Draft program of changes for Ukraine by the Free Nation public movement

1. The main value is a human (not a state, nation, or universe).
2. Political, personal, and economic freedoms are a single whole.
3. A person is in charge of his or her own life, health, and property. This is the essence of the principle of self-determination.
4. The state should not protect people from themselves. Life risk management is a personal matter.
5. The state is a set of institutions to protect the life and property of citizens, as well as to realize their rights and freedoms.
6. Functions of the state:
   • ensuring security (internal and external);
   • resolution of disputes, conflicts, and contradictions between citizens and legal entities (judiciary);
   • international relations;
   • functioning of strategically important infrastructure;
   • provision of targeted social assistance.
7. Rule of law: equality before the law; additionally: the introduction of English law institutions, development of private arbitration, implementation of the principles of presumption of innocence, and “no crime without a victim”.
8. Volunteer army as the basis of the national defense system. Development of a full-fledged arms market, realization of the right of every citizen to own firearms.
9. The basis of the economy is private property. It is sacred and inviolable. Property rights may be transferred only as a result of voluntary agreements or court decisions. To achieve this goal, privatization of all resources and assets, except for those used directly in ensuring national security and the vital functions of state institutions, is necessary.
10. Principle of non-interference of the state in the economy: prohibition for the state to engage in commercial activities.
11. Requirements for public administration bodies: full transparency, accountability, audit, no conflict of interest, term limits for positions held.
12. Small government: maximum decreasing of total expenditures of all public administration bodies. Most of the public spending and taxes are at the local level, i.e., in the decentralization regime.
13. Counteracting socialism and populism: introducing a “straitjacket” regime for the state: restrictions on inflation, public debt, budget deficit and the size of state assets. Setting a maximum level of public sector employment.
14. Deregulation, digitalization, an independent judiciary, low, flat taxes, a single flat rate of duty on imports of goods, private property, open competition, and transparency of the state — a sure victory over corruption.
15. Granting amnesty to: 1) citizens for economic crimes; 2) capital without charging a fee/interest, except in cases of treason and undermining the national security system.
16. Introduction of dual citizenship, only with those countries with which the relevant agreements have been concluded. Encouraging and simplifying the acquisition of Ukrainian citizenship, except for citizens from unfriendly countries.
17. Competition of money, “gold standard”, legalization of electronic payment instruments, and open financial market integrated into the global one.
18. Tax system: simple, universal (no exemptions), flat tax rates. Tax bases: 1) retail turnover of goods and services, 2) excisable goods (alcohol, tobacco, energy products), 3) personal income; 4) tax on withdrawn capital for legal entities.
    Capital amnesty – 0%.
19. Open competition: a free market without special tax, customs, credit regimes, preferences, subsidies on an individual or sectoral basis.
20. Free trade: competition in standards of goods and services, voluntary nature of obtaining ISO quality certificates, free pricing. The whole country is a jurisdiction of economic freedom, including a full-fledged market for land and all other forms of capital.
21. The basis of the labor market is an individual contract between an employer and an employee.
22. Solidarity with a person in need through the provision of targeted financial assistance based on clear criteria of need, a flexible labor market, and services of the commercial sector and civil society for retraining and acquiring new skills and knowledge.

* The program is being finalized.