Tamil Nady chief minister's complaint that the Centre is "reducing State governments to glorified municipal corporations" is laughable. In reality, every State capital - including Chennai - is a shambles. It is the State governments that have destroyed municipal administration in India - while tom-tomming panchayati raj (village government). Thus, every city and every town throughout India has been destroyed.
Yesterday, I advocated Free Cities. These free cities will require honest civic corporations to run them - garbage, sewage, roads, footpaths, street-lighting, and so on. They will need Mayors - not chief ministers, who can take a walk along with the entire edifice of our The State from Nude Elly. The "model" from History is that of the Olde City of London - and you can find an essay on that in my Natural Order: Essays Exploring Civil Government & the Rule of Law available online here.
If I may add, all these activities of the civic corporation can be honestly "contracted-out" to competing private firms. There need not be any "bureaucracy." There need not be any "departments." The City can be "free." That is, the citizens can be free. The City can have a Basic Law proclaiming the Inviolability of Private Property - and the rest can take care of itself. Instead of "crimes" there can be "torts" - which are all "crimes against the individual" - and, if convicted, the tortfeasor will have to financially compensate his "victim." There need not be any jails.
In such an administrative and legal framework, taxes will be low, and all voluntary trades will be free.
If such an honest civic corporation can be set up anywhere in India, would you not "glorify" it?
And as for the State Governments - the bhateejas of chacha in Nude Elly - this report says they are all heavily in debt! They are part and parcel of the "fiscal deficit" being financed by Nude Elly through printing money and borrowings. The report says that electricity losses alone are over 70,000 crore rupees. And we do NOT have reliable supply. Wanna glorify these morons?
Yesterday, I advocated Free Cities. These free cities will require honest civic corporations to run them - garbage, sewage, roads, footpaths, street-lighting, and so on. They will need Mayors - not chief ministers, who can take a walk along with the entire edifice of our The State from Nude Elly. The "model" from History is that of the Olde City of London - and you can find an essay on that in my Natural Order: Essays Exploring Civil Government & the Rule of Law available online here.
If I may add, all these activities of the civic corporation can be honestly "contracted-out" to competing private firms. There need not be any "bureaucracy." There need not be any "departments." The City can be "free." That is, the citizens can be free. The City can have a Basic Law proclaiming the Inviolability of Private Property - and the rest can take care of itself. Instead of "crimes" there can be "torts" - which are all "crimes against the individual" - and, if convicted, the tortfeasor will have to financially compensate his "victim." There need not be any jails.
In such an administrative and legal framework, taxes will be low, and all voluntary trades will be free.
If such an honest civic corporation can be set up anywhere in India, would you not "glorify" it?
And as for the State Governments - the bhateejas of chacha in Nude Elly - this report says they are all heavily in debt! They are part and parcel of the "fiscal deficit" being financed by Nude Elly through printing money and borrowings. The report says that electricity losses alone are over 70,000 crore rupees. And we do NOT have reliable supply. Wanna glorify these morons?
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