Implementation
see also: transition

 


Nic Tideman: Basic Tenets of the Incentive Taxation Philosophy
The Importance of Constitutional Change
One important way of seeking to ensure that a new proposal that disappoints some persons is not selfishly motivated is to require the proposal to clear not just the hurdles for new legislation, but the higher, more elaborate hurdles for constitutional amendments. It is an unfortunate fact that legislative processes are all too often dominated by well-organized special interests.

The constitutional amendment process, on the other hand, requires such broad consensus that domination by special interests is highly unlikely.

We believe that while some steps in the direction of our ideas can be properly undertaken through legislation alone, the full implementation of our ideas should occur through a process of constitutional amendment that would signify a social consensus that privilege is intolerable.  ...  Read the whole article