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What is a solution and what is a problem? These are important questions. The answers tell us what has merit. If we do not know what a solution is, how do identify a problem?

Apriorian Metaphysics believe a solution is something we can have faith in. If no one believes in it or has faith in it, it is not a true solution. It is what we believe in that gives us our reality. 

For every solution there is a confirmation and a reassurance of faith. Solutions reduce fear because a solution reduces uncertainty, strengthening faith. The desire of a logical person is always to invest more in what produces faith. We feed what has value to us. Value is another form of faith. 

Investment adds equity or value, to assets. Investing is an activity driven by faith.

Consumption linked to maintenance of what we value, is a form of investing. We must invest in the upkeep of what we value. But at some point, maintaining what we have lost faith in, is not a wise use of resources. 

Apriorian Meritocrats consider investing to be an exercise in faith. Secularists favor immediate gratification over deferred pleasure. They have little or no faith in the future.

• Meritocrats prioritize investment over consumption and faith over fear.

• Meritocrat communities make investments universally available.

• Meritocrats invest in communities of faith to build up places of faith as a work of faith.

Consumerism is a social problem because it focuses spending on immediate gratification with low or zero rates of investment. Subsistence cultures are consumer cultures, because the focus is on immediate gratification. Investment, as much as exists, is in the good will of the tribe.

The expectation is that if the tribe member distributes a surplus to the tribe; the tribe will distribute any surplus back to him, in times of need. However, in times of universal shortages the lack of preparedness for an uncertain future has serious consequences.  

Consumption is not the same as consumerism. Consumerism is consumption that replaces investing.

The fact that this world offers a choice between consumerism and property accumulation does not make either response the correct one. The Bible tells us that accumulating property is not the right response to the problem of risk. But riotous living, as portrayed by the prodigal son, is not a wise path to follow, either.

Meritocrats prioritize investment over consumption. Consumption is considered a form of investing when it leads to property improvements. We do not accumulate property so much as add value to it. We do not need ten houses we need one ideal home.

Meritocrats policy puts more power into the hands of the property improver and less in those who only seek to accumulate more of the same thing. A Meritocracy will:

• Reduce taxes on property improvements.

• Increase the rate on passive income.

• Increase the capital gains tax.

• Eliminate income tax.

• Fund the establishment of Sovereign Tax Shelters. 

Consumerism is the consumption of present output. Debt is consumption without payment. It is a symptom of freeloading. The debtor is a free rider.

The rise in debt reflects the increase in consumerism. The Timocrat Party not only pledges to eliminate debt but the basis on which it is created.

Our three-part platform pledges to 

1. Ban unearned income.

2. Create a new, equity-based currency that cannot be inflated or exploited.

3. Return all asset-based currencies to issuer, removing debt. 

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Freeloading is the premiant evil.  Satan created freeloading not God, this puts outside of Gods Kingdom. 

We do not own what we did not create. No one can justify taking what others created without eliminating their rights. This is why one will never hear anyone claim no one has a right to their personal possessions. If they did they would even endanger their right to life.

Apriorian Meritocrat protects creator rights. We have a right to what we create but we have no claim to anything created by others. This goes for the natural world as well as the things created by human beings. This is why Jesus told the rich young man to sell all he had and give the proceeds to the poor. He had no right to these assets and to possess them meant he had no faith in his fellow Christians. He may have been going through the motions, but his heart was far from God.

The rich man cannot get to heaven because his possessions are a measure of his lack of faith.

It is important to understand freeloading has been with us since the dawn of time. It is even more important to prevent mankind from freeloading off of God as it is to stop freeloading of what belongs to us.

God created assets. Man creates equity which is the value we add to assets. The value belongs to us but the assets never do. We are permitted to own personal possessions as this is an acknowledgement of our humanity. But we ought never to own commercial assets or things we do not need for personal use.

To end freeloading all ownership that is not personal, will be eliminated. A Meritocrat Government will prevent freeloading by:

• Removing all commercial and unused assets from private, semi-private and public individuals and agencies.

• All assets to be held in trust by the community for future generations.

• We pay for all work done and all donations given with an issue of equity deposited into the appropriate account. 

Homelessness is a symptom not a disease. It cannot be solved by spreading the disease to more and more people, but that is what the world seems to do to address homelessness and the other social problems, this world creates. It creates them then does what it did to create them as a way to solve the problem.

