I was thinking of starting my own political party just for fun and I can't seem to come up with a name. Thinking about it, I'm not sure what sort of label properly even captures my political beliefs. I'm open to suggestions:
- Dictatorship/Absolute Monarch > Democracy/Republic
- Market Economy > Planned Economy
- Private Property Ownership > Public Property Ownership
- Strict Objective Moral Values Enforced by Government > No Moral Values Enforced by Government
- Racial homogeny > diversity.
- Elitist > Egalitarian
- Patriarchy > Equality
- Military Class Rule > Merchant Class Rule
- Taxes as close to 0% to still maintain society > high taxes
- No welfare state whatsoever > any welfare state
What would you call such politics if you wanted to give it a catchy label?
I agree that "power reveals corruption" rather than power corrupts, but I wholeheartedly disagree with his/your insinuation that raising taxes from 5% to 8% to fund an annual yacht regalia or whatever fun thing he wants is corruption.
If u/RaceCreatesCulture is the absolute monarch, then he owns everything and it is his God-given right to raise funds for his kingdom's needs or wants - and he is the preeminent citizen of that kingdom. After all, a happy king = happy subjects. The only "morality" of concern here is practicality - raising the taxes too high would obviously reduce the subjects happiness and damage the kingdom's finances long-term.
5% is a ballpark, I might raise it to 8% but not because I want yachts but because 5% was in fact too low. I don't think 5% would be too low though and I wouldn't raise taxes lightly. I consider lower taxes better.