2 – Votes are bought with increases in benefits.
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-30 14:39:46 UTC
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Do I have any economists out there? Please educate me: gimme 3 reasons why #Greece is where it is today. What’s the lesson?
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/615643219225808896
TRADITIONAL FAMILY CENTERED LIFE
Work is Worse Here. Life Is Better Here. Income Does Not Improve Happiness. It Reduces Risk, and Provides Signals. Redistribution of Signals is to do to the gene pool what Keynesianism does to the economy: disinformation.
We have, with our passion for dysgenia, overburdened the planet. With two technologies: antibacterials and hydrocarbons.
Democracy(corporate government) is an objectively dysgenic system of government, and aristocracy (private government) is an objectively eugenic system of government.
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-29 02:59:00 UTC
http://www.moreright.net/preferences-for-redistribution/Three great articles on our ignorance and preferences for redistribution
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-18 11:45:00 UTC
–“The cost of bread and circuses tends only to increase.”-Eli Harman
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-23 09:49:00 UTC
[T]he USA’s budget consists roughly of 1/3 defense, 1/3 mandatory payments (Social Security and Medicaid) and 1/3 discretionary payments (everything else).
We finance 1/3 (the military), and inflate it away. The world pays for our military through indirect taxation on the price of oil bought in dollars. This was the invention that the Nixon administration achieved with the Petro-Dollar and it was how we were able to run up the credit to defeat world communism under Reagan.
So technically speaking, 1/2 is discretionary, 1/2 is for redistribution, and the remainder – the military – is effectively free.
Possessing this knowledge radically alters your perception of the world.
It is why Iran wants nuclear weapons – to control oil, and to create a bourse, and to capture that ability to tax currency for itself.
Sophisticated people in the world are not stupid, nor necessarily selfish. They merely take advantage of stupid people.
[T]he USA’s budget consists roughly of 1/3 defense, 1/3 mandatory payments (Social Security and Medicaid) and 1/3 discretionary payments (everything else).
We finance 1/3 (the military), and inflate it away. The world pays for our military through indirect taxation on the price of oil bought in dollars. This was the invention that the Nixon administration achieved with the Petro-Dollar and it was how we were able to run up the credit to defeat world communism under Reagan.
So technically speaking, 1/2 is discretionary, 1/2 is for redistribution, and the remainder – the military – is effectively free.
Possessing this knowledge radically alters your perception of the world.
It is why Iran wants nuclear weapons – to control oil, and to create a bourse, and to capture that ability to tax currency for itself.
Sophisticated people in the world are not stupid, nor necessarily selfish. They merely take advantage of stupid people.
—“We’ve closed a number of tax loopholes. We’ve increased communal tariffs by six times. We’ve fired 10 percent of public servants,” he said, sighing heavily.
Yatsenyuk said the ultimate goal of enduring the financial pain was to create a country with a clear sense of national purpose.
“A few years ago we had the territory. Today, we have the country. An independent country that is fighting for freedoms and liberties,” he said.”—
Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk
Source date (UTC): 2015-03-29 05:41:00 UTC
Sure, university education should be open to all, and ‘free’ in the sense, that one pays for it entirely from payroll deductions for the rest of one’s working life.
Were this the case, the curriculum at universities would change radically.
At present, we pay for knowingly defective goods, that are unwarrantied, and the state prevents us recourse.
So my solution to the Cathedral is quite simple: eliminate student loans entirely, and require all universities to pay out of payroll deductions. The treasury can provide the interim float – after all: that’s what Keyensians say we can do with money….
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-22 10:47:00 UTC
—“… thinks land tax will reduce urban sprawl. This is not the case.
You will simply give your surplus back to a centralised state apparatus that can only dump goods of little to no utility onto you.. The credit system is centralized in the modern state.”—
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-18 02:10:00 UTC
So why not devolve income taxes to the states. And progressively tax states?
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Source date (UTC): 2015-01-28 02:35:00 UTC