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You know, I'm not altogether convinced that this is a terrible idea.
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Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:14:34 GMT
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http://www.theonion.com/4002/top_story.html
Iraq could become a libertarian paradise!
Well, it has these things going for it:
* Unequal distribution of money -- those with larger families can pool their
resources and thus have an advantage over their inferior (e.g. infertile or gay)
neighbours. Equal distribution of money leads to a meaningless devaluation of
currency.
* It would require an (allied) banking institution to keep it secure - giving
such quantities of greenbacks at once to civilians would encourage unstability
and could throw Iraq into Chaos.
* Debit cards would still be open to abuse and theft, so why not try out
biometric banking cards? Each card contains the name, fingerprints, pictures and
DNA sample of the owner. Covertly transfer this information to the relevant
security agencies and significantly increase your intelligence!
* Even still, potential for abuse exists. So limit the withdrawls to 25% of the
granted amount a year, and you get to skim the interest off billions. 24 million
Iraqi banking service charges a month comes to a tidy amount too.
* Security might still be an issue, so free market forces, in the form of the
Allied Security Forces, could be paid for by the populace on a
personal-arrangement subscription based system. The extra money that the
soldiers bring home will feedback into your own economy and compliment any
earlier decision to cut your own soliders wages.
* Business plans which would override the aforementioned 25% yearly limit for a
group of individuals would only be valid if they used the newly created banking
system to contain the profits.
* Introduce a modern insurance system, to again counteract any security
problems. No claims bonus's, rising covers, the lot.
Forget WMD and propaganda, banks and insurance companies are our most highly
refined weapons, and they mess us over more than anything else - so why not
export them?
Sure, it's not perfect, but it's more profitable and in all probability has more
planning behind it, in the previous hundred or so words, than the present
situation!
Richard
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