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The basic needs of a human being, which today a person
must fight for and request the right to earn a living and cause a
commotion when this right is not afforded him, comprise in essence five
elements: food, housing, clothing, the possibility of educating one`s
children and the possibility of receiving medical attention in the event
of illness. In Hebrew, these five elements may be arranged according to
initials: Mazon (food), Ma`on (housing), Malbush (clothing), Moreh,
(education) and Marpeh (medical care). The `five M`s`.
With regard to all these elements, there exists in every country and in
every period a certain conception of the required minimum. And the duty
of the state, in my conception, must be to provide these to any citizen
who declares that he is in need of them. This is the first of my `laws.`
From this, it must be ensured that the state possesses the possibility
to provide these `five M`s` to all those citizens in need of them. How
will the state acquire this? The answer to this is my second `law`. The
state will acquire this possibility by obligation from the nation, as
today it imposes other taxes and requires that young people serve in the
military.
In my conception, the government will, each year, calculate the number
of individuals to whom the `five M`s` will need to be provided over the
coming period. That is, there will be a need for such and such tons of
food, such and such housing units etc. And to provide this, there will
be a need for such and such money and such and such working hours. And
the state will impose on the citizenry each year the appropriate level
of taxation, or will employ the use of a particular number of private
concerns, or recruit the appropriate number of young people for `social
service`. While I am not a great statistician, I am sure that this will
cost much less than for example the maintenance of an army today costs.
Thus the social question will be adequately addressed.
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