The following is a set of propositions about the nature of government and its relationship to the citizenry that I think should be of interest. Look at it as a quiz, with each answer either “agree” or “disagree” and see how you do, remember to keep a count.
- It would be better if we had a unified country.
- We should have equal rights with respect to other nations.
- Any person who is not a citizen will be able to live in our country as a guest.
- Government has a duty to provide employment for all of its citizens.
- All citizens should have equal right and duties.
- The economy must be carried out within the framework of the general good of the community.
- War profiteering should be a crime.
- Large corporations should be nationalized so that they serve the common good and not private interests.
- Corporations should adopt profit sharing.
- Government should provide old-age pensions to all retirees.
- Government should cultivate a sound middle class.
- Government should have a right to expropriate land for public purposes without paying for it.
- Government should use tax dollars to educate all children.
- All children should be educated about the state by the state as early as possible.
- All college education should be “free” and paid for with tax revenues.
- Child labor should be banned.
- The army should be a national army controlled by the central government.
- Spreading false “news” should be illegal.
- There should be religious freedom for all, as long as it does not endanger the existence of the government.
- Excessive materialism should be condemned and outlawed.
- Government policy should be guided by the dictum of “Public Interest before Private Interest.”
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