The only function that is realistic for a postmodern state also happens to be morally good. A state’s purpose is to use its riches only to increase the wealth of each of its citizens. They can never reach this goal by remaining fully sovereign. Full sovereignty implicitly means they must undertake duties so costly and so difficult to accomplish effectively that they necessarily reduce the wealth of their citizens. Take the retirement system in Italy. Government officials with the best will in the world have designed it and modified it and administered it over the years yet it works so badly that its results, without being anyone’s fault, are disgraceful. The Social Security system in the US works completely independently of any government. It is not based on paying out retirement benefits from public tax revenues. All such revenues, as is common knowledge, are subject to ineffective or corrupt usage by public officials. A fund for retirement in the US separate from taxes is paid into by all present day workers and businesses as a percent of their current salaries or profits. It works in spite of the ineffective actions of public officials. Italy and every other independent state must get rid of all activities that can be done better at much less cost by the central government of a union of states. It is much cheaper and more effective for states to pool their money together and give all military power to a central government. Independent judicial systems in independent states can not eliminate corruption. States need two complimentary judicial systems, a state system covering most cases and a federal system empowered to assure just actions by officials of both the central government and state governments. It is interesting that business corporations regularly get rid of divisions that are not working profitably. State governments should do the same. They should stop trying to run worldwide diplomatic operations or wasting businessmen’s capital paying excessive taxes or dealing with unnecessary tariffs set up by bureaucrats. Imagine a state trying to run a universal health system for 60 million people! It is nothing more than a continual effort to keep an unworkable system from becoming a disaster. States should pay for all the medical needs of their citizens to doctors and hospitals from the funds they can gain by avoiding using funds for activities that are fruitless, costly and wasteful. I live in a state in a union of states. It pays nothing for military and diplomatic services. It has no state-run medical system but it paid last year 52 billion dollars for medical benefits for its citizens or $8500 per person. It has a large coastline and pays not a cent to guard it. It pays for its own police but it pays nothing for the support given to it by the police of the central government. It pays for its court system but pays nothing for the federal court system that backs it up and regularly tries and convicts corrupt state politicians. Fully independent states are seeing their last days. They don’t see the dwindling days but everyone who looks at states objectively sees them.
Daniel McNeill
Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at
Read it free on Kindle with a free app or buy it on Kindle for $1.99.
Also available as a book for $5.99.
A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected
and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
No comments:
Post a Comment