[governance] Rupert Murdoch Says Businesses Should Have A Larger Say in Public Policy

[Jefsey]

At 02:36 18/07/2014, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
> > "The trouble, I find, is usually unions represent hundreds of
> > thousands of voters whereas a business represents just one."

Well, this is a good idea.

When businesses are companies of people, they do vote through their 
people. When business become coporations of stockholders they should 
vote through their tax contributing stockholders. One might also 
compute the average citizen tax contribution and for business related 
issues each corporation would have as many votes as they paid average 
tax contributions. Them to chose in which country they want to pay 
taxes and run business. The Public Debt issue is also due to the "inversion".

Now, there also is the case of non-profits whch should receive a vote 
per voluntary member.

Or businesses might also this way elect the "Shop", aside of the 
"Senate" and the "House" and the whole Congress must approve the 
laws. Then I think in entire fairness, since kds are consumers, 
parents should also be proxy voters for their kids for the civil chambers.

jfc









> >
> > Murdoch said business had a role to play in shaping public policy
> > in a democracy.
> >
> > "If we feel we have a contribution to make to the debate we should
> > do so. Certainly my newspapers do so every day and we far from
> > regularly win the argument.
> >
> > "It's very important that, if we live in a democracy, with real
> > entrepreneurship, you've got to have a world of ideas to debate."
> >
> > Murdoch said businesses should be involved in shaping public policy
> > and also suggested governments needed to loosen constraints on
> > business.
> >
> > "You should be leaving the public, by the normal processes of
> > demand, to provide business with the opportunities to get on with
> > life and get the governments to take a back seat," he said.
> >
> > The B20 is a meeting of 400 business leaders from the world's
> > leading economies, gathered in Sydney to provide a list of
> > recommendations to the G20 group of government leaders when they
> > meet in Brisbane in November
>
>[/snip]
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