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To: goldworldnet who wrote (297266)	3/20/2009 4:05:38 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793972

Here's a plan. Sell some tradable citizenships. Yes, put 10,000 citizenships up for auction to the highest bidders. Note that these would be the private property of the successful bidders giving them full citizenship rights. Congress could put a bit of time into creating this new category of citizen. It would be like preferred shareholders in a company - just another category. Those citizenships would be worth something like $2 million each I guess, but maybe more. That would bring in $20 billion. It would do several things. It would demonstrate the value of a citizenship and the ridiculous idea of handing them out for no charge to any criminal invader who busts in and hangs on long enough for an amnesty. It would give a real-time guide to the value of political decisions. When some politicians pass a law devaluing the USA, the "share price" would drop and voters would tell the politicians to get a real job more attuned to their talents. As those citizens die, if they don't pass the citizenship on to somebody, it would go back into state ownership and could be sold again. It would provide a model for everyone to get ownership of their citizenship so they could claim their personal stake in the value of the place instead of being a mere state serf with no property right. Pretty soon, everyone would want to have ownership of their piece of the action. 10,000 citizenships isn't many out of 300 million in the USA and 6 billion people on Earth. So, without diluting the USA significantly, perhaps 100,000 a year could be sold [depending on the price obtained] for $200 billion a year revenue. I'd buy one! It should be a good investment. Get rights to live in Hawaii any time I like [or San Diego, Florida etc], and then sell it if I want to. Make money into the bargain. If people commit crimes, their citizenship rights could be docked with a lien on the value of it to be forfeited when they die or otherwise wish to sell it. Their prison time could be funded from the value of their citizenship. If the crime is bad enough, the punishment could include citizenship confiscation in entirety and involuntary organ donation too, to be sold to the highest bidders, which should net another $10 million in spare parts value - 2 x kidneys, 1 x pair heart/lungs, 2 x pieces of liver, [all life savers], plus corneas, bones, skin, and all sorts of bits and pieces. Mqurice