| This is a system for paying for any and all government operations,
programs and services, and unlike taxation which robs from everyone, punishes initiative
and success and drains the economy, this system charges only those who use the services or
who cause damage through criminal or liability acts and it generates investment to make
the economy grow. 1 - Governmental
Structure, Elected Officials and Administrators
(A) The representatives and administrators of the government
can be financed in the same way as described in Liberdemian Revenue System.
(B) Government Administrative Charges
Administrative services provided to the people help to create an environment
of fairness which allows a free market to operate and generate wealth for its civilzens.
The charges cover the maintenance of the structure of the government, its administration
and voluntary regulation that is provided as a service to consumers who seek it. The
government maintains law and order, adjudicates disputes and enforces contracts so that
the society may function in an orderly manner.
Governments may charge fees to people who choose to do business in economies organized
under that government where a percentage fee would be charged on every purchase to cover
the cost of government operations. This is not a tax because it is voluntary and a charge
on the service that the government provides that people desire and is limited to people
and entities who choose to join or participate in an organized economy under that
government. People and business entities are free to leave that organized economy at any
time and organize their own economic associations and form their own free market
government under their own contracts and terms. Government
services must compete in a free enterprise system.
The charges may be paid by the consumer at a percentage rate, say from 1% to
5% on the purchase of the product. Or, as an alternative, charges may be paid directly by
businesses based on a percentage of their profits or at a rate equitable to the total
worth of the business or the value of the businesses resources operating within the
organized economic space. Individuals may be charged a flat rate.
See also; Security Charges and Education Charges
(C) Government Stocks
Governments may operate as corporations who provide services and raise capital through the
sale of stocks.
(D) Government Bonds
The Government may raise money through the sale of bonds to be paid back
with interest at a later date with money that is generated from the continuing sale of
bonds in the future as the government does a good job and continues to prosper and
develops a confidence in the public who realizes that the bonds are a secure investment.
The bonds must be insured to guarantee payment.
(E) Governments may also be
supported by convict
labor or they may operate a lottery or raise money from interests on loans.
(F) Sponsorship
(G) Bids for Government Offices
Government is a service industry created by people, therefore it is
itself a property, a product, and may be bought and sold on the market. A government
should be operated as a corporation where the shareholders, the civilzens, may sell not
only government services, but they may sell government offices and agencies also. The
state operates as a cartel where mobsters assume offices and extort money out of their
subjects through taxation to support their own extravagant lifestyles and to perpetuate
the tyranny they hold over the people. In the free enterprise Libercratic system, the
government itself is a product that is up for sale to the highest bidder, the civilzens
who are the owners of the government, literally as shareholders, don't have to pay to
support office holders, instead they sell or rather rent out the offices to whomever they
choose. This provides a flow of capital into the government to support administrative
services.
You might say, government for sale to the highest bidder? That sounds like an
open encouragement to corruption. But not when you consider the fact that it is the
administration of the institution that is rented out and legislation which is offered as a
service to the people that you realize that government is just another marketable
commodity, a service to be offered to consumers, for this reason different entities, in
this case political parties, special interest groups and corporations will desire to
compete for government offices and should be willing to bid on them. This isn't
corruption, it's open market operations. In republics people rightfully condemn the open
bribery that exists where offices are awarded to candidates who raise the most money by
the parties who control the cartel and legislation is purchased by the most powerful
special interest groups and corporations, this is corruption because these interest groups
compete for power in a monopoly that is imposed on everyone. If the same system existed in
the free marketplace where citizenship was voluntary and people joined a government the
way they join a club or accept the rules set by the insurance company when they purchase a
policy, then it wouldn't be corruption, it would simply be a way of competing for a market
share of consumers by offering what they want. If the consumer no longer wishes to consume
the legislation offered, then that individual may choose a different government or live as
an independent sovereign or create one's own government and offer it to others under other
conditions.
The way the system would works is, elective offices, administrative positions
and agencies will be on the market so that individuals, political parties, corporations
and special interests may bid on them.
