Of course when I searched I found oposing advice:
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Time to go wild. I’m basically a libertarian
We’ll start off with a representative democracy. There will be two chambers: a primary, legislative chamber; and a secondary, revising chamber. Members of the first chamber will have to stand for re-election periodically; members of the second chamber are picked at random from a subset of the electorate - over 60, people who have achieved something, for example generals, captains of industry, professors - and do not have to stand for re-election. The primary chamber can override the secondary one if necessary but with checks.
No monarchy, no presidency, but a Prime Minister.
The franchise is available to all citizens over 25 who have served their country in some form or other for at least 4 years - not necessarily military a la Heinlein. The franchise may be granted to exceptional other individuals.
The economy runs off trade and production, and transport is the lifeblood of trade so the government will have a primary charge of facilitating this.
There is a limited benefit scheme and basic healthcare. Families are expected to take care of each other. All drugs will be legal, but addiction to certain drugs will mean that you do not qualify for healthcare except for recovery from addiction.
Taxation is as simple as possible: the national government taxes on transfer of assets, from a child buying a sweet to wages to one corporation buying another. How regional governments tax will be up to them. Trade will be fair, not free, and duties put in place to effect this.
There will be a strong military. Apart from national defence, the military’s role will be to protect and enhance trade. There is also a strong social engineering side to this, concentrating on putting out confident, fit, self-reliant young people. The military will be encouraged to send people abroad as often as possible to promote trade, goodwill, and give troops experience of foreign lands. We will likewise host foreign militaries.
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And if I am duly elected to your legislative chamber I will immediately introduce legislation to rescind the terrible tax that you have cruelly levied on the wee, but hard-working, little children of our nation. A tax they are forced to pay when penchant and necessity requires them to spend their hard-earned pennies, dimes, and nichels to buy sweets.
Otherwise the mamas and papas of the new libertarian nation might want to throw we bums of the legislature, out.
LOL Milum! I should add that the tax would be charged on the business, not the individual.
And just how do you suppose the businesses will come up with the money to pay those taxes? :dubious: