Journal+1+-+Peter+Lee

9/5/08

Pretend you are starting your own country. What kind of government would you have? What's important in government?

If I started my own country, I would have a democracy, but a different type of democracy. In my type of democracy, the presidents, or leaders, would have more power than they do today, almost to a point of dictatorship. The leader would be very powerful, but he wouldn't have control of the army, unless there was a war. This way, the leader can't take over the country even if his 5 year term ends.

The important aspects in my government would be equity for everyone. Everyone would get free or heavily discounted health insurance, and I would try to run it sort of a bit like a communist country. The poor would be taxed less, the middle class about the same, and the rich would be taxed much more than today. In today's world, the disparity between poor people and rich people is increasing, which is a bad idea. So, in order to narrow that gap in disparity, I would probably devise some sort of plan to keep that range to a relatively low level.