Curt Doolittle

Theme: Coercion

  • THERE ARE NO NON-MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN THE CONDUCT OF REVOLUTIONS. Your plan is

    THERE ARE NO NON-MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN THE CONDUCT OF REVOLUTIONS.

    Your plan is one of conquest and defense, and if you are successful enough to propagandize then your plan of maneuver, conquest, defense, and exit was successful.

    There are no discounts in war that do not cause loss of capability of soldiers, other than defeating your enemy completely by use of concentration of power, deception, and surprise.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-15 19:38:00 UTC

  • There Are No Non-Military Activities In The Conduct Of Revolutions.

    Your plan is one of conquest and defense, and if you are successful enough to propagandize then your plan of maneuver, conquest, defense, and exit was successful. There are no discounts in war that do not cause loss of capability of soldiers, other than defeating your enemy completely by use of concentration of power, deception, and surprise.

  • “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

  • “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.

  • I have no problem b–ch slapping idiots who socialize on the phone in public pla

    I have no problem b–ch slapping idiots who socialize on the phone in public places; and I understand the importance of taking business calls even when it’s inconvenient. And yes, not only have I been unintentionally loud in restaurants, and yes, at least in the past, I’ve been overloaded, distracted, or clueless enough to be profoundly rude in un-exitable places like airplanes, airports, lobbies and streets outside of restaurants, and yes, I understand third worlders are uncivilized animals who blither endlessly, express themselves loudly, gesture freely, impede people with more urgent matters, treat public spaces like extensions of their favella-hovels, and otherwise soil the the commons with their display, word, and deed. But you know when a fellow anglo saxon acts like one of the underclasses and semi-domesticated animals, it irritates the hell out of me. Thankfully, in my middle age, I’m patient enough to simply, and in friendly manner, remind the individual that he’s unaware that he’s very loud, and that an hour long business and finance call needs be made in a better setting. The difference is that fellow anglo saxons at least apologize for their inconsiderate behavior, instead of look at you cluelessly or get angry for disciplining them.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-14 17:14:00 UTC

  • I have no problem b–ch slapping idiots who socialize on the phone in public pla

    I have no problem b–ch slapping idiots who socialize on the phone in public places; and I understand the importance of taking business calls even when it’s inconvenient. And yes, not only have I been unintentionally loud in restaurants, and yes, at least in the past, I’ve been overloaded, distracted, or clueless enough to be profoundly rude in un-exitable places like airplanes, airports, lobbies and streets outside of restaurants, and yes, I understand third worlders are uncivilized animals who blither endlessly, express themselves loudly, gesture freely, impede people with more urgent matters, treat public spaces like extensions of their favella-hovels, and otherwise soil the the commons with their display, word, and deed. But you know when a fellow anglo saxon acts like one of the underclasses and semi-domesticated animals, it irritates the hell out of me. Thankfully, in my middle age, I’m patient enough to simply, and in friendly manner, remind the individual that he’s unaware that he’s very loud, and that an hour long business and finance call needs be made in a better setting. The difference is that fellow anglo saxons at least apologize for their inconsiderate behavior, instead of look at you cluelessly or get angry for disciplining them.

  • I have no problem b–ch slapping idiots who socialize on the phone in public pla

    I have no problem b–ch slapping idiots who socialize on the phone in public places; and I understand the importance of taking business calls even when it’s inconvenient. And yes, not only have I been unintentionally loud in restaurants, and yes, at least in the past, I’ve been overloaded, distracted, or clueless enough to be profoundly rude in un-exitable places like airplanes, airports, lobbies and streets outside of restaurants, and yes, I understand third worlders are uncivilized animals who blither endlessly, express themselves loudly, gesture freely, impede people with more urgent matters, treat public spaces like extensions of their favella-hovels, and otherwise soil the the commons with their display, word, and deed. But you know when a fellow anglo saxon acts like one of the underclasses and semi-domesticated animals, it irritates the hell out of me. Thankfully, in my middle age, I’m patient enough to simply, and in friendly manner, remind the individual that he’s unaware that he’s very loud, and that an hour long business and finance call needs be made in a better setting. The difference is that fellow anglo saxons at least apologize for their inconsiderate behavior, instead of look at you cluelessly or get angry for disciplining them.

  • Abortion

    Abortion, like all violence, is neither intrinsically good nor intrinsically bad, but helpful or harmful. It is helpful or harmful to the individuals, or helpful or harmful to the polity, or helpful or harmful to mankind. In other words, abortion in the upper 20% is harmful to society and to man, and abortion in the lower 50% is beneficial to society and to man, and for everyone else it’s merely helpful or harmful to the individual. Likewise reproduction in the lower 50% is harmful to individuals, to society, and to man. Reproduction in the upper 20% is helpful to society and to man. And for everyone else, reproduction is merely helpful or harmful to the individual. Really. It’s that’s simple. That’s the answer, and there is no other answer that I know of. It’s not only simple it’s patently obvious. The only reason it’s an even vaguely interesting question is the strange cognitive bias that the question applies equally to all, rather than differently to each. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • “Ukraine’s National Police have arrested several suspects who were illegally pro

    –“Ukraine’s National Police have arrested several suspects who were illegally producing bitcoins at a recreation center of a Ukrainian state institute, according to newly released court documents. Police found that 200 computers had been set up in an unused swimming pool at the Paton Electric Welding Institute’s recreation center to generate bitcoins, the world’s most popular digital money. The investigation became public on Aug. 8 after Kyiv’s Sviatoshinsky District Court published a court decision in the state register of court rulings. In it, the court claims the production of the bitcoins was being carried out illegally, violating several Ukrainian laws. Police tracked down the allegedly illegal bitcoin producer with the help of an SBU security service agent, who “found out the exact location of illegal hardware that was secretly generating digital money, which was later used via payment systems that are unauthorized in Ukraine.” The court claims the suspects had no rights to use the state premises – a swimming pool. They also breached the Law on the National Bank of Ukraine by emitting “substitute money” and forging documents to launder it. Under the law, only the central bank can issue currency in Ukraine. According to the Law on the National Bank, there is only one national currency, the hryvnia, and no other currency or substitute currency can be issued or used as a form of payment in Ukraine. The law does not specify what a “substitute currency” is, however. Neither are there any laws in Ukraine that regulate virtual currencies. The National Bank of Ukraine, however, has frowned at cryptocurrencies, dubbing them “a substitute for real money.” Nevertheless, as there is no official restriction on the use of cryptocurrencies, some Ukrainian companies now accept bitcoins as payment. The value of one bitcoin today is $3,300 (Hr 85,000).”—