—“North Korea practices what’s known as destruction of three generations, which is that if you are caught organizing against the regime then not only are you punished, but also your children are punished, and your grandchildren are punished. And that has a very powerful effect on preventing any kind of alternative government from gathering force. And that’s been a frustration to other countries that have tried to promote civil society or dissent of any kind.”—
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“North Korea practices what’s known as destruction of three generations, which i
—“North Korea practices what’s known as destruction of three generations, which is that if you are caught organizing against the regime then not only are you punished, but also your children are punished, and your grandchildren are punished. And that has a very powerful effect on preventing any kind of alternative government from gathering force. And that’s been a frustration to other countries that have tried to promote civil society or dissent of any kind.”—
Source date (UTC): 2017-09-15 20:17:00 UTC
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“North Korea practices what’s known as destruction of three generations, which i
—“North Korea practices what’s known as destruction of three generations, which is that if you are caught organizing against the regime then not only are you punished, but also your children are punished, and your grandchildren are punished. And that has a very powerful effect on preventing any kind of alternative government from gathering force. And that’s been a frustration to other countries that have tried to promote civil society or dissent of any kind.”— -
“Complete amnesty. Open borders. $50 minimum wage. Universal Basic Income. Free
—“Complete amnesty. Open borders. $50 minimum wage. Universal Basic Income. Free healthcare for all. Hate speech laws. 90% tax rates. Let’s do this!”—John Derbyshire
There are 323 Million People
Less than 150M are Taxpayers.
Total Economy is 18.5 Trillion
Total Tax Collection is 6.5 Trillion (35% of the total economy)
Total Tax Collection per Individual is $20,000 per person
Federal Tax Collection is 3.4 Trillion (the rest is state and local)
Total Federal Tax Collection per individual is ~$10,000.
About 45% pay no (income) taxes in any given year.
50% of all income taxpayers (~70-75M) paid 98% of taxes.
Meaning that they paid an average of $45,000 per person(but highly skewed to the top).
The top 1 percent (1.3 million filers) paid a greater share of income taxes (37.8 percent) than the bottom 90 percent (124.5 million filers) combined (30.2 percent).
The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a higher effective income tax rate than any other group, at 27.1 percent, which is over 8 times higher than taxpayers in the bottom 50 percent (3.3 percent).
You know, when the total discretionary tax revenue per person is $3,000 and even under the most aggressive taxation possible, might be $4000, and vast numbers of men are already permanently exiting the labor pool, leaving the lowest labor participation rate in history, I am trying to figure out how the math works. Or rather. I know full well how the math works: it doesn’t.
So if there is any possible way to provide ‘welfare’ (minimum income or whatever) to some part of the population, I don’t know how that’s going to happen.
The postwar period is over and western institutional, intellectual, and technological advances over the rest of the world have been neutralized, and western labor’s advantage has been neutralized by globalism.
Where the hell is this money going to come from? We will all be as poor as europeans for having imported the underclasses of the third world.
ALTERNATE SOLUTION
My solution is much different: and involves eliminating all consumer interest through direct zero interest consumption loans from the central treasury, and direct redistribution of liquidity to consumers in order to manage the money supply (commercial interest rates).
This makes everyone a shareholder in the USA with liquidity and dividends paid directly to the consumer.
In other words, this puts the consumer (citizenry) in competition with the state for profits (taxes), suppresses tolerance for immigration, and produces just about every other good incentive that we can manage.
Source date (UTC): 2017-09-15 08:28:00 UTC
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“Complete amnesty. Open borders. $50 minimum wage. Universal Basic Income. Free
—“Complete amnesty. Open borders. $50 minimum wage. Universal Basic Income. Free healthcare for all. Hate speech laws. 90% tax rates. Let’s do this!”—John Derbyshire There are 323 Million People Less than 150M are Taxpayers. Total Economy is 18.5 Trillion Total Tax Collection is 6.5 Trillion (35% of the total economy) Total Tax Collection per Individual is $20,000 per person Federal Tax Collection is 3.4 Trillion (the rest is state and local) Total Federal Tax Collection per individual is ~$10,000. About 45% pay no (income) taxes in any given year. 50% of all income taxpayers (~70-75M) paid 98% of taxes. Meaning that they paid an average of $45,000 per person(but highly skewed to the top). The top 1 percent (1.3 million filers) paid a greater share of income taxes (37.8 percent) than the bottom 90 percent (124.5 million filers) combined (30.2 percent). The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a higher effective income tax rate than any other group, at 27.1 percent, which is over 8 times higher than taxpayers in the bottom 50 percent (3.3 percent). You know, when the total discretionary tax revenue per person is $3,000 and even under the most aggressive taxation possible, might be $4000, and vast numbers of men are already permanently exiting the labor pool, leaving the lowest labor participation rate in history, I am trying to figure out how the math works. Or rather. I know full well how the math works: it doesn’t. So if there is any possible way to provide ‘welfare’ (minimum income or whatever) to some part of the population, I don’t know how that’s going to happen. The postwar period is over and western institutional, intellectual, and technological advances over the rest of the world have been neutralized, and western labor’s advantage has been neutralized by globalism. Where the hell is this money going to come from? We will all be as poor as europeans for having imported the underclasses of the third world. ALTERNATE SOLUTION My solution is much different: and involves eliminating all consumer interest through direct zero interest consumption loans from the central treasury, and direct redistribution of liquidity to consumers in order to manage the money supply (commercial interest rates). This makes everyone a shareholder in the USA with liquidity and dividends paid directly to the consumer. In other words, this puts the consumer (citizenry) in competition with the state for profits (taxes), suppresses tolerance for immigration, and produces just about every other good incentive that we can manage. -
