The monopoly of force. The referee who arranges the laws and enforces them. So the question is, how to organize it to meet a goal? What is the goal?
1. Survival of a people,
2. Prosperity of a people.
Defining “we the people”
The first step is to define who “we the people” are. This is one thing the founders of America unfortunately took for granted when making the Constitution. They assumed that it was so obvious that they couldn’t imagine a day when people would forget or rather be deceived into forgetting.
The first immigration act, the United States Naturalization Law of March 26, 1790, stated that only “free white persons…of good character”.
The founders of America were Western Europeans and they founded the country as a nation that while being independent of the monarchies of Europe, was a nation of Western Europeans. I propose returning to the stands of the 1790 Naturalization Act and include all European peoples of Nordic, Slavic or Mediterranean (which I mean the European racial type, not the Semitic) descent to become a pan-European nation.
If we want to narrow it down more, the northern states could be formed into Nordic, Slavic and Germanic states and Florida as a Mediterranean New Italy, with the Southwest becoming Spanish/Iberian. In essence an extension of Europe, which is what North America was founded to be, albeit separately by England, France and Spain.
Exception for allies – native Americans and descendants of African slaves.
Native Americans and the descendants of African slaves have a unique position which I acknowledge and therefore offer that allies within these groups can form their own autonomous states.
How to maximize survival?
- Reduce violence, retaliation cycles.
- Police and security force which protects from and a legal system which punishes acts of non-self-defence violence.
- Court system which fairly handles disputes.
- Armed citizenry which can defend themselves.
- Community protection groups which defend from and report acts of violence.
- Protect from foreign armies.
- A military and militia which exceeds the threats posed by hostile political forces.
- The military also has power to punish forces which seek to harm the Nation.
- Intelligence system which can identify threats.
- Political influence and a system to impose it to dissuade potential threats.
- Protect from disease and sickness.
- Immigration/entry system which screens for the introduction of disease.
- Removal of patent system for medicine to ensure maximum availability.
- Prevention of artificial inflation of the price of medical care via barriers to entry. Allow a full market of low quality/low price to high quality/high price. Ensure no fraudulent claims in treatments or poisonous ingredients. Let the legal system ensure the Hippocratic Oath of “first do no harm”. Prevent a certification/certified college system or accreditation institute from gaining monopoly or creating a barrier to entry.
- Have a system in place to counteract the spread/outbreaks of disease. Especially in public transport. Forbid the contagious from using public transport. Forbid the contagious from public buildings, schools and workplaces.
- Require hygiene and basic health education in schools. Continually updated with current best practices.
- Open access to non addictive, non-psychoactive and non-resistant pathogen forming medicine.
- Prevent/punish restrictive regulation creation which hampers medicine, treatment and health technology.
- Protect from starvation.
- Prevent food shortages in the case of famines by aiding farmers in times of drought or poor weather conditions.
- Protect from market manipulations of food supply. Outlaw deliberate destruction of food and the manipulation of food markets.
- Food subsidy for the old and the debilitated.
- Protect from exposure to elements.
- Heating subsidy for the old and the debilitated.
- Elimination of unnecessary home building permits and fees to make home building less costly and allow people in need to build their own homes (at their own risk). Let the courts protect from and punish fraudulent or deceptive home builders rather than driving up the costs with excessive inspects and fees. Minimize or eliminate property taxes to keep housing affordable.
- Protect from natural disasters.
- Create Emergency response systems for aiding people in times of emergency. Allow private companies to also offer emergency services.
- Create a National system of analyzing risks of and proposing solutions to minimize environmental disasters.
- Protect from planetary extinction events.
- Offer subsidies to companies which aid in space colonization.
- 20 year tax amnesty for space-related business activity.
- Fund research into methods of diverting planetary impacts from meteoroids.
- Reinforce the power grid to minimize outages in the case of solar flare events.
- Protect from health damaging pollution
- Allow lawsuits for the damage of health and property from environmental pollution. To prevent abuse, there must be evidence directly supporting 1. the release of pollutant. 2. the health effects are caused by the pollution at the measured atmospheric/environmental levels and 3. the actual costs imposed. Loser pays the legal costs of the other party and the government.
- Study costs of and apply fees for the imposition of costs via environmental pollution.
How to maximize prosperity?
- Minimize transaction costs (reduce predations).
- Protect from theft, fraud, deceit (misdirection or withholding information), extortion, rent seeking, corruption.
- Protect labor market from undercutting via immigration and outsourcing. Only allow when market cannot fill need and only until local market can meet the need. When using foreign labor to meet demand, seek/provide internal investment to produce a market to fulfill the need.
- Remove hindrances to investment. The following should be kept to the minimum that is necessary.
- business taxes – under the “balanced tax system” in a later section the businesses are only taxed to the amount to cover the national militia and government salaries.
- fees and permits – set to minimum to cover costs
- regulation – most regulations should be eliminated and handled by court system instead. Again, these should be set to the minimum to cover costs.
- liability – with a court system set up to prevent abuse and requiring loser to pay legal fees, liability costs will be minimized.
- Remove unnecessary regulations, restrictions and fees to businesses (see above).
- Provide a source of minimal interest loans in which the interest gained is recycled back into the national commons.
- Nationalize banks and set interests to minimum to cover costs.
- Protect intellectual property from foreign theft. Do not allow foreign entities to copy and then undercut the national market.
- Ban companies from importation that violate. Put duties on countries after repeated and willful violation.
- Prevent restriction of inventions from reaching market. Remove patent laws and instead rely on courts to protect from fraudulent copying of products.
- Promote reproductive growth and eugenics.
- Subsidize high IQ reproduction.
- Restrict low IQ immigration.
- Promote meritocracy. Government shall use a system of anonymized selection for hiring and for scholarships based on merit.
- Educate those with the ability in the fields which will add to prosperity (primarily STEM but also could be legal and military).
- Reduce harmful drug use.
- Restrict entry into country and the production via harsh penalty.
- Legalize the less harmful so as to prevent a black market with no standardization.
- Ensure a fair market in old age care so that wealth may be passed down to the next generation rather than absorbed by exorbitant care and medical expenses (ie the current American way).
- Protect environmental damage from causing external imposition of costs.
- Companies must compensate for and would therefore seek to limit environmental damage.
- Only companies owned by citizens can extract resources from national territory.