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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (61839)	1/30/2013 10:02:41 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Oops. Sorry for the sloppy writing which caused the "sloppy" reading. Thanks for pointing it out. IMHO there is almost no chance that a first world coutry could / would create a tradable citizenship to test the thesis. It would require creating a new Constitution which would likely change the status of all current citizens. The problem being that those with purchased citizenships would have to be granted first class rights which would leave those whith inheirited citizenships as second class citizens in their own country. For that reason it would be best to start the experiment on a small geographic location like a third world island nation or a Principality. If one were to start with an existing first world Pricipality then there would be no second class citizens. In a small geographic location 20,000 new residents per year would quickly overwhelm it. Of course if it were acquiring new territories from debtor nations like the US then it might not be a problem. As citizens grew in number the resources to purchase territories would be available. It is always easier to manage growth than contraction. This is true in business, and would appear to be true in managing a nation. What to do with the residents of newly acquired territories would presnt challenges. Also how fully to honor existing land use rights would have to be dealt with.