Part I: Foundations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The state
2.1 Understanding VoTa
2.2 What VoTa Opposes
2.3 Liberty
2.4 Comparison to neoliberalism
2.5 The state without political government
2.6 Fixing anarcho-capitalism
2.7 Bridging capitalists and socialists
2.8 Does wealth tend to concentrate?
2.9 Immigration
Chapter 3: Free markets versus democracy?
3.1 Division of labour
3.2 The democratic pressure for redistribution
3.3 The instability of interventionism
3.4 The gold standard and democracy
3.5 Globalisation and democracy
3.6 Cronyism: the common enemy
3.7 The VoTa solution
Chapter 4: The Non‑Discrimination Principle (NDP)
4.1 Equality before the law
4.2 What the NDP allows
4.3 The NDP as a stabilising constraint
Chapter 5: Consequences of the NDP
5.1 No tyranny of the majority
5.2 No state-enforced segregation
5.3 No disincentives to work and save
5.4 People can discriminate
5.5 No monopolies
5.6 The NDP collapses complexity
5.7 NDP implies tax choice
5.8 NDP implies no political government
5.9 No discretionary enforcement
5.10 No targeted subsidies, incentives, or penalties
5.11 No identity‑based or circumstance‑based legal categories
5.12 No progressive or bracketed taxation
5.13 No zoning or land‑use discrimination
5.14 No targeted welfare or social programs
5.15 No identity‑based political representation
5.16 No selective emergency powers
5.17 No selective access to justice
5.18 No cronyism
5.19 The NDP implies a free market
Part II: Laws
Chapter 6: Rule of law
6.1 Only Persons bear legal responsibility
6.2 Every business has one owner
6.3 Worker cooperatives without shared ownership
Chapter 7: Regulations
7.1 Bureaucracy in Australia
7.2 Hong Kong's free-market growth
7.3 Measuring regulation in the United States
7.4 Jet engines: regulation and the design space
Chapter 8: Property rights
Chapter 9: Intellectual property
Chapter 10: Illicit Drugs
Chapter 11: Punishment
Chapter 12: Judiciary System
Chapter 13: Surveillance
Part III: The Economy
Chapter 14: The Free Market
Chapter 15: Monetary system
15.1 Commercial banks
15.2 Private currencies
Chapter 16: Commerce Account and Transaction System (CATS)
16.1 Predica data model for CATS
Chapter 17: Tax
17.1 Tax rates
17.2 Central Bank Payment System
17.3 Private C-accounts
17.4 Refunds
17.5 Death, incapacity and abandonment
17.6 Tax choice
17.7 Gifts, Inheritance, and Dependent Allowances
17.8 Product Categories
17.9 Supply Chains
17.10 Compatibility Relation
17.11 Tax evasion avoidance
17.12 Allocation of tax to public services
17.13 Consumption tax is not regressive
Chapter 18: Foreign trade
18.1 Purpose-specific foreign-trade intermediaries
18.2 Ensuring consumption tax is paid
18.3 Foreign travel
18.4 Foreign investment
18.5 Foreign remittances
Chapter 19: UBI
19.1 Unconditional welfare
19.2 UBI determination and formulas
19.3 Comparison with the Australian Government
19.4 Preventing poverty and welfare exclusion
19.5 Wider effects of the UBI
Chapter 20: Economics
20.1 Inflation
20.2 Employment opportunities without formal qualifications
20.3 Predictability and stability
20.4 Austrian economics and VoTa
20.5 VoTa versus Modern Monetary Theory
20.6 The origin of money
20.7 Commercial banks and private money creation
20.8 The boom causes the bust
20.9 Richard Werner
20.10 Modelling VoTa as a dynamic monetary system
Part IV: Democracy and Governance
Chapter 21: Direct versus representational democracy
21.1 Jordan Peterson on democracy
21.2 Information complexity
21.3 Subjective values vs objective outcomes
21.4 The people should have the final say
21.5 Problems with representational democracy
Chapter 22: Initiatives
Chapter 23: Voting
23.1 Voluntary voting
23.2 Amendments to the constitution
23.3 Competence check
23.4 Capture by criminal organisations
23.5 Score voting
23.6 Avoiding the tyranny of the majority
Chapter 24: Emergency Governance
Chapter 25: Proxies
Part V: Public services
Chapter 26: Contracts
Chapter 27: Funding
Chapter 28: Employment guarantees
Chapter 29: Procurement
Chapter 30: Competition
Chapter 31: Defence services
Chapter 32: Judicial services
Chapter 33: Portals
Chapter 34: Solving the Economic Calculation Problem for public service
Chapter 35: Communal Centres
Chapter 36: Child care
Chapter 37: Public services model
Chapter 38: Failure
Part VI: Predica data model
Chapter 39: Introduction
Chapter 40: Time
Chapter 41: Person
Chapter 42: Denomination
Chapter 43: Account
Chapter 44: Loans
Chapter 45: Purchases
Chapter 46: Escrow
Chapter 47: Assets
Part VII: Implementation
Chapter 48: Online Portals
Chapter 49: Robustness and security
Chapter 50: Adoption
50.1 Principles
50.2 Incremental transition to privately operated public services
50.3 Monetary-system conversion
50.4 In-place monetary-system conversion
50.5 Legacy central-bank transition
50.6 Tax-system conversion
50.7 Transition from means-tested welfare
50.8 Phasing out discretionary political power
50.9 Education and public understanding
50.10 Financial transition risks requiring further work
Chapter 51: Adoption through coexistence
51.1 World-wide coexistence
Chapter 52: Adoption through territorial expansion

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