My political ideology - Here is what I think on different issues

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1. Redistribution of wealth

I think the government should redistribute wealth from upper classes to lower classes. Lower classes who cant afford education, food, water, house, medicine, should get them for free.

2. Public schools

I oppose to the idea of public schools. I think private schools payed for by government are better in every way.

3. State regulated economy

I believe that state should not own factories or farms, but should indeed regulate them to create higher quality products, to cut out undesirable production, and create safer work environment.

4. State owned market

I believe the state should buy some products from the market, and then distribute them as needed. State should even act as buyer and seller.
In a way, there should be state owned market where state buys products from producers and then sells them at a lower price than it bought.
State should help buisnesses who cant compete on a private market by buying their products, assuming their products are desirable by the people.

5. Price control

I believe state should not control prices of private buisnesses. Rather, state itself should be run like a buisness.

6. Local governments

I believe that central government should deal with general rules, while local companies should act as local governments who put those rules in effect.

7. Obligation to work

I believe that anyone using government services of free food, healthcare, housing and education should have obligation to work and produce. Refusing to work would mean that those government services are no longer available.
Government should always operate on a principle of "service for service".

8. Trade in everything. Government investment in buisness.

I believe the government's role is that of a trader. Government cannot simply drain economy, but must give something to economy too.
We all know that buisness needs money to be started. Not everyone can start a bigger buisness. But thanks to government sponsoring him, they can.

9. Printing money

I believe in money printing. Every economy benefits from money supply increasing, because that is what allows growth.
To keep the amount of money always the same would mean that any new buisness starting would have to take away money from some other buisnesses on the market. When amount of money increases, so does market. 
It is of no surprise that all big economies print lots of money.

10. Military

I believe that military is a priority. The main priority is to build your country in a way that no one wants to invade it.
This includes keeping neutral relations with all, building a military power so that any invader would suffer greatly, and building "no profit" principle in which invader cannot profit in any way from invasion. Also, building trade so that all countries benefit from being in good relations with your country.
Also, not engaging in external wars. There is no reason to make enemies.

11. Government as a buisness

Government should offer money for services that need to be done.
If government needs someone to manage healthcare, government should hire private companies to work for the government.
If private company gets the job done, it gets payed. If not, then it doesnt get payed.
The competition among private companies working for government would drive progress and keep them in check.
The principle of "citizen report" should be seen as crucial, as citizens are the eyes of the government.
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Hey look, we kind of agree on the second one.
I don't think public schools should be done away with altogether, but they should be a default option that's available if there are no alternatives. An education that can truly be called religiously neutral is hard to pull off, and the current public system is nowhere remotely close to being there, meaning "secularism" as currently defined is a farce. It's state promotion of one POV with profound religious implications, which is fine so long as the state is equally willing to promote over POVs with religious implications. Such as religious schools. Both should be eligible for taxpayer funding.

On #11, I think there's a place for contracting out public functions to the private sector. But I also want some of the reverse: the government being involved in the normal production, acquisition, and sale of consumer products to break up unhealthy monopolies when the markets are moving too slow to help consumers out. Not the usual "we'll do this for free" nonsense but the lowest retail price that can reasonably be sustained without killing the business model.

My thinking is divided into "knee-jerk tribal politics" and "principled ideologies I might espouse in an ideal world if I wasn't knee-deep in tribal politics".
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@Swagnarok
I don't think public schools should be done away with altogether
I think they should be done away with altogether.

Thats mostly because public schools have lazy teachers, and government regulated education.

Teachers dont try hard enough, while blaming student's failure on a student.

I have seen the difference between private and public schools, and difference is huge.

It feels like children in public schools are being robbed of actual education.

Also, private schools compete, where public schools dont give a shit about anything because they are not competing with anyone.
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@Swagnarok
I think there's a place for contracting out public functions to the private sector. But I also want some of the reverse
Government producing something is usually bad.

Thats because in buisness,

If I own a buisness, I make money from it, I do everything to reduce cost, increase earning and innovation.

But if government owns my buisness, unless my wage greatly increases with buisness's success, I have little to no incentive to actually try.
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I will make a really simple way to run a country. I will post it tommorrow.

I think that world deserves to know how to run a country in an easy way that is also the best and also doesnt result in any debt.

Its focused on completely private economy, but with some Socialism that is privately regulated.