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To: Follies who wrote (90063)	5/11/2012 9:46:10 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219952

It's so much more difficult for a bad government to fail and disappear than a bad business. Bravo On the tradeable.. All I can say is that I realise my vote has had no value as long as I can remember Maybe in the Quebec referenda..

To: Follies who wrote (90063)	5/16/2012 1:35:01 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219952

It would probably be easy. Simply bribe the electorate. "Vote for us and we will give you, gratis, or free, depending on your language preference, your very own Tradable Citizenship. It will be your personal property and owned by your descendants, or estate when you die. It will be worth about US$2 million. If you decide to quit the country to live in Singapore, India, Africa, NZ or anywhere, you can sell it to somebody and keep ALL the money. " < Recent discussions are convincing me tradeable citizenships are the way to go but getting there is orders of magnitude more difficult than term limits and we can't even get there > 50,000 people a year are abandoning NZ to seek economic salvation elsewhere. They take only their personal property. If they owned their own NZ citizenship, they could sell it at auction to somebody in China who wants to escape and can afford to. The emigrant would get about NZ$1 million or maybe even $2 million. The Chinese person would get a bolt-hole to stash themselves, their family and their money. Not to mention a nice place to live. That's $50 billion a year being left behind at present for the bludgers to take possession of. It's an economic catastrophe in process. Once people realize just how much capital they are missing out on, they'll grab it with both hands. People have no idea what their citizenships are worth. Even places like Somalia and Zimbabwe might suddenly start to look quite attractive once the barbarianism stops and capital development gets under way when the citizens stop their value being destroyed. Maximum profits are probably available in the cheapest countries as economic development would probably flow to them. Tradable Citizenships in Zimbabwe sold at auction now would be worth not much at all; maybe $100. But if the politics was made right, which the citizens would soon do, it could soar to $10,000 or $500,000 in quite short order. Mqurice