I have often been accused of being a Communist or even a Anarchist! The truth is I don’t know what I are and these labels we feel the need to give each other only divide. I believe in people not business not money and definitely not government . But I do believe services like health services, public transport, banks, police, prison service and even media should be in the hands of the government! I just don’t believe the government should function the way it does or be what it is.
The government should not be aristocrats, lords, actors or business men representing their corporate puppet masters. The government should be people, normal people and lots of them. The more people a government has the harder it is to corrupt with money.
These people should work within what they specialize in, in other words doctors with experience in the health service should run the health service, teachers should run the education system, bankers should run banks and so on.
Each department pays its governing body an equal flat rate (no bonuses, because bonuses and targets lead to corruption!) So the governing bodies of banks get paid the same wages per person as governing bodies of the education system, police, public transport health service etc….And all governing bodies should be non profit because businesses would not exist but services do. The government run by the people and voters should also control all food, phone and Internet services and these services should also be non profit services.. The service they provide should cover wages and expenses and nothing else.
How should these governing bodies be formed? Through elections! For example every five years or so they could/should allow experienced police/doctors/bankers etc to hold elections. In these elections they could spread their ideas with equal budgets taken from tax and allow people to decide.
Military should be governed the same way and the military should be unable to declare war without a public vote from a fully informed population.
Tax should also be paid on a equal terms, only one tax should exist and that is income tax. This tax rate would have to be adjusted depending on how much money is needed by the health service, police, transport and all others.
Welfare should also be equal and paid for by taxes and run the same as everything else, by a single governing body that have been elected. Welfare cuts or raises should be voted on by the informed masses.
All people should be given the right to share views, ideas and philosophies online and even through media services provided by the government. Political censorship of any kind should not be allowed and free flowing information would be essential because with political censorship and politically motivated information flow would lead to ignorance and therefore poor decision making from people.
Wages should be capped to about three times the amount of whatever welfare is at, these would stop the rich getting richer but it would also mean the poor do not get poorer.
I believe a fully informed society would not vote for war, welfare cuts, health service cuts unless they genuinely believe it was necessary.
I don’t know what this political ideology actually is so I will name it after myself and call it Haleism, I’m a Haleist! Power to the people and only the people.