ShareDebate International Debates and Topics

• A National-Interest Project-Level Stock (NIPS) Market--a tax free alternative to NASA, NSF & NIH (Milton Friedman participates!). For projects designated by the NIPS-subsidizers (e.g., an association of banks or investment firms) in the long- term market interest, businesses could offer stock offerings at the project level. During the years when no revenues exist, the NIPS-subsidizers could issue a 5-year guaranteed annual dividend to NIPS purchasers who would be required to hold the stock for at least 5 years. Businesses engaged in massive projects (e.g, space manufacturing, starfish-shaped 3-D cities) can use the long-term secured investments as leverage to borrow more money to maximize seed capital & minimize risks. Additionally, the NIPS-subsidizers could receive a common stock interest in the subsidized companies & transaction fees from market activity. Overall, the NIPS-subsidizers & investors should profit. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Contrasting 2 representative institutions: the Olympics & Legislatures--or--Why Occupational Representation v. Geographical Representation may improve Legislatures. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Is the Japanese Patent Law more just & conducive to economic growth? (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• The hidden cost & economic impact of the Business Profit Tax--Doing a multi-level Bill of Material Product Costing Tax Rollup--or how a 35% tax can become a 75% rolled-up tax. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Why Asian countries have advanced so fast. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Preserving economic privacy while using game theory & newer forms of money, such as "smart cards," to fight money- motivated crimes--the debate favors crypto anarchy with families being the enforcing power monitoring delinquent spending behavior while the electronic conversion of cash destroys the market for burglary. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• The myopic vision of carte blanche drug legalizers: Do they forget the violence that devastated China after the British forced heroin legalization in China? Will free will (freedom) exist when the Mafia can legally hire the best scientists with supercomputers to design 100% addictive/alluring drugs? Better approaches are debated. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Scientific evidence of higher dimensions & an afterlife. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Aren't health costs so high because of massive government intervention? Listen to economists & over 25 doctors present the free market side. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Is government & environmental groups the biggest threat to a growing mankind? Two reasons: a treaty with Russia prohibits private property ownership in outer space-- guaranteeing nil future interest in space by the private sector- -the only sector that pushes history positively forward. Government not businesses control city designs--yet years ago two Operations Researchers foresaw greatly enlarged Mall of Americas--privately owned/operated 3-D city systems optimized for low overhead, competitive businesses, & a high standard of living, supporting more people while enhancing the environment. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Majority-voting guarantees mediocre decisions yet there are computer-based voting systems where group choices are smarter than the smartest person in the group. How? Details given. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Supreme Court attacks group free speech rights. Justice Scalia reads his dissent outloud from the bench, proclaiming the majority ruling an "Orwellian announcement." He starts: "Attention all citizens." (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Entrepreneurial Democracy: "That government is best which is legislatively structured the best, voluntarily funded the most, & taxes the least". ("voluntary funding" as in stock, bond & loan markets.) (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• The killing-nature of affirmative action--it's literally killing more Blacks than the KKK ever did, creating inter-racial strife & within Blacks, it's benefiting the top 20% while impoverishing most. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Blasting freedom-lovers: statists continue to win elections because they stick together while conservatives & libertarians run away from common ground. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Political Correctness among Conservatives & Libertarians. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• The myth that Social Security is being ripped off by the elderly--the truth is shown in privatized plans elsewhere. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Coverage on the 10th Amendment & the Ultimatum Resolution Referendum movements. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• Privatizing Welfare by funding it with a multiple-value tax deduction.

• The unfair myth of unfair Japan-US trade. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• The false myth that unilateral free-trade is harmful. (To FTP the lead issue, click here.)

• The myth that citizens should be pleased with deficit- reduction: in the private sector when a company is extremely in debt, creditors do not tolerate continued but less overspending in continuing years. Overspending is stopped & the debt gets pared gradually--citizens should tolerate nothing less with the Government. How to reduce the debt & lower taxes.

• And much more, including great SF fiction, of interest to Conservatives and Libertarians.

Abstracts & FTP pointers to ShareDebate International.

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Last updated November 13, 1995