To: skinowski who wrote (90828 ) 5/31/2012 1:28:04 PM From: Maurice Winn 2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to The fundamental difference between "slave" and "customer" is that in one, there is compulsion with force applied with threat of death if sufficient resistance is offered. In the other, there is no force applied and a purchase is made by free will. <What makes you think that paying taxes means being a "tax slave"? By this logic, every time I buy gasoline, I become an oil industry slave. > One party offers a service, the other is free to buy it or not as they choose. People do NOT choose whether to pay taxes or not, whether you call it "buying government services" or not. Surely you can see the difference? No? Once the money is gone, they'll come back home and move in with their parents, or their families. Other citizens will be forced to act to protect the value of their citizenships, and will try to remove those reckless individuals. Before you know, you'll need a far more powerful police and immigration service that what we have today. > That's the same as now. Any number of people from barbarian states are trying to bust into civilisation to bludge off welfare and other advantages of rich countries. It's only with strong borders that the locals are protected against the onslaught. Like any big social engineering concept, your idea has many weak spots, and none is more important than the expectation that owners of a Tradeable Citizenship will behave... rationally. People are not very rational, and when they are - they don't do it very consistently. > Your idea has been tried around the world, and found to fail everywhere. How long before you give it away as a failed social engineering experiment and set people free?
