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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (272507)	1/3/2010 7:32:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Tradable citizenship is a good start. Getting property rights clear is a good thing. Getting incentives right and results apparent are good things too. That in itself might be sufficient to take care of most things which are currently problems such as voting to spend OPM being a major one, and diffuse costs and concentrated benefits being another leading to wastrel ways. Plain old patriotism is pride in being a citizen but without the actual rights of ownership. It's not a lot better than Stockholm Syndrome. Make people properly free, which includes individual ownership of their assets, and we'd see some interesting developments. Freedom is highly circumscribed in modern democracies; little more than an idle boast. In NZ, everything is banned unless expressly approved beforehand, in triplicate, from 20 different government authorities, who each want to charge for their piece of the action. Mqurice