muse
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They key is "land reforms". It is time to get rid of the feudal landlords in Pakistan as well.
No it isn't - no more stealing other peoples property.
Dragon, social change is generally preceded by a change in the order of priority we assign to particular values - and the incentives society offers for such a re-ordering.
That these feudals have land is not a problem, that they don't pay taxes, is a problem -- Now if we want these people to expand their holdings to include mechanized, automated industry, we should offer them incentives - if we want them to pay taxes, we should offer them incentives -- You know that these same feudals are also members of parliament or Majlis - So the crooks and the police are basically the same people?? Yes, it's true.
We have done land reform before, all that does is give the Feudal incentives to put the land in the names of tens of his relatives and thereby claiming that he does not own all that land.
But why blame the feudal? He or she is sitting in Majlis because he or she was elected - people voted for him - this feudal is not the source of the problem -
I would offer that it is the difficulty of getting into the economy and the size and complexity of the economy that is the problem - we want more urban voters and we want the rural to follow the urban - but the urban and rural have different priorities, so it will be very slow -- our focus should be on the size and complexity of the economy and the obstacles placed by vested interests to joining the economy - for instance, how difficult it is to register a business or property, the number of "no objection" certificates required, the monopolies in the economy - that's why the reserve governor has been calling for liberalization of the economy -- Once a larger number of persons are making money, they find a political voice and this voice can challenge the no agriculture tax lobby.