For instance, when the executive office is open for election, the election board may
accept bids for the office which may include; candidate No. 1, a multi-billionaire who
bids one billion tokens for the office and has billions more left to spend on his personal
campaign, candidate No. 2, a person who is individually without wealth but is a skilled
politician who is backed by a powerful political party who has hundreds of millions of
tokens to spend and bids 100 million for the office, candidate No. 3 is a person who is
chosen by an industry special interest group who bids 10 million tokens for the office and
has a few million more to spend on his campaign, candidate No. 4 is an idealistic poor
person who is without special interest backing, but is able to raise a few million tokens
for his campaign and is able to bid one million for the office. Many other political
parties and special interest groups or individuals may also make bids and will be
completely responsible for their own campaigns, they may solicit contributions with no
limit from anyone and with no restrictions on spending, though governments should require
that candidates make a full disclosure of the money they have raised or intend to spend on
their campaign and they must document the origin of the money.
By listening to what the candidates have to say during the campaign and after
considering the bids made and whether and not they trust or believe in those candidates,
the people will determine who they vote into office. The voters may choose a candidate who
has offered a lesser bid if they prefer that candidate's message and trust that person's
leadership, the fact that a candidate has bid a huge sum doesn't necessarily mean that
person isn't trustworthy, in fact the billionaire may be the most trustworthy because he's
not beholding to special interest groups, however, maybe the people will choose a
candidate who does represent a particular party's ideology or a particular interest group,
such as business people who want to remove all restrictions on trade with other
jurisdictions or an environmental interest group, that's up to the voters. The candidate
they vote into office will then pay the sum bid directly to the government, of course
candidates who make bids must show that they have the assets to pay up, those who lose
don't have to pay their bids, though the government may require fees to get on the ballot.
Once the candidate assumes office that person and one's backers must be
willing to pay their own expenses and provide for their own income. You might ask, won't
this lead to incentives for corruption and taking bribes? The state's political system
pays elected officials tens of thousands of dollars, even over a $100,000 in salaries and
they still take bribes. This system operates as a service business so they must provide
services that people want and for which they are willing to pay, the office holders will
be no more susceptible to bribes than will the CEO of a corporation who must earn his
salary by producing it himself by increasing the profits of the company. Though in this
case they may take office without the any income flowing in at the time and must be
willing to pay their own expenses until they are able to turn a profit, this will provide
competition and incentives for those people who are best at managing profit making
enterprises. Eventually if the government begins turning a profit, then making a bid will
become an investment that will pay off in the long run.
The money for the bids and payment of the salaries of the elected and
appointed officials comes from individuals, corporations and special interests who
contribute to the party who sponsors the campaign of their choice. If the voters elect a
candidate, it will be up to those voters to support that person in office, if they fail to
contribute enough money to pay an adequate wage, then that person may choose to resign and
seek higher paying employment.
But, you ask, what if one powerful party or corporation should buy up all of
the offices and agencies and gain total power to impose their rule on the people? First of
all, the civilzens always control who gets in office, if they fear one party, then they
may vote for many other parties, and this system works best where the people, who retain
total control by their vote, may alter or overrule any legislation by initiative,
referendum or recall to change anything elected officials do of which they don't approve.
Secondly, to protect the integrity of the security services and justice
system, bids taken for the leaders of security services and court positions should come
from totally different companies or individuals who offer different services and the
security branch and justice system must be kept completely separate from the
administrative branch. People may choose a government that does or doesn't solicit bids
from security service firms and justice providers, but, they are still services that will
operate and compete against one another in the free marketplace. The critical element is
that the individuals vote for the office holders, the people make the rules and because
the security services are a separate branch, even if one party does control all
administrative offices and agencies and becomes corrupt, then the police, who are
independent of the administrative branch will arrest them. The administration has no armed
forces to command and people are always free to secede at any time. So there is no real
incentive for a party or corporation to attempt to buy up all power, because there are no
taxes, they must produce services that people are willing to pay for, if one large corrupt
party where to attempt to buy up all offices to reestablish the state and try to impose
their will on the people, then they would find that they have no money coming in and they
would have no power, the offices they have bought would be merely titles. What candidates
purchase is the opportunity to provide services which are demanded by consumers.
