THE BIRTHRIGHT LOTTERY review 3 by SHEWA OTHMAN

looks good!

alex_hay — 2021-02-18 14:52:34 UTC

What social/political/economic events/situations/context were they affected by?

sothm2 — 2021-02-18 15:15:48 UTC

What problem(s) did they want to solve? What did they think was wrong?

sothm2 — 2021-02-18 15:16:11 UTC

What solution(s) did they offer? What did they think would be better?

sothm2 — 2021-02-18 15:16:25 UTC

What structure(s) did they propose?

sothm2 — 2021-02-18 15:16:40 UTC

What principle(s) did they believe in? On what principles/beliefs did they base their political ideas?

sothm2 — 2021-02-18 15:16:53 UTC

Problems

jokul1 — 2021-02-18 15:21:25 UTC

Injustice of birthright citizenship

2021-02-18 15:22:36 UTC

Everyone in society deserves at least equal treatment before the law

Solutions

jokul1 — 2021-02-18 15:23:04 UTC

Redistributing opportunities . Let in the less priviiledged into better countries .

Taxation remedies

jokul1 — 2021-02-18 15:24:52 UTC

For unfairness of birthright lottery , Rich taxed and money given to poor .

2021-02-18 15:25:15 UTC

The principle is well established and widely shared that inheritance should be subject to tax.

2021-02-18 15:27:31 UTC

Shachar’s solution is to send money to the poor of other lands.

Unfairness of birthright lottery

jokul1 — 2021-02-18 15:28:34 UTC

Replacement of birthright privilege

jokul1 — 2021-02-18 15:29:10 UTC

Genuine commitment principle . Commitment through ongoing residence .

Lifeboat exceptions

jokul1 — 2021-02-18 15:31:56 UTC

Equality of access

sothm2 — 2021-02-18 15:38:13 UTC

They have simply won the lottery—the birthright lottery.

sothm2 — 2021-02-18 15:40:26 UTC

The children upon whom citizenship is conferred in this way have done nothing to earn this privileged status

sothm2 — 2021-02-18 15:42:34 UTC

"Shachar proposes the establishment of a “birthright privilege levy,” a tax assessed on the fortunate few born into developed-country citizenship, the proceeds to be redistributed to those we exclude: the numberless wretched of the earth. I have the same rights today as one of 30 million-odd citizens of Canada—to enter and leave, vote in its elections and so on—as I would have had when we were three million."