[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mapuc

^ The solution may be think local while being national.
Let each town or area be self-sufficient with energy supply

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Exactly, and not just regarding energy - taxes in general! Power back to the local regions, away from national centres and supernational organisations. When i must pay taxes, i want the money being spend in my vicinity, my sphere of life, my living place and beyond that only on those purposes that I order, support, want to see being conducted. I do not need my taxes being channeled to some foreign people four hundred kilometers away in some other regions capitol and there being distributed on purposes that have no link to my own life and place anymore. Why must I pay for the building of some bridge in Bavaria? if I want to go to that foreign place, I am ready to pay for the purpose and services there - but not by taxes, but fees to be paid the time when I order or use them. Like you pay a parking ticket when you enter a poarking house. a Maut system, so to speak. You pay on use, you do not use it - you do not pay.

Needless to say, career politicians living of other peoples' money and political parties in general hate such thinking like mine, no mmatter their ideolgocial backgorudn, they hate it. It eradicates the basis of their own existence. It renders them useless and unneeded. They are men in the middle that push their wonderful presence in there without there being any need for them,a d for this they dmand money. Hilarious! The world would be much better off without them, it is them not being the solution to problems, but problems' origin in the first. At least very, very often.

Administrative districts should not be bigger than what any citizen in them can overlook and oversee. Thats the "local" in "local regions". That is transparency. The only transparency worth to be called that.

National taxes and administrative structures are not popular in Greece for one reason, a historical one. The ancient city states did not raise taxes. Paying taxes was seen as a gesture of submission and a form of tribute payments to a tyrant or foreign power. So in the end, pride was what stood against allowing a tax system. Instead, the rich and noble class - the only ones who indeed were free citizens - was expected to come up for paying for keeping and maintainign the absic city interests, from building and maitnain in frastrructure to waging war and defending the city. In return, it were these paying classes who had a say in administring the city, if they qualified.

But today every Peter and every Paul contirbtuign nothing to anythign can rais edemands and insist to be heard as if he ahd anythign to say.

No, I want fair deal between equal sides. Give and take. Rights and obligations defined by a contract. Contract violations being sanctioned. Contracts being signed fully voluntarily. Not one side being allowed to break contracts at will and not being held liable, instead getting away with it! Every state is a criminal cartel, every state inevitably leads into growing tyranny, no matter the ideological founding myth.

To me, a state has only one purpose to exist for: caring to defend what is defined as the outer border of the "tribe's" living space. Everythign else, every other function that states today claim for themsleves, could be - better - done and more economically done by private business with which customers - citizens - sign treaties that include passages that the parties have certain rights and certain obligations, and if the service offering company fails to deliver, it can be sued for damage compensation. Not at a state court, but another company, one that is specialising in jurisdiction. Police is security, can be done by private companies. Crime is dmaaging priofiuts, it is in the itnerets of bioth such policing and juristical companies to think about how to keep it low and design their service accordingly. even mor so when there is market competition. The state of today - has no competitor thats why states usually offer the lousiest service for the most expesive price and then show how terribly awful business entrepreneurs they usually are.

Schools, must not besome state's schools, can be schooling as a service provision by a company.

People pay no taxes. People pay for services and products. Prices for items of common usability, road maintenance for example, get priced into the prices for products, and the planning is done not by a state, but by interested business men/companies who need an infrastructure for shuttling around ressources, products, reach consummers, allowing consumers to reach their shops. The state needs roads and access to private property for only one purposde: to get to people and collect taxes from them.



A state is not needed in any of this. A poltical party is not needed in any of these. Only defence is something of a size too huge probably to leave it to regional companies. But if a central government refuses to defend borders like the German does, for exmaple, then such a state and government has forfeit its right to exist and its claim for loyalty. The problem is, the state makes rules and submits others to them, but if he breaks rules himself and fails himself in delivering what he raises taxes for, he cannot be held accountable. the citizen is always disadvantaged, the system is by design corrupted.

In the end, nothing has changed since the feudal system of the past. Citizens are subjects being owned by states. That simple it is. "Small is beautiful". Power away form central natiuonal govenbrment, and back to the local regions.




BTW, nice place you seem to live in, that siland in the film looks like a place poretty much laid back. When i was a boy, 12 yera or so, we had some days on Bornholm durign summer vaccation, and we bought many, many of those oretty, colourful candles that are beign amd ein denmark so much. At kleats back ion those times. I liked being there, just that we had terribly many mosquitos. And I did not know that "Tak" means not "Tach, Tag, Tach auch", a German greeting (Guten Tag), but means "Danke/Thank you". I thought the Danes were kind people but a bit crazy running around greeting others endlessly and repetitively all day long.