The most important thing is that Libercratic government is not a monopoly, it
is a free enterprise system of government and there may be many different types of
governments that operate and compete so that one party will not be able to buy all
governments everywhere and establish a state monopoly that then forces people to pay
extortion in taxes to support them. The only way Libercratic government may make money is
by offering services that people voluntarily choose and for which they will voluntarily
pay, if people don't want a service, then they don't have to pay for it, if they don't
like the way the government under which they are living is being run, then they may choose
a different government, or start their own or live without any institutional government at
all.
The same process applies for electing members of the legislature, though the
people may choose to vote for all rules themselves or they may choose to vote for
representatives who bid for office and trust them to provide the legislative services they
desire, always having the power to vote out of office anyone they don't like or to secede
individually from that government.
As for appointed offices such as the heads of departments, agencies and lower
offices, the people may either choose to accept separate bids for those positions, or the
system may allow the elected officials to be responsible for not only appointing the heads
of other agencies but they will be responsible for paying for their salaries and the
operational expenses of the agencies. This creates a strong incentive to streamline and
down size the government keeping it as small and efficient as possible, just as
corporations must streamline. Unlike with the state where there are constant incentives
for every person working for the state to constantly increase the size and reach of the
system creating ever more complex bureaucracies and demanding more and more tax money,
Libercratic government will function as a corporation which must minimize expenses and
personnel in order to maximize profits by providing only what their customers really want.
If the system accepts separate bids for the agencies, then may would create
greater diversity and competition within the government and prevent the executive and
legislative offices from appointing their own people to serve narrow interests. The
incentives to minimize expenses and personnel remains, as does the profit motive, however
this may interfere in the ability of the leaders to direct operations toward maximum
profit if different interests are too predatory so that they obstruct one another, but
this shouldn't be a real problem, because if they do then no one will make any money,
besides, the different agencies will be providing different services so that there will be
an incentive to cooperate to some degree so that they don't obstruct overall operations
while providing more competition and choices.
As I see it, the government will be more trustworthy when it becomes so
successful that there isn't just one bidder that wins an office or control of an agency,
but that the demand is so high that several candidates' bids are accepted and there are
multiple executives and legislatures, official security services and court systems within
the same government and many agencies providing the same service. In fact, this is one way
in which the government might grow, and one that is positive, where many different
agencies operate in competition officially within the government providing the same
services just as there are many companies providing the same services in the marketplace.
This creates no strain on the people, because there are no taxes, it just means more
choices for the consumers. In this system if you look for a service such as consumers
wanting to purchase products that have been highly regulated and inspected, there will be
different regulatory agencies providing different degrees of regulation at different
prices so consumers will have more choices, always maintaining the choice of seeking
private regulation or no regulation at all over the products they purchase.
If you're thinking, this doesn't sound like government, it sounds like free
market services with many private companies in competition, well, that's really what it
is, only its organized under the marketplace tent that is labeled as government and called
official, although there is little difference between that which is officially provided
and that which is privately provided. Really, as I have said, I believe that the people
should create their own legislation through negotiated contracts or vote for legislation
that applies directly to individuals and their activities themselves without needing
representatives or bidding to offer legislation, there is no reason to offer legislation
for sale, although under some systems, legislation itself may be for sale, the system I
speak of would apply only to the administrative functions of government and the
regulations that are provided as a service like any other service as well as other
programs and services that are not backed by the force of legislation but are simply
products offered to consumers.
2 - Justice System - Courts, Juries, Advocacy Groups
(A) Private courts may be set up to handle criminal and civil cases in which both sides
agree to accept the procedural rules of the court and its final decision. The private
court system may be paid for in the same manner as described in Liberdemian Revenue System
for the Judicial Branch.
