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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

PoTD

Devin on Being King. As usual, thought provoking, and well thought.
Most notably to my sights, I see

(a) a negative income tax.
(b) partial direct democracy (for passing regulations)
(c) reduced power to administrative agencies.

My response...
  1. Given that effectively all the systems Devin proposes are in use somewhere...they would almost certainly work, and almost certainly better than (a) most current places, and (b) anything actually new.
  2. It's an amazingly balanced mix of my 3 countervailing positions (progressive -- weak-protecting, libertarian -- pro-liberty, conservative -- don't break stuff).
  3. Even so, I would personally prefer a place with substantially less central power.
  4. It's much closer to happy-for-me than I'd expect
  5. BRAVO!

1 comment:

rightsaidfred said...

Interesting. A key is limiting the franchise to vote. Making this stick gives the thing a chance. Alas, in today's climate, activists have learned to agitate for universal suffrage, and we get 51% voting to loot the other 49% iterated to the nth degree, and thus the current road to a vast wasteland.