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Premium Citizenship: A Marketing Plan to Save America.

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Quantum citizens shall be known by the unisex honorific, Mahatma.   Mahatmas enjoy all the privileges and immunities of premium citizenship.   In addition, a Mahatma has the power to issue edicts, within premium-constitutional limits, that all lower citizens must abide.   When you encounter a Mahatma on the street, you must step aside and bow respectfully.   On the freeways you must pull over to let a Mahatma pass.   You will know them by their motorcades.

 

All fees for premium citizenships shall be indexed to the deficit.   When the deficit goes up, so does the membership cost.   That will not only pay down the national debt, but nothing would be more effective in maintaining fiscal discipline.

 

This plan may be bitter medicine to those of us who still believe in equality.   But equality has been a farce for years.

 

The rich already run the show, behind the scenes.   Let's let them do it in public and get a few bucks out of the deal.

 

And selling premium citizenships will only be formalizing what we all know to be the truth anyway:

 

That all citizens are equal, but some citizens are more equal than others.

 

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