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Author Topic:   The 50-50-50-50-50 tax and economic plan.
ringo
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Message 46 of 75 (745849)
12-28-2014 1:30 PM
Reply to: Message 44 by RAZD
12-28-2014 12:11 PM


Re: News from the Pope and others ... Unconditional Basic Income
RAZD writes:
... you no longer have to take a job just to live no matter how crummy, demeaning and disrespectful it is.
Employers might have to improve their crummy, demeaning and disrespectful working conditions to compete. Entrepreneurs love to compete.

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ringo
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Message 50 of 75 (745959)
12-30-2014 10:57 AM
Reply to: Message 48 by AZPaul3
12-29-2014 9:53 PM


Re: The Inflating Universe
AZPaul3 writes:
For all our trying no one has been able to find a better than devastating way to get more value from a society then its economy can generate. Just ask the Soviets. Cept you can't cuz their economy imploded and they're not here no more.
I don't think that's a fair example. It could be argued that the Soviet economy imploded because the Western nations spent untold billions for almost half a century trying to make it implode.
Edited by ringo, : Fixed quote.

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ringo
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Message 55 of 75 (746100)
01-02-2015 11:41 AM
Reply to: Message 52 by RAZD
12-31-2014 4:53 PM


Re: The Inflating Universe
RAZD writes:
Can you live on $50/day?
According to my calculations, that would come to a little over $18,000 per year. I made that much a few years in my life, not very many.

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ringo
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Message 65 of 75 (746705)
01-09-2015 11:17 AM
Reply to: Message 63 by New Cat's Eye
01-09-2015 10:21 AM


Re: 50-50 for you and 50-50 for me (Chico Marx)
Cat's Eye writes:
How about this: Can I opt out of the free money for a reduction in my income tax?
You could always give the free money to charity.

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ringo
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Message 68 of 75 (746731)
01-09-2015 12:11 PM
Reply to: Message 67 by New Cat's Eye
01-09-2015 12:07 PM


Re: 50-50 for you and 50-50 for me (Chico Marx)
Cat's Eye writes:
ringo writes:
You could always give the free money to charity.
So could they.
The government can't be picking and choosing charities to support.

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ringo
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Message 70 of 75 (746842)
01-10-2015 10:38 AM
Reply to: Message 69 by xongsmith
01-09-2015 1:29 PM


Re: 50-50 for you and 50-50 for me (Chico Marx)
xongsmith writes:
ringo writes:
The government can't be picking and choosing charities to support.
They already do...the Military and it's subcontractors, the Big Oil's fatcats, Big Agra's, Big Pharma's...you name it. Plus the meagre social programs the GOP is trying to eliminate.
Point taken - but my point is that if you didn't want your "handout" you could give it to the Catholic Church or the Salvation Army or the NRA or the IRA. The government can't make that choice.

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