UBI, selling citizenship, and budget deficit
In ideal world of Ancapnistan we don’t have that.
But we live in a society filled with pests called commies.
It’s just reality.
Oh and we and they can vote. Better than killing each other.
So?
Look at UBI.
UBI is the Only government program that benefit libertarians.
Think about it for a time.
What else does? Public school? We don’t like it. Welfare? We don’t like it.
Roads? Well depends. Ancaps don’t like it. Okay roads count. Grey area here. If it can be done cost effectively who cares government or private sectors do it.
Tax cuts? Not sure if I should count that as government program or reduction in government program.
In general we are libertarian because we don’t like most things government spend money on.
So might as well government gives cash and let the market decides how it’s spent.
Unlike georgism I suggest UBI for eligible voters only. Democracies have ways to keep right to vote “scarce”.
Also such UBI will give incentives for voters to be libertarian somewhere else.
Public schools and welfare cost money. So they will chop that off to get more dividend.
What abouttif they raise tax? Can be talked about during campaign season. Private cities like prospera has lower tax.
https://free-cities.org/free-private-cities/
Prospera has like 1 percent land value tax and that’s their main tax revenue.
Unlike funding welfare cutting taxes can be profitable if a city is run like a business. Tax payers are economically productive individuals. Making tax payers happy with more security and freedom can also be profitable.
Here giving UBI turn cities into effectively private cities that sort of work like right enforcement agency.
Another is right to sell citizenship for eligible voters.
Freedom to leave is good for libertarianism. Freedom to leave and get paid for it?
They can sell that to someone wanting in. Just like shareholders eant high valuation of stocks, citizens may want high valuation of citizenship.
That turns every cities into private cities.
Now budget deficits.
Many libertarians aren’t happy. Why shouldn’t we be happy?
Imagine if the opposite happen. Imagine if your country has budget surplus.
Where will the money go?
More public schools? We don’t like it. More welfare? We don’t like it. More DEI? We don’t like it.
Why do we worry about government budget deficit if those money will never benefit us anyway?
Tax cuts are awesome it that’s not going to be what’s winning votes.
Without UBI and right to sell citizenship what incentives do we or anyone have in making government budget cost effective?
In my country we got a governor called Ahok. He cut government spending by half and yet everything is taken care off. Like roads have no holes and rivers are clean, floods gone.
Yet ahok does not win reelection. Instead he was jailed for “blasphemy”. His anti corruption stance make him lots of enemies.
Why?
When central government allocate funds and see lots of left over they take it away. So voters do not even see that the saving benefit them at all?
Why not just pay UBI?
Government deficit is mostly statist problems. Let them worry about it. Politicians need votes. If they can’t figure out how to fix it they don’t get elected.
In case of Trump, we see that he is making government efficient with doge. Even if he failed so what?
As long as tax is low that’s what we should care. Budget surplus won’t benefit libertarians anyway.
If something like budget deficit hurt commies more than it hurts us, who cares?
Whoever got elected will figure out how to make government more efficient. Or government can raise tax but raising taxes too much don’t make them win votes anyway.
While democracy is vastly inferior to market mechanism they do have reasonable check and balance. So I wouldn’t worry too much about budget deficit.
In fact, I think large budget deficit can be libertatians main bargaining position to reduce government.
Look. government simply doesn’t have money. They got to save up.
It’s a lot like competition among government can be our weapon to prevent rising minimum wage. Look, raise minimum wage and factories go to China.
The same way corruption can be our way to push for smaller government. Big govt is corrupt anyway.
So I wouldn’t worry too much for budget deficit, and corruption. Let the commies worry about it.
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