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To: arun gera who wrote (64366)	5/28/2005 12:17:20 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Arun, there's a difference between free movement of people and free movement of money. New Zealand would be inundated with umpty millions seeking welfare benefits many times their usual annual incomes. Even if there were no welfare benefits, public property is so attractive that millions would want to enjoy the freebies. Property is owned by people. Unfortunately, in NZ property is collectively owned by the state and there's no relationship between those who paid for it and those who use it. I built canals, roads, buildings and a more and I didn't do it so bludgers can move in and take over. I would be very happy for said "free migration" if ownership was vested in me personally by way of a tradeable citizenship and new citizenships were sold by auction to qualifying non-criminals at, say, 10,000 per year. You can surely understand that if there's a lolly scramble of free property, the line would be a billion people long. There's some original thinking for you. If they want to come to NZ, let them buy the assets at auction, acquiring a tradeable citizenship. Those here paid for those assets and the found assets, such as clean air off Antarctica, nice beaches and few nasty pests such as snakes, are owned by those here, just as Saudi Arabians own their found wealth = umpty$billions of oil and India owns their nice climate and tsunami-resistant Bangalore plateau. The USA hasn't been so socialist, so they would have less problem with open borders, but they would have big problems if it was wide-open. The USA could do the same as I suggest for NZ and create tradable citizenships, sold at auction. Since a NZ citizenship is worth something like US$1 million, 10,000 sold a year would be worth $10 billion a year, which would pay for a LOT of infrastructure development and I think would be worth doing. Except that until the idiotic electorate understood that the politicians at present are pouring their hard-earned taxes down the gurgler, it wouldn't be much use just handing over another $10 billion a year to NZ politicians. I think once citizens could watch their citizenship ticker symbol going up and down with the daily political machinations, the electoral process would change and politicians would not be so cavalier in their decisions, pork-barrelling their mates. If the government announced free entry to another 10,000 refugees onto the welfare rolls, the declining ticker symbol would make them think twice. The next election would see them turfed out. I hereby predict the world will go to tradable citizenship. It's so absurd that in the 21st century we are all treated as state serfs with no property rights and everyone around the world goes along with it. Mqurice