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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (93048)	8/1/2012 8:36:19 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219670

Big countries are not "broken" as the fashionable phrase has it. The problem with current Big Government is the tragedy of the commons, with diffuse costs and concentrated benefits, with voters voting for politicians who will give them public loot. Changing the incentives will change the outcomes. Big Government is likely very good, like big power stations are highly efficient and tiny ones are up against the facts of thermodynamics and inefficiency. But Big Government will likely be like Big Corporations, which tend to go off the rails with management becoming self-serving, loss of esprit du corps, loss of purposeful endeavour, internal self-reporting and management systems becoming too big. So it's not as though Tradable Citizenship would automatically bring Utopia everywhere. But at least citizens would have a way out, at an early stage, without losing all their value by simply abandoning ship. Others could get in and would not be free-loaders as they would have to buy their way in, or be issued lease to buy citizenships by the state or by others who might have some to spare. Maybe countries will vote to split up into smaller units. Citizens could opt to take one citizenship or the other. With personal property rights, there would be less incentive for alpha male dominance conquest of competing tribes as has happened regularly to sort out such things in the past. There is not necessarily anything wrong with Big Government. Try designing them right first. Mqurice