"everything currently nationalised to be privitized, including the welfare system ( they are now private companies unfunded by tax)" - so no militrary or privatised security companies?
not mentioning the police system.
"Without regulation of the banks' activities"... how do you ensure they are keeping to the gold standard (because in the 70's the amount of Gold in the US treasury was controled by the government - however banks, and even private groups can effectively print their own money - create internal credit systems which help the flow of trade - which isn't currently regulated, but in your system wouldn't need to be backed by gold.
ow would you deal with Migration of people?
@Perfect state: first natural state versus perfect state is a wasted question: we naturally search for the path of least resistance, naturally try to use our brains to outthink other animals - useful for hunting, or tools use to take make it easier to find cerain foods - we also use our brains to outthink each other, and build systems to prevent destructive behaviour. That is we 'naturally' build societies/communities, develope laws, and try to find the best/easiest way to do things - thus trying to create the perfect state is natural.
@Hobbes/Obiwan: re: "he/I see people as being desire-pursuing machines, heavily amoral or working off constructed moralities that make them feel good to follow, and, in short, people are out for themselves and, at best, those they care about. Thus, with no rules, everyone fights for everything they want, and its nasty, brutish, and just a short life without some sort of government." - humans are capable of selfish and alturistic behaviour, we are also capable of devising systems to prevent/punish undesirable behaviour (such as stopping theives/bandits from stealing food from farmers - which is the basic reason the feudal system developed)
We are also capable of caring for out local community - a large group of ~200 people, most humans today don't live in such a community - they still put care into seeing their local sports team do well, or their nation succeed. Just because the caring mentality doesn't always scale well with societies increasing size (going from a village of 200 where everyone knows everyone else to a city of 2,000,000 where you gian many efficiencies of scale, the ability of individuals to care about their neighbours does not benifit from these eficiencies of scale) Does not mean that these urges don't exist nor that we can't take advantage of them - in the same sense that manchester united take advantage of the support of their fans, or nations states take advantage of their young males to provide defence to their countries.
My perfect state - currently a work in progress.
Free movement of people, perhaps limited by available accomadation and some waiting time to delay the movement of people - thus allowing local areas to prepare for the migration (say on the order of months not decades)
Free education - to a point, which should include reading, writing, arithimatic, statitical reasoning (for threat assesment) information gathering and verificaiton (to allow individuals to figure out what they think is true) computer use (because it amplifies the advantages of reading)
Mandatory civil service ~2 years - to encourage social involvement/responcibility, whether this is militrary/technical service and training which is *pracical* (as opposed to an almost purely *theoretical* learning we recieve in schools) - this could be integrated into schooling, would provide useful skills to the individual and useful services to society - whether that means plumbing/electricioning skills to a city, or militrary service to a nation, or paramedical skills to a region, or water finding and agricultural skills to a rural region; (think of the germans who are forced into the army at 18 and take advantage of their mandatory service by learning to cook properly and then go on to become professional chefs)
Public Investment in science/technology research - because this should be a public policy issue rather than decisions of private companies - like cloning humans which if it was legal would have multiple competing companies which would be capable of creating new organs for you from a clone which you could harvest when needed, and would even take away the need for anti-rejection meds which current transplant patients require.
public/private partnership done right - because i can see it done wrong in Ireland in some places. Essentially Public investment into infrastrucure (capital investment - thus effectively siding with the communists on who 'owns' the capital) while renting that infrastructure out to private companies (thus taking the capitalist/adam smith approach to encouraging competition and the running of society)
A national voting system to directly elect politicians based on party not local area (unlike the current irish system which encourages people to vote for who they know, and who promises to work for their local community) - one which allows all 'citizens' to vote, but does not require them to - one which upon failure to achieve a certain minimum percentage of the citizens/eligible voters (say 80%) to vote for a cetain position leaves that position empty until a new vote is called for (leaving all current policies in place - policies which should be publically available for free - policies which are implemented by public servants who are not elected, and thus not accountable to anyone but the public and effectively unfire-able with someone elected to be their boss.)
Free health-care for all, paid for by all those who earn - i can't think of a good way to encourage competition between health care professional without leading to worse inefficiences, lies and reputations ruined and individuals losing out - but allowing for the creation of some more efficient system if possible - perhaps take the nordic model as they seem to have the best health care in the world.
An independant judicary, not politically appointed, which is required to interpret the law (and thus allowing for the possibility that the legistative branch is currently unocupied) free representation before the law, assumption of innocence until proved otherwise, no capital punishment - no law firms going looking for accidents which they can sue for; if possible a simpler legal system which reduces the neccesary training to become a lawyer to ~2 years.
Freedom of religion, freedom of collective action, freedom of movement of people and goods, freedom of speech - while consiering it illegal to encourage other to break the criminal law (only criminal law to completely free advocates of reforming civil law - but i'm not sure myself what the distinction between criminal and civil law is, still i want a legal system which is simpler)
Freedom of information - access to public account, it is the freedom of the internet which prevents a 'big brother' society, and i believe that this must continue.
more freedom and responcibility for youth based on competency - so freedom to choose what subjects they take in school, and at what level - the aim being to increase maturity of individuals by making responcibile for their actions at a younger age - to varying degrees - eligibility for voting based on citizenship testing - which can be taken at any age over 12. Non-citizens shall be treated equally before the law but may be given certain opt-outs, as they clearly don't want to be involved in how society runs, they may aswell be be given the freedom to leave - including setting up their own community/commune/free city-state as desired (with perhaps a requirement that they still collect and share the same census data - to avoid people taking advantage of being in both systems - but that's a farily trivial task with modern technology, perhaps not trivial if you need backwards compatibility and re-training of the staff who run these systems... but it is trivial if you are building a new prefect society.)
Privatisation of services other than health, education, and justice and defence.
Heavy taxation of the super rich (~top 20% of earners) with large tax credits given to encourage them to decide how their money is spent to benifit society (so charitable donations, basically incentive for them to become involved/invested in social/community groups) - complete transparency on the spending of both government and these 'charitable' donations, so reporters/members of the general public can judge for themselves whether 'public' spending is being used effectively.
What the heck??????
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