How good is the food and respect for need to sleep in the military? How about when it was a conscription military? I think it’s a matter of how easily you can switch to other options, not how low or high status you are.

“Median annual wages of veterinarians were $79,050 in May 2008. The middle 50 percent earned between $61,370 and $104,110. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $46,610, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $143,660.”

from the BLS website

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos076.htm

Now this impractical to say the least.

Now the other “forced” things is practical and effective, thus the vast majority approves and find benefit of the social benefit.

Subsidizing education for the masses, however, brings substantial benefits to everyone.

First schooling and education are not equal. There is little evidence that schooling for the masses, brings significant benefits to everyone. Even less for school beyond a 3 years. Almost all the gains do to schooling are do the signal value.

Certainly we can all agree that at some point more spending on schooling will yield less benefit than cost. To be concrete perhaps we should all give a number of years and amount of spending that we each think is optimal else we cannot have an edifying debate.

I will go first:
I would guess that we would be close to optimal at 3 years of schooling per person and spending about $5,000/year per student.

I think we are asking the wrong questions when it comes to schooling and education.

I could not agree more.

Politics is such a mess because people are trying to mix types of relationship which shouldn’t be mixed. The solution is simple, go through every issue on a case-by-case basis and carefully weigh up evidence until you’ve firmly decided which type of relationship the issue in question falls under. Then apply only that type of relationship to the domain in question – either 100% Socialism (e.g health, environment), 100% Libertarianism (e.g., basic consumer goods) or 100% Authoritarianism (e.g law and order, defence). Don’t mix these three!

Income Tax is a big mistake, there is no need for it. Income taxes should be abolished. The Georgists had the answer: all natural resources should be taken off the market, put under pure (100%) democratic control and rented only rather than owned outright. This would amount to an extended version of Land Value Tax (LVT), which is the only correct way for the government to raise revenues. It is far more efficient than income tax, since there is no drag on innovation, and it doesn’t take from other peoples work. Embyronic forms of Georgist ideas work very well in places such as Alaska and Hong Kong – it is very promising, do the research:

Georgism

You can be sure that a super-intelligence (SAI) would put an immediate stop to the insanity that is the current politics. Income Tax will be abolished at once, issues matched to their correct type of governance and kept sharply separated. No ‘mixed economy’ nonsense allowed!