(B) Bids for Official Courts
(C) Sponsorship
(D) Marketable Claims
The victim of a crime who files a charge and a claim to restitution may sell
one's claim to restitution and with it the responsibility of prosecution. By selling one's
claim on the open market the victim who doesn't have the money or time to prosecute the
case one's self may sell one's entitlement to the highest bidder, which means that the
victim should may still get some portion of the restitution immediately, the rest would be
paid to the purchaser of the claim after conviction. This is particularly advantageous to
the poor. If the victim wants full restitution then that person may act as one's own
prosecution or hire a prosecutor, or the victim may seek the services of an established
government who will prosecute the case for one without charge or defer the charge to the
future.
Anyone may prosecute murder or child abuse or sell the claim to someone who
is better able to prosecute the case, the owner of such a claim will be the next of kin,
or if no kin files, then the first person who files the charge gets the claim. Relatives
accused of the crime against a family member may not file a claim against themselves.
(F)
Advocacy Groups
3 - Security - Police,
Emergency Response, Defense
(A) Private security services; police, fire, EMS
and defense may be provided and paid for in the same manner as described in Liberdemian
Revenue System for the Security
Branch.
(B) Security Charges
A great deal of revenue for security will come from consumers who pay
for the value of security that is created within the contractual space of their organized
economy. When a consumer buys a product that person is paying for the security that allows
people to do business in a free and honest environment. Of course they can't be forced to
pay for a security service that is imposed on them, that's a protection racket
(extortion), they can simply choose not to do business in an economy that charges for
security, but if they make that choice it is less likely that enough revenue will be
generated to provide adequate security for its participants, but it may be their choice to
limit their associations to a small organized space where they police themselves or they
trust all of the participants who enter into it.
Security charges can be required for everyone who enters into an explicit or
implied contract within an organized economy. When any business enters into the organized
economy they will have agreed to charge their customers, and the consumers by doing
business within the economy agree to pay for the service. People and firms who do not pay
for security will be excluded from the organized economy. People within such an economy
should be encouraged to boycott businesses who refuse to pay for security services in
their chosen government or treaty organization. So that it is in the best interest of
everyone to support a system of paying for security services to create a general
environment of security, freedom, fairness and respect for individual rights that allows
everyone to put their resources into an economy and enjoy all of its rewards. But,
repeating, this is not a tax nor is it compulsory, any person, corporation or group may
choose to form their own organized economy and provide their own security for themselves
in their own way, no one may be forced to pay for someone else's security or to support
security services for which they have not given their consent. The security service
industry must be in free enterprise competition.
(C)
Security Insurance
Persons who have no security insurance may be charged for a call by any
of the security services. For example, if a person without security insurance should be
the victim of a crime and/or a disaster, such as; if a thief has stolen one's property and
set fire to one's house at the same time, when the police and fire department are called
to the residence, they will perform their duty and later bill the person who called for
their service. If the person receiving the bill is unable to pay it, there are several
options; one is joining a government which will agree to provide security insurance
coverage in the future, as it's too late for the damage already done, or; the security
firm may arrange for a delayed or financed payment with interest. In any case, the bill
must be paid. If a person calls for a service one will be required to pay for it, even if
it means suing to get the money. This is why most people will choose to have security
insurance in the first place. The uninsured person, though, may not have to lose any
money in the long run, if the debtor signs up for security insurance, the bill can be paid
in full once the suspect is caught and made to pay restitution to the victim. Though, this
may take many years to repay, the security firm wants their money now and the uninsured
victim will have to wait for recompense. This, again, is the main reason why most people
will choose to have security insurance, because, in the case of a crime or natural
disaster, the insurance company will make the payment to the security services and pay the
victim's claim of damages for the crime and/or natural disaster now and the company will
later collect recompense, plus interest, from the convict without any increase in the
individual policy holder's premiums, although a crime wave or large natural disaster may
increase premiums for all policy holders within a given area. If the criminal is not
caught, the uninsured person will lose one's deposit and the insurance company will lose,
but the individual policy holder will not lose but may file a claim and receive
restitution immediately without having to wait for the suspect to be caught, put on trial
and made to work years to pay off the damages. So that in this system both the victim and
the security firm receives immediate payments while the insurance company assumes the long
term risk and waits for reimbursement. Although, neither the victim nor the insurance
company needs to sit idly by, since they can hire their own private investigators to
capture the suspect. Many insurance companies will choose to support their own
investigations as well as increasing support for the public security services to help
expedite reimbursement.
