Right now, the ratio of maximum to minimum income in the US, considering only people who "work" full time is about 100,000:1. Do you consider that reasonable? desirable? productive? I don't. 10:1 might be reasonable, and I'm sure that is achievable in a socialist environment too. I think that gambling is a poor excuse for working and that it is detrimental to society as a whole and certainly shouldn't be rewarded. I should also point out that wealth is distributed even more unequally than is income, and that fact is included in my objection.

I don't favor anything being done at the state level because I don't believe there should be states, at least as they are currently constituted. They are nothing but the untidy remnants of an uneven and random history of expansion and conquest. I would favor a national government with a unicameral legislature divided into perhaps 1000 equal area districts which are drawn as hexagons on an equal area projection of the country (separate projections for Hawaii and Alaska, of course). The boundaries would be fixed permanently with the vote in the legislature scaled to the population of each district. I would favor a government service center in each district, as close to the center as is practical. Laws would be national only - no local laws. I know that is a little long as an explanation of my desire to abolish states but I didn't want to leave my viewpoint unexplained.

I believe that, political rhetoric aside, the majority of the population prefers security to risk. I do not think the current system supports what I believe to be the reality.