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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (9222)	1/19/2010 3:29:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 12235

Art, the defining aspect of a country is the border. It's quite reasonable to protect the country by acting at the border by for example charging tariffs on goods produced elsewhere. For example, if we assume that CO2 emissions are actually a problem, which they aren't, they are a good thing in the quantities being produced, then it would be reasonable to charge a carbon tax on carbon entering the country and on goods produced in a CO2-emitting country like China. Taxes on companies producing zero CO2 emissions transport, heating and electricity could be cut to encourage no CO2. The idea that any tariff is a bad tariff is false. It's far more sensible to cut taxes inside a country and raise them on things coming across the border, which is also a far easier place to control because it needs control anyway for it to be defined. What's really needed is tradable citizenships to define property rights even further. People would individually own their citizenship which would be their property not the state's. At present, people are the property of the state whereas the state should be the property of the people. It's an idea which people seem to have trouble grasping. There is fine talk in some countries of the state being the property of the people, but it's mere cant. In all instances, people are serfs of the state with their very bodies being the property of the state, let alone their other assets. The best that people can do is leave if they don't like it, assuming they can find some other country willing to take possession and ownership of them - like slaves being sold. Mqurice

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