“Complete amnesty. Open borders. $50 minimum wage. Universal Basic Income. Free
—“Complete amnesty. Open borders. $50 minimum wage. Universal Basic Income. Free healthcare for all. Hate speech laws. 90% tax rates. Let’s do this!”—John Derbyshire There are 323 Million People Less than 150M are Taxpayers. Total Economy is 18.5 Trillion Total Tax Collection is 6.5 Trillion (35% of the total economy) Total Tax Collection per Individual is $20,000 per person Federal Tax Collection is 3.4 Trillion (the rest is state and local) Total Federal Tax Collection per individual is ~$10,000. About 45% pay no (income) taxes in any given year. 50% of all income taxpayers (~70-75M) paid 98% of taxes. Meaning that they paid an average of $45,000 per person(but highly skewed to the top). The top 1 percent (1.3 million filers) paid a greater share of income taxes (37.8 percent) than the bottom 90 percent (124.5 million filers) combined (30.2 percent). The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a higher effective income tax rate than any other group, at 27.1 percent, which is over 8 times higher than taxpayers in the bottom 50 percent (3.3 percent). You know, when the total discretionary tax revenue per person is $3,000 and even under the most aggressive taxation possible, might be $4000, and vast numbers of men are already permanently exiting the labor pool, leaving the lowest labor participation rate in history, I am trying to figure out how the math works. Or rather. I know full well how the math works: it doesn’t. So if there is any possible way to provide ‘welfare’ (minimum income or whatever) to some part of the population, I don’t know how that’s going to happen. The postwar period is over and western institutional, intellectual, and technological advances over the rest of the world have been neutralized, and western labor’s advantage has been neutralized by globalism. Where the hell is this money going to come from? We will all be as poor as europeans for having imported the underclasses of the third world. ALTERNATE SOLUTION My solution is much different: and involves eliminating all consumer interest through direct zero interest consumption loans from the central treasury, and direct redistribution of liquidity to consumers in order to manage the money supply (commercial interest rates). This makes everyone a shareholder in the USA with liquidity and dividends paid directly to the consumer. In other words, this puts the consumer (citizenry) in competition with the state for profits (taxes), suppresses tolerance for immigration, and produces just about every other good incentive that we can manage. -
by Jason Welty The cult of empire extends all the way back to the founding of th
by Jason Welty
The cult of empire extends all the way back to the founding of the nation. As far as I’m aware the US is unique in that it’s the only nation to establish itself as an empire from its founding. Immediately one must develop a characteristic common to irrational beliefs, cognitive dissonance.
Source date (UTC): 2017-09-14 21:24:00 UTC
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by Jason Welty The cult of empire extends all the way back to the founding of th
by Jason Welty The cult of empire extends all the way back to the founding of the nation. As far as I’m aware the US is unique in that it’s the only nation to establish itself as an empire from its founding. Immediately one must develop a characteristic common to irrational beliefs, cognitive dissonance. -
by Jason Welty The cult of empire extends all the way back to the founding of th
by Jason Welty The cult of empire extends all the way back to the founding of the nation. As far as I’m aware the US is unique in that it’s the only nation to establish itself as an empire from its founding. Immediately one must develop a characteristic common to irrational beliefs, cognitive dissonance. -
GERMAN PHILOSOPHY by Daniel Gurpide The more I follow Curt’s posts, the more I r
GERMAN PHILOSOPHY
by Daniel Gurpide
The more I follow Curt’s posts, the more I realize German philosophy is not that ‘great’.
The Greats of German philosophy (Kant-Fichte-Hegel-Marx-Heidegger, I’m leaving Nietzsche outside on purpose, I know) make up a Counter-Enlightenment tradition that ends up being suspicious of science and technology, anti-individualistic and anti-liberal. They all contributed in varying degrees to the authoritarian regimes that developed in the 1900s – the various forms of authoritarian nationalisms, the national and international socialisms, the fascisms – and the cultural catastrophes named ‘Frankfurt School’ and ‘Post-Modernism’.
Kant (the only picture in Kant’s house was a portrait of Rousseau that was hanging over his writing desk) buttressed the pre-modern worldview of faith and duty against the inroads of the Enlightenment: “I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.” (Kant)
Hegel explicitly attacks the entire tradition of logic as it had developed from Aristotle to modernity. He wants to believe in a kind of spiritually-driven, dialectically-evolving metaphysics that cannot be expressed logically. His deeper views are that one’s self is but an aspect of the collective, that the Divine works through collective self-realization, and that the State is the manifestation of the Divine.
Hegel on the beginning of the universe: “So far, there is nothing: something is to become. The beginning is not pure nothing, but a nothing from which something is to proceed; so that being is already contained in the beginning. The beginning thus contains both, being and nothing; it is the unity of being and nothing, or is not-being which is being, and being which is also not being.” This is a forewarning of the worst Heidegger, the ‘nazi’ philosopher par excellence who paradoxically ended up recreating the Jewish cosmogonic myth (Creation ‘ex nihilo’).
The triad Kant-Fichte-Hegel is behind the modern German educational system, still active nowadays: a factory of perfect automata devoid of personality, adept at crushing any signs of individualism. Social conformism explains why today in Germany there is no resistance to the suicidal program implemented by ‘Big Mutti’.
German philosophers are Lutheran pastors in a new garb. All of them, even Marx. Is he German or Jewish? I’m not sure. Isn’t Protestantism another big gulp of Abrahamism? Are Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Heidegger German or Jewish? Is more dangerous the combination of a German philosopher raised in an Abrahamic cult or a Jewish thinker educated in the German school?
Source date (UTC): 2017-09-14 09:01:00 UTC