The insurance company that originally handles the claim may transfer the
account to any other firm, although the policy holder will be guaranteed by contract that
the terms of the policy will be met by any new firm who accepts the transfer of the
policy. Insurance companies who need money now may take a loan or a direct payment from
another firm as reimbursement and agree to transfer the entitlement to later collect
restitution from the convict to the new firm. Information systems will open to provide
information to the public as well as other insurance companies, security firms and bounty
hunters that are willing to take on the responsibility of catching felons.
(D) Stocks
(E) Bonds
(F) Futures
(G) Fines
(H) Criminal Asset
Forfeiture
(I) Sponsorship
(J) Bids for Official Security Services
Private
Regulation Funding
4 - Monetary Regulation - Banking
The cost of creating and regulating the currency will be borne initially by the issuer
who may pass on that cost to the user in the form of transaction fees. With free market
money, this is all voluntary. Different issuers of currency will compete for customers to
use their money, in the same way that credit card companies compete for customers.
5 - Public
Safety Inspections
Persons who perform actions that have been determined to endanger public safety will
be required to pay for safety inspections and any additional cost needed to reduce or
eliminate the threat.
Persons who file false complaints of public endangerment may be required to pay for the
cost of the investigation and inspection.
6 - Regulation
of Industries
(A) Consumer
Regulation is a service provided to people who must pay for the type and
level of regulation they want. Consumers will naturally demand and choose different levels
and types of regulations, this demand will be supplied most efficiently by the market. If
a consumer demands products that have very strict regulation, with inspections and
extensive testing, then that person will be willing to pay for that service. However if
another consumer would rather pay less for a product that is offered as is, with no
inspections or testing, the that person has the right to spend one's money to purchase
that unregulated product. Consumers who want a high level of regulation will be willing to
pay for it, consumers who want little or no regulation have the right to spend their own
money to make purchases with little or no regulatory protection; caveat emptor.
(B) Occupational Safety - The cost of compliance to employee
established safety codes is borne by the firm as a whole.
(C) Public Safety - The cost of compliance to Public Safety
Inspections, as described above is borne by the industry or firm if they are guilty of
endangering public safety. Firms who are not responsible for endangering public safety
will not be punished and will not be made to pay for the transgressions of the guilty. So
that creates a powerful incentive for firms to be responsible.
7 - Health Care
Like in any other industry, the consumer must have the option to choose the level
of regulation and protection that one wants and for which one is willing to pay.
Poor people who are unable to afford either health insurance or medical bills
may seek health insurance and/or care from a cooperative or a civil
government.
For people of property who may not have insurance and are not able to pay the
bills, there may be an arrangement made to finance payments or to sign over one's property
to an agency who agrees to pay the medical bills now and collect the property at a later
date or after the owner's death.
The enforcement of health care regulation should come from the member's treaty
organization.
8 - Environmental
Protection
(A) Pollution
Polluters must pay the entire cost for the protection of the environment,
including; administration, regulations, inspections and cleanup, plus they have to pay for
the damage that they do to private individual's property and health.
(B) Public
Lands
Individuals who hunt or fish must pay to maintain the wildlife populations,
and people who just want to experience natural parks and wildlife preserves must pay to
use them.
