what would you do ?
https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/balance-the-california-budget/10983/3
I made a similar topic awhile back, but to reiterate, I’d cut taxes like crazy. I’m unsure on how the budgetting works, but my first targets would be the community colleges. From what I’ve seen first hand and from friends heresy they’ve begun to ratio credits. I know the Cal State system plans to begin rationing the amount of courses next semester, and I suspect the UC system will follow as well. I figure that if I can get rid of the community college system then the drones of students who have no real interest in academia will be forced to enter the work force (as they were only able to take this two year stint because of subsidies), and the remaining capital can be used to set up for-profit colleges; most likely trade schools.
Trying to get rid of the minimum wage would be my second action. This action would be harder to implement, but I think I could get away with it if the Governor and President have their attention elsewhere.
what about the DWP ?
Tackling on the Department of Water and Power would be beyond my capabilities as the Colorado River debacle would no doubt be brought up, and so I’d have to deal with buruecrats from elsewhere. Like I said in my previous post, I would attempt to get rid of the los angeles community college system, because as mayor I would doubtfully be able to gather the powers needed to confront the UC/CSU systems without finding myself in a battle with other state entities. Same concept here, I could try to break the monopoly over utilities, but I fear, at least in the case of water, this would simply cause another state/city to gain this previous status of monopoly.
I think setting up a free trade zone around the Los Angeles-Long Beach Port might be feasible as Mayor, but I’m unsure.
Compulsory Austrian Economics classes. From comics like “How an Economy Grows” for elementary school to comprehensive “Human Action” study and retelling in high school, practical agorist entrepreneurship courses, libertarian fiction in the literature classes. Propaganada is the tool of the winners, we must not be afraid to play dirty.
would you end zoning laws and end earthquake building regulations ?
for k-12 what about LAUSD would you privatize the entire school system ?
would you propose special economic zone status for los angeles county ?
would you guys deal with unions and fire them
You’re joking about the compulsory Austrian Economics classes right? No offense, but I fear that, notwithstanding the inner contradictions of trying to advance the case of liberty by using coercion, if that occured we’d quickly find not ‘pure’ courses in austrian economics, but a chimera form of it. I can already hear chants of “But even Hayek abandoned the gold standard”. It is better for us to remain in the fringe of the economics community and remain true to our teaching than for us to ever compromise and lay in bed with the State or any of its dogs.
As for privatizing school, eh.. I don’t like that wording. it implies that children ought to go to school, when there are several cases when children would be better off in different arrangements. I’m speaking of becoming apprentices, home schooling, or directly entering the unskilled labor force. Should people, namely parents, prefer to send their children to schools then I am without doubt that the market will supply them. Let us not ‘privatize’ schools, but simply destroy the current government policy of “compulsory and free”, to take a leaflet from Rothbard, education.
Edit: In regards to zoning and building codes, I would do away with them as much as I could within my practical powers. If I had the base support of enough people I’d take the bold step of unilaterally removing federal codes on the area citing that the U.S. Constitution granted no such powers to Congress. I’m sure a legal battle would ensue but it’d be worth a shot.
As with the privatization of schools, I’m a bit worried about ‘firing unions’. As the mayor of Los Angeles I have no authority to do so. What I would do is remove union privildges under the law. Whether Unions could continue in existence is up to them and their employers.
“As for privatizing school, eh.. I don’t like that wording. it implies that children ought to go to school, when there are several cases when children would be better off in different arrangements. I’m speaking of becoming apprentices, home schooling, or directly entering the unskilled labor force. Should people, namely parents, prefer to send their children to schools then I am without doubt that the market will supply them. Let us not ‘privatize’ schools, but simply destroy the current government policy of “compulsory and free”, to take a leaflet from Rothbard, education.”
oh i agree , that is what i meant of privatization of school
let the parent decide what their child should do and no enforcement of schooling
my bad for misplacing of words