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To: Lane3 who wrote (9083)	12/16/2010 1:38:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 10087

Hi Lane, <"we can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy but we can t have both" --Brandeis > is Simpleton linguistic logic. <Can anyone explain this to me?> It's sounds sort of right in an on the one hand this or the other hand that way. I'd go further and say people can vote the money they provide to government but can't vote opm. "I vote that the government takes your money and gives it to me" is a fundamental flaw of democracy. The slogan should be changed to "No representation without taxation - every dollar gets a vote". Even if people could only vote the money they put in, that would still be democracy if 90% of people couldn't vote on opm. With referenda on non-spending laws, such as "Is it unlawful to beat children and women with whips?" everyone could vote. With Tradable Citizenship, there would be great incentive to vote to make things better. At present, the tragedy of the commons electoral systems is "I'd better vote to get my piece of the action before it's all over and the country is bankrupt". Mqurice ... thanks for referring me here one-less

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