Now I agree with the basic premise of BIG but I am going to
spin it a different way.
The question a society asks itself is this, what does it take to create a viable,
successful society and what will that society look like in, say 10 or 20 years.
One means to do this is by looking at viable, successful societies
in the past. there is a commonality of what successful societies look like.
The have strong, centralize governments with a fixed and dependable tax base.
the citizens have incentive to participate in the society and they have relative
security/safety within that society. Now the BIG program does offer it citizens
greater security/safety and a greater incentive to participate in society as they
are not marginalized as before. the basic point of society is that not only the citizen
have obligations and responsibilities to society but society has obligations and responsibilities
to its citizens. The continued existence of society depends on its citizens and their
fulfilling their obligations and responsibilities. What we must do and BIG is just an
example, is that we must find way to help our citizens and aid in their success and
survival. Without successful citizens, the society will fail and BIG is one means to
help create successful citizens. All policies must be evaluated in terms of what
it means to aid and improve the society and its citizens. AS we are a majority
based society, we must act in terms of the majority of our people. So in other words,
giving billionaires massive tax cuts is not helpful or aiding the majority of our citizens,
giving massive tax cuts to the majority of our citizens isn’t helpful or aiding the
majority of our citizens. One of the criteria of a successful society is a large
and dependable tax base which turns over enough money to the state to allow the
state in return is use that money to aid and benefit the majority of its citizens such
as building roads, maintaining sewage plants, with schools and hospitals, fire and police
services, in other words maintain the services that allow a successful society to continue
its path to being successful. The BIG plan is just another step to maintaining a
successful society and that kids, is smart. It is by looking at the big picture that we
can see how the BIG program can help the society at large.
Kropotkin