Advantage 24 – National budget equivalent to number of inhabitants

Excerpt from the book »Gradido – Natural Economy of Life«

»With every new invention the masses ask what use it is and they are right to do so; for they can become aware of the value of something merely on account of its usefulness.«   

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German poet and naturalist

Every major company has a human resources budget. We can assume that the costs of human resources for a company with 2,000 employees are twice as high as for a comparable company with 1,000 employees. The human resources budget should therefore increase or decrease in proportion to the number of staff.

We should also expect the same with the national budget. In a country with 200 million inhabitants the national budget should be twice as high as in a country with 100 million inhabitants. Ideally, the government is there for its citizens and the expenditure per citizen should be roughly the same all over the world. Unfortunately that has not been the case to date. There are extremely poor countries and rich industrialised nations. They are all in fact highly in debt and have grave financial problems but that is another topic.

In the Natural Economy of Life 1,000 gradidos are created per citizen per month for the national income. The national budget per person is thus exactly the same for all countries. A mini-nation has just as much money at its disposal per person as a gigantic confederation of states.

How high is the national budget in comparison with present-day conditions? In Germany we would have a state income of just over a trillion gradidos per year. This is roughly equivalent to the amount of the German national budget plus medical and social insurance.