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Originally Posted by peter12
Perhaps as many as 30-60 million perished in the Cultural Revolution.
I would like to hear of the economic possibilities of socialism and how you think they would interact with human nature as we know it. Think of how you would accomplish this without transforming humanity.
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As I just editted my post above ...
I think Canada has a good system. You'll have to pardon me since its not easy for an engineer to talk politics with a masters of poli sci here.
- Flat tax for general needs (police, fire-fighters, security, etc)
- Taxes based on community for services that are community focused. If you have more money, you should have more luxery. If you can't afford it, tough beans.
- public education, good funding for post-secondary as well
- privitized banking. recent events have me bias.
- government supported/invested entrepreurship. Its in the best interests of the state to support this, helps the entrepreneur as well. In return, the government gets a stake and some control and regulation.
- optional welfare. If you want to donate, great. But welfare should not be offered; rather, those who need it can be supported by those that are willing to donate to it.
- tight control on private companies, the government should have a say in how a business is run - not alot of power, but some. For instance, not let all the work be outsourced to Sri Lanka and Mexico the way the USA has.
- tier 2 health care. Very basics of support are offered to the public, but the wealthy should be able to have more if they can afford it
- as an aside, I think government should have longer terms. I find there isn't enough long-term planning in this democracy/capitalist run society because of the constant need to fight for votes... whether its good for the nation or not. I also think you should have a certain level of education to vote, be it high school or to pass a test to test your understanding of economics, as all votes should be educated votes - something I don't think we're seeing in democratic votes.
Those are a few values, to name a few. Far from China, but far from the USA. Quite Canadian, actually, with a little more on the side of socialism. My biggest beef with the US is that its short-term gains, long term pains; greed and corruption because of little regulaton; poor health care; and the biggest issue that will plague this country, poor education system.
On the side of selfishness... I would like to live in almost pure capitalism.