As one Westerner who has practised maritime and commercial law in Shanghai for the past 15 years, I disagree.China has developed a modern body of maritime law, expanded a dedicated maritime-court infrastructure and encouraged a specialist bar of maritime lawyers.
Moreover, whereas the 10% share in 1912 was spent largely on legitimate functions (defense, police, courts, infrastructure), most of the 40% today is spent on illegitimate functions like the redistribution of income, unfunded Ponzi schemes (Social Security), and deeply-larded public employee unions.
According to the California Bar Journal, George has "transformed California's legal landscape," implementing administrative improvements and securing funding to update the courts' physical infrastructure.
Society as a whole is the primary stakeholder; taxes and royalties support all the components of modern society, including courts, education, infrastructure, parks, police, and the armed forces.
Time is also required to build the court and its infrastructure, which means a 10-day window needs to be found.
Lawmakers were forced to make significant cuts in vital programs such as Medicaid, education, welfare, court funding and infrastructure.
"If you want to play tennis here, there is now enough in terms of infrastructure, courts, coaches.
American corporations that benefit from the workforce, infrastructure, courts, markets and national security of the United States of America should not be allowed to avoid their responsibilities.
We the People create the fertile ground -- education, infrastructure, courts, police and military protection, customers, etc. -- for these corporations to thrive and We the People are supposed to reap the harvest.
They are asking us to let them off from paying many of the taxes that sustain the very infrastructure, courts, education system and food safety system that enables them to stay in business.
