Statist Democrat & Republican Party Leaders
Are the Republicans so very different or do they merely advocate spending our labor output on different social engineering? As long as Republicans join Democrats to conspire over how my labor output will be used by them - they are both a pack of thieves.
Do Republicans really want to try a different approach? Not the party leaders, who like their Democrat counterparts are a band of statists. You go ahead and kid yourself that they are different while they are still rummaging through your wallet for revenue.
If there are Republicans in Maryland that want to change tax systems from this slavery based plantation model to one that is fair, principled and that will actually improve society for just about everybody then outlaw income tax and replace it with a sort of rent payment. Rent payments would be based of the location value of land - period. No longer would taxes be based on slave labor output from such sources as taxes on building, sales, wages, other personal property, etc. All of these are based on labor output which morally belongs to only the rightful owner - the poor individual that earned it and not the gang of thieves stealing it.
But the earth is another matter altogether. We must share the planet and that provides a tremendous opportunity to fairly pay for society at the same time.
However, before anyone could possible go forward to understand how brilliant the proposal is, one must admit to being completely ignorant about the outcomes of such a bold economic move.
It doesn't have to be that way though. Your homework is to read "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George. It is about an eight hundred page book so that means the majority of Americans will never turn the first page. But if I could get enough people in key positions to read this masterpiece then it might just get them to ponder how Mr. George's plans could be implemented today.
Should that occur, do I have a plan for you! Once I understood the economics in this book, in which Henry George explains everything including what is going wrong and why, I knew we were fast approaching today's depression. I also understand things are due to get a lot worse too. But I figured this was also the best chance I have to get people to look into this intelligent reform now that the slavery based economy is crashing and burning - again.
I could turn any country in the world into one of the wealthiest most secure nations on the planet in five years with this plan. Wouldn't it be great to start with the Freestate?
Do Republicans really want to try a different approach? Not the party leaders, who like their Democrat counterparts are a band of statists. You go ahead and kid yourself that they are different while they are still rummaging through your wallet for revenue.
If there are Republicans in Maryland that want to change tax systems from this slavery based plantation model to one that is fair, principled and that will actually improve society for just about everybody then outlaw income tax and replace it with a sort of rent payment. Rent payments would be based of the location value of land - period. No longer would taxes be based on slave labor output from such sources as taxes on building, sales, wages, other personal property, etc. All of these are based on labor output which morally belongs to only the rightful owner - the poor individual that earned it and not the gang of thieves stealing it.
But the earth is another matter altogether. We must share the planet and that provides a tremendous opportunity to fairly pay for society at the same time.
However, before anyone could possible go forward to understand how brilliant the proposal is, one must admit to being completely ignorant about the outcomes of such a bold economic move.
It doesn't have to be that way though. Your homework is to read "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George. It is about an eight hundred page book so that means the majority of Americans will never turn the first page. But if I could get enough people in key positions to read this masterpiece then it might just get them to ponder how Mr. George's plans could be implemented today.
Should that occur, do I have a plan for you! Once I understood the economics in this book, in which Henry George explains everything including what is going wrong and why, I knew we were fast approaching today's depression. I also understand things are due to get a lot worse too. But I figured this was also the best chance I have to get people to look into this intelligent reform now that the slavery based economy is crashing and burning - again.
I could turn any country in the world into one of the wealthiest most secure nations on the planet in five years with this plan. Wouldn't it be great to start with the Freestate?
posted by Tomás Estrada-Palma at
5:27 AM
2 Comments:
"Progress and Poverty" in the unabridged runs about 560 pages, if memory serves.
But there is a modern abridgment -- a thought-by-thought updating into contemporary English, then shortened to omit the longish series of examples George provided in the original. Bob Drake did the abridgment, and recorded it; MP3s are at http://hgchicago.org/audio.
You can read it online at http://progressandpoverty.org/ or at http://henrygeorge.org/ (where a course is also available), or buy hardcopy from Amazon or from schalkenbach.org.
And if you're reading Drake's abridgment, and find yourself curious about the original, you can find a cross-referenced table of contents at http://wealthandwant.com/HG/PP/toc.htm.
Enjoy!
The first time I read P&P, I found it tough going; I was amazed when a friend described it as a page-turner, a mystery whose solution she couldn't wait to learn. I now read it for pleasure, in both the original and the abridged; those who have read the original will find it ringing in their ears when they read the abridged (hence the cross-reference!)
Thanks for the info. I'm making some videos explaining the book for the non reading Americans.
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home