Originally Posted by
Haghstull
There are a few things I want the government to do. Here are four:
1. Effect a free-at-the-point-of-use healthcare system in the mold of those that are beloved by the populations of Europe. This could easily be funded in any number of ways, but a wealth tax is my favorite. Don't worry, Rip, you'll still get to look down at folks who aren't as mercantile as you. They'll just have basic dignities while you do it, in keeping with the western values of compassion and duty to community. A UBI is essential as well, as was recognized by Friedman and Hayek.
2. Put an immediate moratorium on immigration for the sake of preventing the kind of demographic shift that has already erected a scaffold for the strong, cohesive white culture from which we have all benefited so very much. This is not not just poor mexicans--ALL immigration, including indians and chinamen that are responsible for the profound demographic shift in places like silicon valley. If you are based in America, your programmers, engineers and coterie of top managers are American, Zuckerberg. Period. No deals. We may need to adjust demographics more directly in the future, but for now the best we can do is stay the execution.
3. Actually enforce existing labor laws, which would make it illegal for employees to refuse to hire architects because they didn't pass sociology. Basically, college as an institution needs to be effectively destroyed. The villanous, exploitative business community are the only ones that benefit from the status quo. Milton: "The most obvious social cost," Friedman wrote in Capitalism and Freedom about occupational registration, certification, and licensure, "is that any one of these measures...almost inevitably becomes a tool in the hands of a special producer group to obtain a monopoly position at the expense of the rest of the public."
4. Prosecute Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove for the war crimes they carried out in North Africa, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of U.S. soldiers and millions of Iraqi's. Never, ever, EVER fight a war on behalf of an oil company again.