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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Price

In my last post I proposed we demand payment for our experimental subjection.

The Rights guaranteed in the Constitution and UN Declaration, the franchise and eligibility to run for office, equitable recourse to law, nationalization of public goods and public stewardship to sustain our common goods, single-payer healthcare, lifelong access to public education, and a basic guaranteed income of ten thousand a year sounds like a fair price to me.

We should pay for it with steeply progressive inheritance, capital gains, income, and property taxes, and sundry licensing fees.

There's my big boring utopia, I guess. A little bit capitalism, a little bit socialism, but mostly just sustainable social democracy. Whoop de-doo.

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