By: Paula
Love it. Love it. Love it! I like to think that as humans continue to evolve and advance, someday, somewhere, real, practical "representative" government will occur. Well, actually, I remember reading...
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Such things are possible and even exist, to an extent, today I would submit that such things are possible under VERY limited circumstances.. Can you imagine if this Scandinavian country came under...
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Slick's concept is a nice fantasy and would work well under very limited, very controlled conditions. Sorry.. I was mixing up Slick's idea with Paula's... My bust.... Michale.....
View ArticleBy: dsws
It would be a disaster, if it were tried for real. I don't know what stuff actually costs, and I'm pretty number-savvy compared to the average taxpayer.
View ArticleBy: nypoet22
This idea would absolutely not work. Nobody would choose the stuff that's necessary but not cared about. The part of the idea that would work very well is to tax based on the spending instead of the...
View ArticleBy: Chris Weigant
Everyone - I apologize for being mostly-absent here in the comments, I am pushing to finish up the book proposal in the next few weeks with every spare moment. But I do still read everyone's comments....
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For those commenting on the "will it work" aspect here, a simple question: wouldn't it be interesting to do such a study and find out how the American people would divvy up their tax money? Purely...
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We already know pretty well what the not-paying-attention public wants to do to the budget. Decrease foreign aid by $38 trillion a year, use $15 trillion of that to wipe out the deficit, cut taxes by...
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The core idea is explained in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmOHx5Ftez8 at 1:41.
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Rather than just saying it wouldn't work, I should have responded by brainstorming variations that might. We could have a modest percentage of the budget, say 20%, allocated as follows. Let...
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