Poor people may gain access to public lands through a civil government or
treaty organization or contractual charter that arranges to charge users in proportion to
their income, where all persons will pay a percentage of their income. Richer persons will
therefor pay more, with lower income persons paying less and poor people paying nothing,
with the cost borne by the higher income persons. For this system to work all that is
needed is a willingness to provide public access to all with visitors gaining admittance
with an ID card which knows what to charge because of the visitor's prior permission
having been given to the trustee that manages their contract insurance to appraise their
incomes. As it is unlikely that everyone who visits public properties will be willing to
participate in this system it would work only if enough richer persons are willing to do
this to provide free admission for poor people. Other people who wish not to participate
in the ID system will pay a flat rate, this rate may be set high enough to cover the cost
of poor persons who do participate in the ID system. The ID system maybe unnecessary if
enough contributions are made from private sources or with business sponsorship that
provides the additional revenue to provide free access to the poor to public
properties.
9 - Social Provisions
(A) Social Insurance includes retirement, unemployment,
worker's comp., and can also include family aid, health, and life.
People must prepare for their own retirement. The way for individuals to secure their
futures is through social insurance. Social Insurance is a policy that protects against
the possibility of losing your job because of disability or not have enough retirement
funds; the IRA not earning enough interest or other unforeseen circumstance. The way it
works is; when you go to an insurance company to buy this type of policy, the company will
take a look at your job security, future, how much you have in your retirement account and
in what your IRA is invested, to make sure its secure. If the company is confidant in your
situation, your premiums will be low, however if you have no job and haven't taken the
personal responsibility to prepare for your own retirement, then the company won't issue a
policy to you. You see, this creates an incentive for individual responsibility, in that,
if you want social insurance you will need to take other steps in planing for your own
future, without government coercion. The risk is spread out across society, so no one
individual will have to worry about losing one's money. Besides, social insurance is to be
used only in an emergency and only if a person's retirement isn't enough to cover one's
needs, then the social insurance will be there for them.
Many individuals won't even use any of the social insurance money, since it's
only to be used if all else fails. Social insurance can be offered in a package deal with
other insurance policies and you can get discounts on health or life premiums, since it
spreads the cost out over other policies.
Social Insurance will not just cover retirement, it will provide unemployment
and worker's comp. coverage and can be used to support the family if the policy holder is
unable to provide for one's family through no fault of oneself.
(B) Unemployment
& workers' compensation
Individuals may seek employment in an organized economy that requires employers
to provide unemployment
insurance and workers'
compensation.
(C) Basic
needs; housing, food, clothing
Basic needs may be provided by a civil government or a
cooperative if such needs can't be provided by charity.
(D) Opportunity programs; grants and loans
Besides private funding, civil governments may
provide grants and loans for various purposes.
10 - Education
(A) Education Charges
Most revenue for education will come from consumers who pay for the value
of an education as its contributed to the economy. When a consumer buys a good or service
that person is paying for a compilation of the resources, work skills and time put into
producing that product, one of the more important resources in the production of the
product is the education of the people who work in the business. Since consumers use this
resource they are expected to pay for it. Of course they can't be forced to pay since the
people who accept a job may not charge the firm for one's education and the business
choose not to charge the consumers for it, but someone has to pay for this resource,
rather than extracting money from people to the extortion of taxation, it is only fair
that consumers pay for what they use as they use it.
Education may be charged to the consumer at a percentage rate, say from 1% to 5% on the
purchase of the product.
This would not only cover education but would also provide most of the funds for academic,
scientific and medical research.
Education fees can be required for everyone who enters into an explicit or implied
contract within an organized economy. When any business enters into the organized economy
they will have agreed to charge their customers and the consumers by doing business within
the economy agree to pay for the resource of education they are consuming.
Businesses may in addition make extra contributions on their own to education to get
people to support them. People and firms who do not charge for education will be excluded
from the organized economy, so that it will be in their best interest to agree to it.
People within such an economy should be encouraged to boycott businesses who refuse to pay
for education.
(B) Tuition
An educational institution, financial firm or government may offer people the
option of pre-paying for school, for parents to pay ahead of time for elementary, high
school or college. By paying several years ahead of time the firm will guarantee to pay
the tuition either to specific schools, public or private or to any school, the firm will
be able to invest that money and earn a profit above the tuition cost, the firm may also
or instead of doing that, negotiate with schools to pay the schools or educational
organizations some of the money now to get them to reduce the rest of the future tuition
which would be paid later.
