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To: elmatador who wrote (79696)	9/16/2011 10:17:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218879

Seems the price of a USA citizenship might not be very high if that ugly tax picture you paint isn't changed. A pyramid scheme is something different ElM. Perhaps you are confusing it with a Ponzi scheme. Neither are like TC. As I explained, if 10,000 a year were sold for 100 years, that would increase NZ's population by only 1 million. That's nothing. In case you don't know, of the 4 million now alive, only 40,000 will be alive in 100 years, so the population might drop to 1,040,000 assuming all those new citizens actually live there and assuming the remaining 40,000 stay there too. In pyramid schemes, the money making depends on a constant stream of new suckers. In TC sales, it doesn't matter if there are no new buyers at all. That just means no new citizens. No problem. If the price goes down to $1 that will mean that all countries are equal, which would be quite a nice situation. So anyone could go and live anywhere. That would suit me just fine. It's a tragedy that some people are stuck in hideous places like Somalia. It is one of the world's historic successes that 1 billion people in China have been able to improve their lives by orders of magnitude from the depths of Mao's Maelstrom and centuries of horrible poverty. India is starting to figure out that remaining a kleptocratic socialist realm of poverty is not all good [happiness is great, but happiness with money and not being dead is even better]. Even Africa is improving somewhat, with a bloke I know of laying fibre across a previously war-torn country. Mqurice