what will stop corruption [in any country]?
limitation of fortunes
with limitation of fortunes, it is impossible to hide overpay
but is limitation of fortunes fair? - how are we going to know that the fortune hasnt been made honestly?
you work out the largest honestly earnable fortune and limit fortunes to that - it wont stop all theft, but it will stop so much, that corruption wont be a major problem - corruption will be small enough to fight - corruption will not be powerful enough to defend itself by corruption of legal system
money is power, and limitless fortune is limitless power to hide theft - and to legalise it
there is a limit to how much one person can contribute to the social pool of wealth - justice is taking out as much as you put in - justice is the purpose of govt - no justice, no govt - justice, govt
the work is spread, so must pay be
where there is an obvious economic level at which all fulltime working people arrive at, there is little chance of overpay not being noticed
not one of the reasons for higher-than-average hourly payrate is valid - ie, there are no reasons for higher than average hourly payrate [see details elsewhere]
largest earnable fortune is 50 hours x 50 weeks x 50 years x world average hourly pay [US$15, 2006 dollars] minus lifetime's minimum spending - well under US$2 million
all fortunes above this are legal or illegal thefts - it is wellknown that there are many wideopen legal ways in which money shifts automatically from earners to non-earners [details elsewhere]
obviously legal theft exists or there would be economic equality among all fulltime-working nonthieves - a visible economic social plateau - [and the big thieves would stick out]
such a visible plateau causes high capital formation [savings], ie, cheap loans - as people reach, and see they have reached, the general plateau of success, and therefore rest and save
egalitarian countries have high real income growth
egalitarian societies have low social disturbance costs [riots, demonstrations, protests, crime, war, etc] - eg, scandinavia 2% GNP defense costs
justice is: not paying for no work - therefore inheritance is unjust, except in cases where work is done on the understanding of inheriting - [but this case can be dealt with by requiring formal accounts of such deals, with quantification of work done, mutually agreed rate of pay, etc]
inheritance can be limited - to something like the national average yearly income
injustice is payment without work, which is necessarily taking out of the pool of social wealth more than you put in, ie stealing products of work from others - hence lotteries are injustice, theft of work from the rest of the nation - lottery wins can be limited or tolerated
[equality in a society removes the motivation for lottery wins and other gambling as a desperate remedy for illfortune - where work is justly rewarded, there is little motivation to seek money by other means]
this is a big change to society and to social attitudes, but that is the fault of the growth for millenia of injustice, till many injustices have become social traditions and norms
but every injustice still causes violence and the shaking of the state
even if limiting fortunes to US$2 million and the spreading of the overfortunes equally among all humans, man woman and child, could be proven to be unjust, it can still be argued that limitation of fortunes is essential to the peace and happiness of the state's people, that happiness will be improved manyfold
note that in every place where there are religious or racial differences without economic injustice, there are no wars - there are religious and racial wars only where there is economic injustice along religious or racial lines
the purpose of govt is justice - ie, the prevention of taking out from the social pool of wealth [work product] more than you put in by work
fail at this and you must fail at everything
succeed in this and you must succeed in everything
all history and all wisdom says that justice is essential to the state
every sane person desires happiness
without justice there is no happiness
therefore every sane person will unite to produce justice as the first fruit of statehood
the state without justice is a fruit full of worms
since specialisation of work, we have had exchange, ie a social pool of work product - which enabled taking out more than you put in [theft and slavery, overpay and underpay] - we have so far failed to prevent this injustice - and have reaped the consequent violence
escalating to nuclear war and nuclear winter
rather than risk nuclear winter [murder of 6 billion humans], we would if sane unanimously prefer the equalisation of all fortunes, as a first step towards correction of millenia of accumulated injustice
[more precisely, the equalisation of fortunes per year of work, without prejudice of sex]
which would enrich 99%,
and disable tyrants and corruption, oppression and domination
but like misers, we will drown clutching our custom and convention, overpay and underpay, injustice, theft, violence
2006-08-10 00:10:49
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answered by Anonymous
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rooting out corruption is an incredibly difficult task, especially official corruption, because it requires a fundamental shift in people's manner of thinking.
the ideal is to build a "culture" where corruption - bribe-taking, nepotism, etc. - is considered bad and aberrant. but that can't happen overnight.
probably the best place to start is with three prongs:
1) remove the incentive for corruption: if bureaucrats are not paid sufficiently to support themselves and their family, and thus take bribes as a way of supplementing their income, their income needs to be increased.
2) remove the ability for corruption: require that all bureaucratic transactions be recorded and available for public inspection. Sunshine is the best disinfectant: the more public and open interactions must be, the less opportunity there can be for engaging in corrpution.
3) punish corruption: there must be an independent agency (think U.S.'s Eliott Ness in Al Capone's Chicago) that is not subject to the local corrupting influences that can come in and prosecute and imprison those engaging in corruption.
2006-08-09 12:08:37
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answered by JoeSchmoe06 4
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India has a huge beurocracy, but do they have auditors, that is independant people who are not affiliated with politics to check the books? Perhaps impossible to end corruption, or bribes and payoffs, but passing laws to ban it, with manditory imprisonment if found guilty may be one answer. The Philippines has the same problem.
2006-08-09 12:02:59
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answered by cbmaclean 4
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Get rid off the politics and abandon fanaticism. Leave religion out of the government and remove politics from the government. Set incentives for government officials so they will do their job honestly rather than filling up their pockets with bribes. Also, increase their pay so they won't have to turn to bribery to feed their children.
2006-08-09 13:15:12
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answered by 5abiKudi_USA 3
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1. Increase the pay of all Government servants so they can't be 'bought' so easily or so cheaply as is happening now.
2. Implement productivity bonuses.
3. Strengthen the 'Right to Information' Act
2006-08-09 22:28:04
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answered by Praxis 5
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remove democracy,shut peoples mouth (too many cooks....).dictatorship for 3 decades will be needed to remove the corruption,another decade to make a new constitution, in which there will be a watchdog for every watchdog(like police,cbi,internal affairs and more).har baap ka ek baap honaa chahiye...:))
2006-08-13 05:54:14
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answered by loving_u_4ever_n_always 1
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Another Mahatma Ghandi. You can do something! Start somewhere you feel the most unfairness. And use no violence. Just logic.
2006-08-09 12:01:45
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answered by h1joy 2
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nothing i know not much on this subject sorry
2006-08-09 11:59:33
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answered by idontkno 7
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