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To: Snowshoe who wrote (26657)	12/18/2007 4:15:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217901

Yes, that would be excellent. < Do you really want hedge funds doing butterfly straddles on the right to live in kiwiland? > Then, people could spend their citizenship while still enjoying the rights of citizenship. When they die, they would have been fully paid out instead of dying leaving houses, investments, and an unused citizenship after a lifetime of contributing to it. Having a big financial industry surrounding citizenships would make the value of political and electoral decisions very evident indeed and quite quickly. That would provide feedback loops for citizens to make informed choices. Mqurice PS: I have no idea what a butterfly straddle is, but assuming it's a legal thing, then if it helps people get their assets timed to match their lives, then fine. I have no objection to immigrants coming to live in NZ in droves. I just want them to do as they do when they stay in a hotel or go shopping, which is pay their way and BUY the things they want instead of free-loading. I don't object to them free-loading either - they can only do it if the dopey citizens of the place they go to provide the goodies free of charge. There's no reason they shouldn't accept. We accepted a Canadian citizenship for our son [nice donation of $2 million in value to our family for almost no cost - we got high pay while we were there and paid only a couple of years of taxes]. We were actually paid cash in quite good lumps [about $1000 a month] while living in Belgium and paid very well by BP Oil International for the mere fact of having a bunch of children. They insisted we were due it even when I went and explained that we were well-off, worked for an international company, were foreigners etc. They said yes, yes, yes, but you still get that money. Okay, thanks, said I. [Or, more precisely, my wife who was the recipient of the money as it goes to the mother].