If you owned a new country, name it and give it a basic constitution

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Marks said:

- Government responsibility limited to firefighting, police, national defence, and the courts.

- Health care 100% private

- Schools are privately run, but government funded under a school voucher system. More emphasis on real world skills, less on complicated maths/sciences that you'll never use unless you choose to become an engineer/scientist. 

- University/College 100% private

- Military policy? We will NEVER invade another country or intervene in another nation's affairs. Our military is 100% for DEFENCE. 

- Roads are government owned, but all road work contracted out to private companies. i.e. No lazy ass city workers. 

- No welfare, no social security, no employment insurance, no social assistance

- No stupid regulations on businesses or forcing them to change the way they are run. If the public doesn't like the way a business operates then stop fucking shopping there, we aren't going to force them to change the way they run so you like it better. I'm talking about things like wheelchair ramps here, if a business doesn't way to pay to put in a ramp then don't make them...but they will lose the business of all handicapped people as their punishment. 

- Gold/silver backed currency, we will not have a shitty fiat currency. 

- No corporate taxes, no tarriffs, extremely minimal income tax, an extremely low sales tax (like 1 or 2%)

- Balanced budget amendment built into our constitution, we will NEVER run a deficit on purpose

- Marijuana is legal for recreational use and can be sold at convenience stores. Will be treated no differently than tobacco. 

- All firearms are legal. Anyone can buy any gun, but most possess a government issued firearms licence. The licence itself is free, but you will have to pass strong background checks and a suitable safety/training course which will obviously cost a bit of money since someone must run it. 

- Carry and conceal is legal for anyone, nothing more than the aforementioned firearms licence is necessary. The only regulation I will put on firearms is a 30rd magazine is the largest you can have for FULLY automatic weapons. No bigger magazines or drums for assault rifles...but they are okay for semi-automatic rifles. 

- No minimum wage. The market will determine the wage level based on supply and demand. 

- No foreign aid. How is it constitutional to forcibly take money from people and then give it to another country? If a private individual wants to donate then good for him, but the government won't give away money.

- Highway speed limits would be a provincial issue I guess...but it would be strongly recommended that they be something like 120km/h on single lane highways and on multi-lane highways it can be 140km/h or whatever. None of this bullshit 100km/h we have in Ontario now. 

- A better legal system. No bullshit loopholes that let murderers go free. Say evidence is illegally obtained without a warrant that proves beyond a doubt that someone is the murderer...he will still be charged, but since the evidence was obtained illegally the police officer(s) who found the evidence will lose their jobs and face charges for going around the law. I think that's as fair as possible, killers should not get off free for something like this. 

This.