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To better pursue solutions, we should better comprehend and prioritize relations among our concerns. Many problems are not that hard to address, once their relations are identified. Until relations are addressed, piecemeal solutions simply cannot work. A boat with multiple holes in its bottom will still sink, even if all but one of its holes is filled. A representative republic sickens into a walking contradiction the more it sinks its middle class. It sinks into despotism pretending to contend for the best interests of its sheep. The national scope of America's problems is less due to intolerance of the hubristic by the humble, modest, and decent than it is to intolerance by the hubristic for the humble, modest, and decent. Less due to common sense of the experienced and insightful than to frenetic fascism of the callow and self professed elite. Less due to advocates of individual responsibility than to advocates of international fascism, coupled with diversions into dopery. The main problem now confronting empathetic humanity consists in clamorings of entitlementarians to force equality in mind and matter upon everyone else, accompanied by outrages against all decency and sustainability. Our problem is not with education, health, or home mortgages. Our problem is with Rube Goldberg styles of centralized regulation of education, health, and housing. Our problem is not to discourage productivity, but to discourage sloth. We fund our Rube Goldberg centralized system of regulation by taxing too much of what we want and too little of what we don't want!
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The idea of a progressive consumption tax fairly cries out from the wilderness! Why hasn't it been paid more attention? Well, until recently, the technology needed to support such an idea was not available. Now it is. Now, the fear is Big Brother. However, Big Brother is already monitoring internet searches, purchases, indeed, our very keystrokes, and soon, our carbon emissions. Big Brother will not be tamed by pretending he's not there or by declining to confront him on his own terrain. We will either have a method for identifying our voters and citizens and for monitoring accumulations of economic activity, or America's identity as a nation will melt into the N.W.O., there to be ruled by international corporatists skilled at diverting attention of sheeple from fleece machines. Technology has gone too far to allow anarchy. Anarchy would only avail a short transition from mass mayhem to despotism.
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Check online for progressive consumption tax aspects in the idea of a Bradford-X tax. Effect: avoid double taxation of income. However, think even further about what could be accomplished with a progressive consumption tax scheme. Samples: Encourage production by those who show talent to produce by not taxing corporate or individual income or investments in production. Encourage cheaper prices secondary to mass production by taxing individual consumption progressively. Discourage people from going into debt for what they cannot afford. Discourage capacity to buy politicians as commodities by constraining corporate lobbying to fixed and highly taxed modes. Do not allow corporations to make political or campaign contributions except as a form of highly taxed consumption. Progressively tax lobbying by individuals as a form of consumption. Discourage rise of despotisms and aristocracies by appropriate use of tariffs and death taxes. Redistribute most taxes to states on a per capita basis. Do tax financial outflows from country; do not tax financial inflows.
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There comes a point where increased resources spent on consuming results in decreased production, such that one cannot consume one's way to riches. One cannot print money to prime the middle class at the front door without availing those who cause the money to be printed to prime themselves at the back door. The proportionate wealth of the middle class cannot be increased merely by inflating money. Instead, the consumptive power of the money itself must be made disproportionally beneficial to all lower classes, by effecting progressive taxes against increasing levels of household consumption.
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To better pursue solutions, we should better comprehend and prioritize relations among concerns. Problems tend not to be hard to address, once relations are identified. Until relations are identified, piecemeal solutions won't likely work. A boat with multiple holes will still sink, even if all but one is filled. A representative republic will sicken into a walking contradiction as it sinks its middle class. It will sink into despotism while pretending to contend for best interests of its sheep. America's problems are less due to intolerance of the hubristic by the humble, modest, and decent than due to intolerance by the hubristic for the humble, modest, and decent. Less due to common sense of the experienced and insightful than to frenetic fascism of the callow and self professed elite. Less due to advocates of individual responsibility than to advocates of international fascism, coupled with diversions into dopery. The main problem now confronting empathetic humanity consists in clamorings of Entitlementarians to force equality in mind and matter upon everyone else, accompanied by outrages against decency and sustainability. Our problem isn't with education, health, or home mortgages. Our problem is with RubeGoldberg styles of centralized regulation of education, health, and housing. Our problem isn't to discourage productivity, but to discourage sloth. We fund our RubeGoldberg centralized system of regulation by taxing too much of what we want and too little of what we don't want!
