From: Gary Lloyd (tmethod@gatecom.com)
Date: Sat Oct 25 1997 - 06:11:12 MDT
Anton Sherwood wrote:
>In my favorite scenario (not necessarily the most likely) for a
>libertarian transition, there's no upheaval; people just stop
>cooperating with Big Brother, until it collapses of its own weight.
>There will be an uneasy period, as everybody waits for the
>"inevitable" crime wave - but I bet it won't happen. As the
>drug trade comes from underground into daylight, violence should
>decline; and as trades formerly made uneconomical by taxes or
>regulations suddenly become profitable, many petty criminals
>will find they've got better things to do.
I am inclined toward a more orderly transistion, hence my three part
transition plan:
1. Allow 50% to repeal any laws or portions thereof.
2. Automatically reduce the percentage required to repeal by 1% per year.
3. Allow the majority (50%+1) to raise or lower the percentage required to
repeal by up to, but no more than, 5% per year, and not to exceed 50%.
The idea is to eventually find the optimum percentage, and thus achieve near
unanimity.
Most of us tend to overlook the importance of repeal. As I like to put it:
No matter who makes the laws or how, if I had the exclusive power to repeal
them, we would all be living in GarysWorld. :-)
Gary
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When the boot of government is on your neck,
it doesn't matter if it's left or right.
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