind of laws and benefits would you have?

Thoughts?


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Interested to hear some tax laws. What about a system of taxes only based on consumption? If it is a beachy place, tourism and outsiders paying taxes on consumption could drive GDP.

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Large federal grants and scholarship funding for trade schools. The U.S. has a shortage for jobs that you can learn through a trade and make great money. E.g. plumbing, electrician, HVAC repair, and many more

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I'd argue universal suffrage is the single biggest contributor to the rot of western democracy today. 

It's rational for people to vote for the candidate who promises them the most. Especially if you're low income, it's rational for you to prioritise your short term needs (higher pensions, social housing, unemployment payments) over some academic argument over whether the system is fiscally sustainable, or what these policies will do for long term productivity etc. Such a system also encourages knee-jerk reactions to situations that resonate with the public (i.e. "we just suffered a terrorist attack, lets go fuck up some country on the other side of the world", or "inflation is high, lets investigate the supermarkets for price gouging" etc). Therefore I think the populism we face all over the west today is the natural outcome of universal suffrage. 

Ideally we'd have a technocratic government that was free to make unpopular decisions. I'm not against autocracy as a principle: countries like Spain, Chile, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Korea all went from third world to first world pretty quickly under autocratic governments led by smart people. But it's very hard to pull off and there are far more failed autocracies than successful ones. 

I'd be interested in a system of limited suffrage, with say the vote limited based on wealth/income. Not because rich people are automatically smarter than poor: I know plenty of people with money who are dumb as bricks, and some of the most thoughtful people I've met haven't had much to their name at all. But in general, an electorate of business owners, doctors, lawyers, bankers etc would be more informed and also in a position to think long term. You could also argue it's a more moral system given these are the people who pay the bulk of taxes so they should have the biggest say in how it's spent. 

Controversial yes, but it makes sense to me. 

 

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