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by aminok 10y ago
Competition for the limited supply of licenses would manifest itself in other ways, resulting in $200,000 worth of economic resources being used, on average, to acquire a license. More importantly, the high market price of a transferrable l
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I see a lot of promise in distributed Turing Complete blockchains like Ethereum giving a nonproprietary and decentralized alternative to centralized services. There is a positive feedback loop where the more smart contracts are uploaded to
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User fees would be for things like use of roads. Services like policing would be paid out of revenue collected by a split rate property tax.
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We should only allow the government to raise revenue from a split-rate property tax and user fees for government services used. Non-payment of the former should only be punishable by land expropriation, and not imprisonment.
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I'm pretty 'religious' about not violating people's human rights. I think we have a moral duty to speak our minds when we perceive an injustice being done, and we should not shirk from our duty out of fear of social reje
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That would be a great solution, although I think the consequence for the tax havens would be the opposite of what you envision. >The irony being that most evaders' ancestors were the ones building penal colonies to send their debtor
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The famed Ulfberht sword is believed to have used steel forged in northern Iran, and transported through the Volga trade route (that followed the Volga river into the Caspian sea): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/anci
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As far as I know, Nordic countries don't allow unrestricted entry into their country for foraging of their commons. Correct me if I'm wrong. The OP argues that a tax on private income is justified by us no longer having a right to
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Anything can be made a crime by passing a law. But only violent and/or fraudulent behavior should be illegal. Laws imprisoning those who refuse to hand over a share of the currency they receive in private trade are unjust, and should b
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No one should go to prison for refusing to hand over a share of the currency that they earned in a private trade. There is so much admiration for the covert mass surveillance that Edward Snowden uncovered
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Basic income, like all compulsory income redistribution programs, is a disgusting authoritarian intrusion that should be rejected by all moral people.
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There is no spectrum. Taxes on private income are grossly authoritarian and should be abolished for basic justice.
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>I, personally, have a completely different take on all of this from most UBI'ers. I take the long view: in 50 years, physical labor could be eliminated. WTF do we do when this happens? Do we relegate half of society to be homeless?
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>If UBI is to be instated, we would also have to implement harsh laws to prevent the upper classes from evading taxes. Moving wealth to a tax haven should be made a criminal offence (with jail time). How about you don't instate some
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Any vote against authoritarianism should be celebrated.
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A STEM degree is more valuable than a Liberal Arts degree both financially and in terms of the economic contribution it makes to the nation. The hard sciences and engineering are accountable to reality while Liberal Arts is accountable only
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There is nothing compassionate about authoritarian income redistribution.
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The studies show that women are far more likely to give birth while unmarried when there are higher levels of welfare available, so this is not measuring the incidence of women who already have children in a marriage and then get a divorce.
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Those are explicit national legal rights, limited to the citizens of a particular nation, granting them rights to land under the legal jurisdiction of the national government. It's not the same as a general implicit right possessed by
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That's specific to British subjects in the UK, and would only possibly create a legal justification for raparations paid to descendants of those who had legal right to the commons, with revenue raised from taxes levied on that land. Th
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I had the means, not the right. As soon as someone homesteaded it, I lost the means. By definition, you cannot have a right to unclaimed property. Having a right to it is synonymous to having a claim on it.
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US law is not applicable in some countries, because they maintain independence from the US legal system.
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We have no natural right to forage any given plot of land.
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The US doesn't rule the world (yet).
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Help from the government means forcing people, through threatening them with time in the dungeon, to help. It's collectivist ideology turned into dogmatic religion.
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Studies show that the rate of single motherhood increases dramatically with rises in welfare. It's no surprise to anyone whose eyes are open that people are generally rational, and act to further their own interests. It's morally
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This article is about Persian rugs that are produced specifically in Iran, not the looser definition of "Persian" rug you're using, so I think you should make that context clear in the OP.
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Nothing he said is contradicted by the mediocre/sub-par performance of recognized experts. In fact it's explained by it: >that 5% has a disproportionate impact on the marginal price of shares.
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I don't even know what "neoliberal" is supposed to mean. It sounds like a catch-all term, with no specific definition, used to malign anyone that doesn't support socialist ideals. I wish Greenwald, who has done amazing w
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This is the natural order of human nature. But it turns out that when you let people profit off of the productive capital they own, they end up investing a significant portion of their income into creating new capital. This process of profi

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