We are the institute for vote sizing. Vote sizing is not about giving you a handout. It is not about giving you access to better education, offering you clean water, or ridding your streets of crime and drugs. Vote sizing cannot does not stop the fighting or the unscrupulous people from wreaking havoc on your economy. All Vote sizing offers are the tools that will enable a society to find harmony and root out corruption. It is time to stop looking upwards for answers - the answers lie within us. If we do nothing, if we don't change, if we don't evolve, we cannot expect the people who lead to change.

How many politicians have promised to make your town, your region, your country more prosperous and more powerful? How many business men and women have told you that with more prosperity comes more power? For most people, the answer is every single one of them.

Now lets think about that for a second (more power and more wealth). Where is all the power coming from? Is it unlimited? Unlikely. How about the wealth? Is that unlimited? Is there enough so we all can own mansions and drive hummers and fly around the world? Probably not. So what does it mean then, to have both? If power and wealth are finite it likely means that someone else has neither. In a society where some or few people possess both power and wealth while others possess neither, Vote sizing defines this as corruption.

When a teacher teaches you how to be rich and powerful, they are teaching you corruption. When a media glorifies someone who is wealthy and powerful, they are glorifying corruption. When you seek with all your heart to be rich and powerful, you are seeking corruption. Because there is only so much wealth and power to go around. On the flip side, suppose I ask you to choose between wealth and power, if it could be done. What do you think of that choice? Which would you prefer? Which would you have preferred 5 years ago? Which do you think your parents would prefer, or your neighbors? Or foreigners?

Imagine a world where people could make this choice. Or better yet, what if we all had to choose? If you think making people choose between how much of each they need wealth without having both is a good idea then you will like vote sizing. If you think some people deserve neither wealth nor power, and some people deserve all, then you will not like vote sizing. Vote sizing simply put promotes using computers to give people who need it (meaning the poor, working and middle-class people) a larger vote than the people who prefer using money to get by.

When we ignore the perils of concentrated wealth and power, we open the door to corruption on many levels. Politically, corruption has wealth structures working to undermine our vote, before during and after elections, both legally and illegally. The tyrants toolbox includes devices such as local and gerrymandering (districting), partisan recalls and impeachments, coerced referendums, payola politics, dumbed down debate, pork peddling, shadowy appointments and nominations, undermining opponents, steering nominations, foreign meddling, stealth and lies, criminal corrosion, dirty tricks and smear campaigns, vote buying, voter intimidation, election fraud, and more.

The troubles don't end there, though. Once the political machinery has been subverted, the judicial system falls without much of a push. Then we face brutality, and all that it brings with it: organized and corporate crime, teflon bullies, martial law, war and it's profiteering, fear mongering, nuclear threats, bribery, police, prisons, soldiers: willing and unwilling, breakdown in oversight, governmental bodies, power vacuums, property crime and fraud, privacy violation, violent crime, kidnapping, war, fear and terror. Without the rule of law being applied properly, the economy gets overrun with crooks who create a 21st century, bottom-up, caste system of an iron-age (the bottom) with refugees, internally displaced peoples, homelessness, and organized labor, a petroleum-age (the middle) made up of bribes, nepotism, and pollution and an information-age (the top) comprised of lobbyists, revolving doors, unfair subsidies / loans / trade / aid, and corporate crime.

Now that there's no one accountable for anything, and no way to stop them, we suffer greed: weighted money, inflation, banking and interest, market bubbles, taxes, the black market, bureaucracy, the welfare state, the military state, colonialism by force (chaos and war profiteering), colonialism by influence (unfair loans, trade, aid), and colonialism by disdain (depleting water, forests, grasslands, pastures, air, fuel, germ, and toxins).

According to vote sizing, when corruption takes over, it finds its way into our lives on a personal individual level. Tyranny breeds defeat, brutality breeds abuse, patronage breeds smugness and greed breeds discontent.

However, the conventional wisdom of the day is that the one-person-one-vote system is not that bad, but rather it's a few people (corrupt politicians) or else many people (lousy voters) who are responsible for messing it up. Vote sizing stands this view on its head - in that it refuses to point fingers at specific people and instead looks at that one-person-one-vote system as the problem. But democratic reforms work only when they help get the citizens involved, responsible, and empowered.

Many opponents of vote sizing inversely to income often don't have a problems with vote sizing, per se, but their idea is to use it to size votes in favor of higher tax-payers, police and firemen, people with higher iqs, or other forms of success or credentials, in order to put more power in the hands of those who are responsible and deserving. This idea goes all the way back to Plato's Republic and philosopher kinds. The version of vote sizing promoted by the institute of vote sizing takes a different turn, in that it simply wants to favor people who need the power and puts it faith in the human nature available found in people who have very little else.

The point is that without an empowered citizenry, there is no end to how much we can make each other suffer. Our vote is no less than our voice. Corruption occurs when wealth interests get in the way of that voice and manipulate it to serve other interests than our own. Vote sizing separates wealth from power at the personal level, where it matters to people, and thereby cuts out the problem at the root. It follows in a long line of democratic evolutions and represents the kind of changes needed in order for us to all live together. If nothing else, at least it can stimulate conversation in a way that can be understood, explained and analyzed by all.

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