ACF, it really is a bizarre policy. Citizenships should be traded commodities, with governments issuing a certain number each year, just as happens with money.
An immigrant to New Zealand would check the auction web site, make their bid for a citizenship for delivery say February 2005, or 10 April 2004, pay the seller, or the government if it's a new citizenship being issued, and bingo, no red tape, no immigration paperwork points bribery and corruption bureaucratic waste of everyone's time.
No giving away the country which has been built on the backs of a century of effort by the citizens' ancestors. I worked hard to build power supplies, water supplies, roads, bridges, stormwater and stuff [directly] as well as funding construction of a lot more indirectly through taxation. As well as which the natural value of the scenery, clean air, oceans, minerals and so on are owned by the citizens and it's absurd to just give it away to some newbie who has contributed NOTHING and will all too often be of negative value.
<The INS processes applications for permanent residence and for naturalization in such a way as to deter all but the most determined applicants. >
ACF, that is a bizarre way to run a railroad.
It shouldn't be a privilege to immigrate, it should be a profitable sale for the existing citizens to sell the right to live there.
Looking at a bit of detail, suppose Einstein wants to immigrate, but has no money, some rich dude could buy the citizenship and contract to turn it over to him when the payments have been made. Voters might tell the government to give a certain number of citizenships to special people who have no money but lots of talent, perhaps with strings attached.
BP Oil for example might need to have an oil reservoir engineer move in to do some high tech stuff. They'd buy a citizenship, nominate the person to whom it applies, move the person in, who would do the work and get paid, maybe accepting the citizenship from BP as part of their salary.
When the reservoir is finished, the engineer would move back home and BP would sell the citizenship on the open market. They would make a profit on the citizenship because by developing the reservoir, they'd improve the country in which the engineer was working.
People would vote for sensible government. When the government announces some dumb idea and the citizenship price plummets, the voters would soon be telling them that such policies are NOT a good idea. People would have a direct interest in the country doing well. Bludgers would be informed that it is time to get a job.
The existing bizarre system where we are serfs of the state, mere chattels, barely upgraded from the feudal times of olde, is ridiculous. It suits state bureaucrats who get to run red tape by the mile and frustrate swarms of people and disrupt economic activity and happiness. It doesn't suit normal humans who yearn to breathe free.
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