What we mean by this is that the lack of homes is simply the result of too few people building homes. The problem cannot be fixed by parties that do not address this problem head on. The problem of homelessness cannot be fixed indirectly. Only by transferring people away from parasitic activities such as politics to building homes, can we fix the problem.

The Meritocratic Program:

• Removes people from non-accountable positions.

• People doing jobs that do not produce real measurable value are transferred to trades.

• Everyone is made accountable for what they do or do not do.

• We systematically weed out freeloaders’ and free riders.

• Our policy is, zero parasitism, this will build more homes.

Inflation is a consequence of free riding. It has to do with money only in the sense that asset-based currency permit free riding. All free riding is a form of living without producing value sufficient to liquidate your costs. 

There is a concept referred to as having money work for us, or unearned income. It is considered investing, where a rich person will use his surplus funds to invest in a money-making enterprise and then live off the avails. 

He is often not the person doing the work or running the company. He invests and as a condition of his investment, he becomes entitled to a percentage of the company’s income for the duration of that company’s operational existence.

Inflation can be eliminated by eliminating free riding. Money declines in value because more of it is chasing a pool of goods than ought to be. Though this is largely a symptom of people getting paid who have produced nothing of value, equal to their pay. Otherwise, there would be no inflation. Money only loses value when given to free riders and freeloaders.

The Apriorian Meritocrat Party pledges to provide a currency that cannot be hijacked by fraudsters and scammers posing as investors. We consider investors to be those who advance sweat equity not those who leverage wealth from the productive sector through fictitious forms of money.

An Apriorian Meritocrat promise to provide:

• An inflation-proof currency backed by equity, not created from assets.

• An equity account to all members and participants.

• Accurate accounting that properly assigns to the productive sector the full value of what they produce.

• The abolition of all asset-based currencies. whether gold bullion, fiat notes or bank credit accounts.

• The legalization of prefers accounting to ensure cash-based accounting becomes the standard.

Injustice is an unreconciled account. Every injustice creates a liability. Every liability is an asset under dual claims. The Dual Doctrine of Power, known as might makes right and the end justifies the means, is an example of a system that does not understand or respect ownership.

We own only what we create. We have no claim on anything created by someone else, this includes the natural world, which was created by God and which no one claim was created by them.

Either we own only what we create or we live by the Dual Doctrine of Power in which if you have the means to do it, you are justified.

Might makes right is what justifies the law. The lawmaker has the means and power to make and enforce the law and so claims the right.

Meritocrats abjure the use of law and power. We govern by faith.

We cannot have faith in God if we lack faith in each other. The only path to this kind of faith is to know accounts will be reconciled.

 Apriorian Meritocrat Party utilizes the jurisprudence of reconciliation. 

• The harmed initiates reconciliation by approaching the accused with his or her concerns and means to reconciliation.

• If this is insufficient, the plaintiff returns with one or two friends to restate his case and hear the defence in front of witnesses. 

• If reconciliation is not achieved a Council of Justice is convened to hear the case in front of all interested parties, including all witnesses.

• The count hands down its steps to reconciliation.

• If these steps are not taken within the specified time the accused is ostracized and ultimately expelled from the community.

Regardless of whether you are a secularist or Christian, we are compelled to acknowledge mankind had to have originated in a small part of the globe. Therefore, regardless of where you live you and your ancestors migrated. Migrants have become not just a problem but a divisive one.

However, the basis of the pro-migrant argument is self-defeating and oxymoronic. It is argued that because we all were from somewhere else no one has a right to restrict the movement of people. But the fact that restriction did not previously exist or not implemented, this sets the precedent for migrant policy.

This reference to the common law is a British Tradition and since British Tradition stresses the sanctity of one’s home and homeland, arguments based on migration patterns prior to widespread settlements is inappropriate.

The right to enter a house for sale does not remove the right of the new owner to lock his doors against all those who he does not wish to have access to his home.

There are several arguments made to justify migrants. These can be broken down to three defences. the at-risk justifier, the argument that all persons are migrants, and the need for more bodies because of an aging population and declining work force.

All of these excuses are coincidentally at odds with environmentalism and our efforts are reducing our carbon footprint. In fact, were we not taking in migrants our carbon footprint would be declining naturally.

You may feel sorry for people who have destroyed their homeland, but it is risky moving them to ours. The fact is we do not owe them a replacement property for the one destroyed. They took out no insurance policy with us.

