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To: TobagoJack who wrote (217766)11/17/2025 1:38:55 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 218646
 
Tradable citizenship as a private property right is much better than the silly golden visa ideas. Few people will want to blow $millions non refundable for an uncertain future. Investing in a going concern that could double or quadruple in value would be seriously attractive. People want a return on investment. That return could include a nice place to live, but somebody in Hong Kong might simply want to buy a tradable citizenship in case they need it, never move to NZ, and they or their heirs could sell it for a big profit years later. Or loss if the place goes bad. It would be an instant bolt hole if Hong Kong goes tits up.

Meanwhile people would vote for politicians who increase the value of citizenship rather than damaging it as is currently happening.

Existing citizens could sell their share of the country at market price and shoot through to somewhere else. For example they might prefer to live in Thailand with constant heat and lower living costs. Or they might simply pass their citizenship to descendants.

The age-old top-down ownership of countries has passed its use-by date. Citizens as state owned serfs should be rejected. Citizens should own the state rather than the reverse. Chimpanzees and North Korea run in alpha male totalitarian territorial kleptocratic murderous dominance hierarchies. Democracies are better but still much the same with incentive to take while the taking is good.

NZ could sell 20,000 per year at about US$5 million without overcrowding or significant dilution. $100 billion per year would mean taxes could be cut to nothing; especially if road toll congestion charges provided loose change. Roads are not priced correctly at free. If citizens vote sensibly, NZ would soon be the richest and best country in the world. A no-tax very nice country is super attractive for investment. There would probably be demand for 100,000 newly issued citizenships at US$5 million per year. $500 billion is serious money. 30 years x 100,000 new people would still be only 3 million new people. They would be very easily absorbed as NZ is spacious unlike Hong Kong, Singapore.

Children would have to inherit citizenships from ancestors. A woman couldn't just breed like a rabbit and dilute other people. Tourists and other non citizens could live in NZ but they wouldn't receive dividends which would be paid to citizens with tradable citizenship.

Wonderful. Civilized. Incentives to goodness.

Mqurice
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