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For reducing the growing chasm between income classes, the idea of a progressive consumption tax fairly cries out! Why hasn't it been paid more attention? Until recently, technology to support such an idea wasn't available. Now it is. Now, the fear is BigBrother. However, BigBrother is already monitoring internet searches, purchases, indeed, our very keystrokes! soon, our carbon emissions. Big Brother won't be tamed by pretending he's not there or by declining to confront him on his terrain. We will either have methods for identifying voters and citizens and for monitoring accumulations of economic activity, or America's identity as a nation will melt into the N.W.O., there to be ruled by international corporatists skilled at diverting sheeple to fleece machines.
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Check online for progressive consumption tax ideas. Effect: avoid double taxation of income. However, think even further about what could be accomplished with a scheme that would raise most revenue via a progressive consumption tax. Samples: Encourage production by those who show talent to produce by not taxing corporate or individual income or investments in production. Encourage cheaper prices secondary to mass production by taxing individual consumption progressively. Discourage people from going into debt for what they cannot afford. Discourage capacity to buy politicians as commodities by constraining corporate lobbying to fixed and highly taxed modes. Do not allow corporations to make political or campaign contributions except as a form of highly taxed consumption. Progressively tax lobbying by individuals as a form of consumption. Discourage rise of despotisms and aristocracies by appropriate use of tariffs and death taxes. Redistribute most taxes to states on a per capita basis. Do tax financial outflows from country; do not tax financial inflows. Regardless, end the RubeGoldberg tax on incomes.
Fairness cannot be adjusted merely by distributing more fiat money. There comes a point where increased resources spent on consuming results in decreased production, such that one cannot consume one's way to riches. One cannot print money to prime the middle class at the front door without availing those who cause the money to be printed to engorge themselves at the back door. The proportionate wealth of the middle class cannot be increased merely by inflating money. Instead, the consumptive power of the money itself must be made disproportionately beneficial to all lower classes, by effecting progressive taxes against increasing levels of household consumption. Mere printing of money to finance central government boondoggles will not enhance fairness. Instead, temporary payouts to workers will simply be offset by increased taxes and by crony graft by those who have access to influence government. Those who advise that government should spend fiat money to prme the economy mean, in effect, to wipe out the political influence of the middle class. They mean to make us one NWO, where the sheared-of-influence will be ruled by elites who have accumulated the power to make it necessary that all others say elites know best. Soros, Krugman and Obama don't have in mind the protection of the liberty or opportunity of the middling people. Nor is their agenda some fairy tale of socialist utopia. Rather, the agenda is to crush all political influence of the middle class. These wolves have big, sparkling teeth.
The greater priority is to revitalize a decent middle class. Homosexuals already have freedom to do pretty much whatever they want. As to drug users, laws should be changed to decriminalize personal use. Instead, civil fines should be used to discourage inappropriate public use, without imposition of criminal record. After the third arrest for public intoxication, there should be required rehabilitation. However, those are relatively minor issues, considering the politically polarizing war now raging between economic plebeians versus patricians. The danger now most pressing to decent civilization is that the middle class is effectively not represented. Without a third party that can base itself on principle, such as sustenance of civilization of decently empathetic human beings, the middle class goes unrepresented. During elections, the middle class of sheep, i.e., the productive class that earns its keep more by work than by dealing, merely participates in a charade of choosing the deceiver it least abhors: Choose between sheep shearer number 1 or sheep shearer number 2! Establishment Rinos and Dinos want to push all sheep to the same place — a place where there’s no room for a middle class, but only for masses to be ruled by elites; a place where who shall be barbarian and who shall be citizen becomes less a matter of principle than of fortune of war (or spoil of popular vote). It may be that the best the middle class can do is to gum up the works until it can establish its own political party. Dare we dream that such a party could actually be based on principles of basic decency and common sense? if we can adduce and communicate a responsible, common sense list of what's wrong, a path towards what is needed to sustain decent civilization may readily unfold.
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