Re: Making Privitization Better
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One of the key oppositions to decreasing the size of government is buildings and land the government owns. Every building the government sells off equates to firing all the beaurocrats inside it. Every acre of land not in public hands can be profitably developed, for the greater wealth of the nation.
Rather than simply selling these resources off to the highest bidder, which in a free market would mean at least occasional transfer of these buildings to foreign owners, what about giving them back to the people who paid for them : the tax payers. Any tax payer who has paid x level of tax would get shares in the building that are privatized. They are now the owners, collectively, and can do with the buildings / land whatever they want.
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Nice idea in theory, see Eastern Europe and the former USSR on exactly how not to do this very idea.
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