(C) Institutional Endowments - Individuals,
firms and organizations should be encouraged to contribute money to set up endowments that
would first pay the salaries of teachers with additional annuities that can be used for a
particular curriculum, school or education organization.
(D) Scholarships
(E) Education Bonds
Education organizations may issue bonds that when purchased may be redeemed
at a time in the future with interest. These bonds help to raise additional money for
education. The interest comes from the success of the organization. These bonds must be
insured so that if the organization goes out of business, the insurance company who backs
them will be liable for paying off the bond.
(F) Education Stocks
Education organizations may operate as corporations who issue stocks.
(G) Agents
(H) Grants - Many individuals, governments and institutions offer grants in
aid to qualified students.
(I) Loans - For those students who are not able to afford tuition
and are not able to obtain money for school from other sources, the last resort is a loan.
These loans should be at a low interest and allow the person enough years to complete
one's education, get a job and begin paying back the loan. It is imperative that the
student does eventually repay the loan with interest, because that person has an
obligation not only to the lender of the money, but to the next generation of students who
need to be able to borrow money from a system which is self-perpetuating. That way, one
generation can help to provide the same opportunities that they enjoyed to the next
generation.
(J) Competition Prizes
The education organizations will excellatate with other organizations
with standards established and incentives provided by awarding prizes to those
organizations who achieve success.
The money for these prizes can come from the organizations themselves putting up prize
money as a demonstration of their commitment to excellence and also from sponsors of a
neutral excellence board that judges the performance of the organizations and awards
prizes to those who are successful.
(K) Sponsorship
(aa) There may be sponsorship of a school, an education organization or
sponsorship of a particular curriculum or program, textbook or other resources. Businesses
may also sponsor individual teachers or students. And we will solicit sponsorship of
sports and artistic buildings and sporting events and artistic performances and also
sponsorship of other academic buildings, laboratories, clubs, scientific and technological
research and science and engineering contests and other pursuits.
(bb) Firms and economic networks should be willing to pay students to get an education and
perform up to high standards. Why? Because a firm or network of businesses may make this
offer if the student and/or the student's parents make a commitment to use an electronic
currency card that only works within the network, meaning that if the network pays the
student, the student will do virtually all of one's shopping within the economic network.
The student and/or one's parents will agree to transfer automatically their salaries into
the currency that is tagged to be used only with the card. Today there are many offers for
you to receive a free computer if you sign up for an on-line service, the profits are made
from advertising and buying on-line. This is basically the same idea, only extended to
education. A network who pays the student may also give the student a computer with an
on-line service as long as the student uses the network's card to shop, and they may
control the websites to which the user has access so the user will only see the network's
ads, so the networks can directly market to the student and one's family.
(cc) Businesses may in addition make extra contributions on their own to education to get
people to support them.
11 - Research - Subsidizing critical academic,
scientific, medical and technological research, inventions and innovations.
Research can be paid for from all of the same methods of generating revenue as for
education, much of the funding coming from education charges.
Like education, agents representing firms may sign contracts with research firms or
with individual scientists or inventors agreeing to help support them in return for
representation or a claim on any future innovations.
Corporations will sponsor research firms and their inventions and products.
Civil governments will sponsor research.
12 - Sponsorship
We will encourage businesses and other entities to sponsor various government
services; agencies, education, security, courts, etc., where a corporation or other entity
would put its name on the agency, program or service.
13 - Membership Dues
Governments may charge dues to civilzens who receive its services.
14 - Contributions
Individuals, corporations, special interest groups and other entities may
voluntarily contribute money or resources to the government to help support specific or
general programs.
15. Credit Cards
Governments may offer their own credit cards and make money from the
interest, the same as other credit cards. This creates an incentive for people to
voluntarily support their government. Of course, the most important thing is that the
government may not set up a credit card monopoly.
by Gregory Flanagan |
