>> Global negative income tax It's not just a coincidence that the world's largest democracies have the most catastrophic wars, the most debt, the most regulations, and the highest taxes. The power seekers of the world seek power, and the most power is at the top. The freest countries offer the most to take by the power seekers at the expense of us all. You propose to end war with a global democracy, but wars will never end as long as we give the power seekers the ability to wage war. You propose to end poverty with a global government, but poverty will never end as long as we give the power seekers our money. What you propose is a contradiction.
Math doesn't exist in the real world. It is an abstract logical science developed to help us quantify the world around us. The scientific method doesn't exist in the real world. It is a science developed to help us understand the world around us. But where people do not question the validity of math and science to solve real-world problems, they do question the validity of morality when working with other people, declare it worthless, and then put together elaborate schemes, like a global democracy, to try to solve complex moral problems. Your system is a contradiction and cannot solve the problems you identify because you separate value from the valuer. Something can only have value to someone specific. Your solutions to poverty are someone else's prescriptions for tyranny. The value you place on ending poverty, comes at the expense that someone else places on the value of their money -- for if they agreed with you, then they would donate their money to your cause. For those who don't agree with you, you take their money with the threat of violence. This is the nature of taxation, and the nature of those who do not try to work with others using a moral code. Almost everyone here is a visionary. We believe in the future with the knowledge that all of our theories will someday give way to better theories which will lead us to a life with infinite energy where fantastic devices await us. We are able to see the possibilities where few look, and are willing to look where few believe possibilities lie. This is why we're all on this list; looking for the next great future discovery. So open your eyes and realize that if you want to live in a world without war, without poverty, without constant political strife, then stop giving power to those who seek power. Stop building complex political systems where the few achieve their goals at the expense of everyone else who is not in power. Democracy does not give you equality; it gives you a methodological system of self-immolation, like in the episode of Star Trek where a society had abolished war only to replace it with a computerized system of war, where people affected in a simulated attack had to REALLY go and allow themselves to be killed as if the attack had actually occurred. They replaced war with a game of war, and you have replaced morality with a game of morality called democracy. The solution is simple: we need to start treating other people as equals. So build a moral code with equality as an axiom; and apply whatever theory you develop, equally to everyone. Make no exceptions for race, gender, class, nor any other type of aggregation. Make no exception for any group of people, and you will find that the moral theory you develop will not give power seekers the power they desire over others. Make no exception for government. So if it's wrong to steal, then it's wrong to tax. If it's wrong to kill, then it's wrong to wage war. If it's wrong to commit aggression, then force will only be used in defense from aggression. If you do this; if you build a society which respects the values of others and does not take from some people to help some other people, then you will find people banding together to solve problems like poverty, all working together in the mutual spirit of assistance, and not as slaves forced to give up the money they value, for someone else's good idea. In the 1800s, the abolitionists showed us that we must have political equality between the races. In the 1900s, the suffragettes showed us that we must have political equality between the genders. Realize now, that if we are to move forward from a world based on violence, then we must stop institutionalizing violence, and build a world with political equality for everyone. Craig Haynie
