Any one nation is the sum of it’s people. If the nation rewards industry by allowing the people to keep what they have produced, then the people will produce. If a nation feeds a people without asking them to work, they won’t work.
If you want a nation to behave rationally, the people need education in order to think rationally.
How does a nation reward industry? By limiting taxes, the financial burden; limiting bureaucracy, which divert resources; and by encouraging entrepreneurship, which help create new sources of wealth.
How does a nation discourage industry? By granting monopolies and oligopolies, by not educating it’s people, by suppressing dissenting viewpoints, by discouraging any form of entrepreneurship, by locking up resources, which will happen when a state or monopoly runs any one business, by building elaborate and money wasting bureaucracies, by pumping money into non productive government sectors.
Help the poor feed themselves.
Build a strong judicial system that includes a police force entirely divorced from the military forces.
A country should concern itself with: Freedom for all and in most every respect governed by life first and property second. After freedom comes safety but never at the expense of freedom. We extoll our progenitors for defending freedom and then too quickly abandon those freedoms to protect ourselves from harm. If we cannot place our own lives willingly on the alter of freedom, than perhaps we do not deserve our freedom. Next comes education by which the people come to cherish their freedoms and learn to truly defend them. The next goal for a country is transportation so that no set of people is bound by its geography and to encourage industry. Then finally a country should develop and protect its resources allowing the people to use them while requiring that all life within its borders be given proportional justice.
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