Even were we to offer help, better to help them where they are at, than move them and start from scratch.

Even were we all migrants or our ancestors were, we did not migrate with any promise waiting for us. Even were we migrants it would still not give others the right to also migrate. We are permitted to shut the door once we have entered our home.

If adding migrants is a solution to our aging population, what is the solution to their aging population? Even if it is a solution for us, what of the places where we take their young men? Who is looking after their aged parents?

The Apriorian Meritocrat Party promises to:

• Stop all migrations other than highly technical, skilled help.

• No purchases of Canadian citizenship.

• Add a cultural conformity requirement to the conditions for citizenship. 

Property crime covers a large swath from graffiti to the willful destruction of what belongs to others. Of course, other parties and politicians think property is physical and property crimes are acts that damage physical property. But this is a sloppy definition, because blowing up a rockface with explosives, could be considered a serious property crime or the activity of a construction company, depending on who owns the property and who is using the explosives.

Property crime is an act that reduces the value of the asset. Crime causes a loss of value. The penalty restores the value. 

The Meritocrat Party will guarantee:

• All costs are paid for at their source by the one who originated the expense.

• No one is permitted to use what is a personal possession without the permission of the owner.

• Use of commercial assets is permitted only if it produces equity. 

• Damage is considered the causing of negative equity.

• If a tree could produce 300 board feet of lumber, its destruction is the destruction of 300 board feet of lumber.

• If stealing results in a loss of value, the penalty restores market value.

• If damage produces an expense, the penalty pays the expense.

• All citizens are accountable for the equity of their community.

• The loss of value not assigned to a malefactor is a loss borne by the community.

• Every Citizen has a vested interest in the welfare and care of the community and may serve as a plaintiff in all cases involving property crimes. He or she has the right and duty to bring an action against anyone damaging, defacing or degrading community property. 

• All citizens have the right and legal obligation to begin judicial proceedings against someone they accuse of a property crime. (See the information regarding this aspect of the justice system).

• Justice consists in the reconciliation of accounts. The person who causes damage is a person whose account is in arrears; justice consists in ensuring the loss is made good by the reconciliation of accounts.

Pollution ought to be considered a property crime though perhaps a passive one. Burning trash that produces noxious fumes has an economic impact on the community. Dumping trash into rivers that flow into the ocean has a global impact. But the solution to pollution is not to externalize it. Not permitting oil wells where you live while buying oil exacerbates the problem by globalizing it. Problems ought always be kept as local as possible.

Pollution is just another social cost created by externalizing costs onto society and future generations.

If the output is harmful, it has not been neutralized by the producer. This can be as simple as throwing one’s cigarette butts on the street to be cleaned up be someone else or left to contribute to pollution and urban blight, or as serious as throwing municipal trash into a river where it eventually finds it way into the ocean.

The Apriorian Meritocrat Party:

• Requires the producer pay the cost of neutralizing negative features.

• The producer of packaging has to make allowances for its elimination without impacting society and future generations.

• Packaging is either an integral part of the product and must be accounted for when pricing a product or unnecessary and needs to be discontinued.

• The goal is always to increase the percentage of our income that goes to investment while reducing the percentage going to consumption.

• Consumption is maintained at a level that maximizes investments.

Poverty always suggests injustice because people are not poor unless someone is rich. The desire for equality is not a denial that different people have different abilities and challenges, it is the recognition we are not so different that natural ability would explain the large differences in outcomes, common in the civilized world.

Indeed, that is the anomaly of poverty. It is largely a problem of civilized society. Civilized persons learned how to gain an advantage over their fellows.

An Apriorian Meritocrat government pledges to end unemployment, inequality, and poverty through the removal of taxation and other regulatory programs that preferences freeloaders over workers. Unemployment is the result of government interference. Governments create and exacerbate power disparities. Power disparities exacerbate whatever natural inequality there is, making it worse.

The Meritocratic program to end poverty consists of:

• Reducing and finally eliminating taxation, so that people who create wealth can use it to purchase goods and services. 

• The economy is an exchange. The Apriorian Meritocratic Party focuses on permitting these exchanges to happen by removing regulatory interference.

• A living wage is made the standard in all sectors of the economy.

• Higher wage demands reflect barriers to entry. A meritocratic government removes barriers to entry to employment other than those which are natural and genetic.

• The establishment of a unit of exchange called a prefer which enables the market to operate free of regulatory interference or the need of it due to power disparities.