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I have a vision (No, I am not smoking strange herbs in my pipe! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />)

Universally government administrations are in dire need for money. It seems they all live on credits from the next generation. (I tried to talk with my banker about our finance minister's concept of "reducing the new debts" concept, but somehow he did not want to follow the argument in my case <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />)

One of the wiser ones (Manfred Rommel, ex-mayor of the city of Stuttgart once said in the city paliament:
Saving means not spending money you have. In our case however we are talking about spending money we do not have. In the language of modern mathematics of quantities: If you take 300,- cash out of a pot containing 100,- you must first return 200,- to have nothing in it.

Statesmen (= thinking of the next generation) seem extinct and politicians (= thinking of the next election) seem galore. Everybody and his brother cry for subsidies from the state (or "society"!) to preserve their status quo or traditional, but out-lived, concepts.

Arguments are invited to the following questions:

1. What are the areas of responsibility the spending of the taxpayers (= everybody's) money by the government should be limited to?

2. What if government administrations, within the limits of their responsibilty, were run as a business profit center, and any subsidy would have to only come out of previously earned profits on the basis of a majority vote?

{Note - the argument should be on the idea as such, not on the possibility or impossibilty - specifically, wether it is a worthwhile goal, not how to reach it, that would be a different issue}