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by ende 11y ago
LVT has maintained support among mainstream economists as recent as Milton Friedman, Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, and Tyler Cowen. I have no idea where you are getting your misconceptions from.
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by ende 11y ago
Yes, this. It reminds me of goalies in hockey, and how people are in awe when a goalie makes some ridiculous save when in fact the goalie would have never had to have made such a save if they hadn't been out of position in the first p
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by ende 11y ago
Income is not a measure of how fast your wealth is growing, it's a measure of how much salary and wage earners are compensated on a regular interval. Many people earn income without necessarily earning wealth. If you want to target w
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by ende 11y ago
Taxing income only hurts those who do have jobs. The solution is a Land Value Tax.
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by ende 11y ago
What Tolkien was largely dismissing is the notion that his world was a direct allegory. He readily acknowledges that the comraderie and sacrifice he experienced in the trenches of WWI manifests itself in Frodo and his companions, as well a
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by ende 11y ago
We need a police force for the police force. They can't arrest citizens, only police officers, and they are completely independent of the primary power structure. They answer only to a permanent rotating grand jury. If a cop is accu
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by ende 11y ago
Well said.
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by ende 11y ago
What stimulus? According to Krugman, fiscal policy in the US fell far short. In fact he classifies temporary decreases in spending -growth- as austerity. Frankly most developed economies have thrown the kitchen sink at their problems to
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by ende 11y ago
Yup. If anyone wants to read some high quality Krugman, check out his recent posts on TPP. I think he does a great disservice to his intellect by wading into political economy and his constant partisan mudslinging. I think it's the
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by ende 11y ago
I say we axe income tax completely. Two reasons: 1) even a progressive income tax is highly regressive when one considers that the wealthy mostly don't even earn employment income and therefore don't pay tax on it, and 2) taxatio
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by ende 11y ago
Maybe someone can answer this: the higher resolution images of asteroid surfaces are amazing, but I wonder what video would show in terms of surface dynamics. Is there likely a lot of dust and debris within proximity to the surface or are
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by ende 11y ago
"Hassett is a native of Greenfield, Massachusetts" (Wikipedia)
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by ende 11y ago
Price controls lead to shortages. Economics 101.
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by ende 11y ago
You're projecting this on the mentality of individuals, I don't believe that's what is being referred to but rather nation states as agents on the international stage. It's not a comment on how people think but rather t
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by ende 11y ago
Freedom of the Seas. Kiss that goodbye under Chinese or Russian hegemony.
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by ende 11y ago
Good question. The stated goal (generalizing of course) of the LVT is to replace most other forms of taxation, particularly income tax. I've seen napkin calculations where that's possible, but the other side of the question of c
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by ende 11y ago
Any time a UBI is mentioned I think it is important to point out that the program is traditionally paired with (and funded exclusively by) a Land Value Tax. This is an important point because the UBI is not an income redistribution mechani
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by ende 11y ago
Buffalo has a huge fan base throughout southern ontario.
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by ende 11y ago
Or they will continue to be a black hole for first round talent. They badly need to get their act together at the highest level before they can even think about putting together a competetive team. An ownership change may be in order.
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by ende 11y ago
I would think that there are several evolutionary advantages for a species with non-homogenous sleeping patterns. Someone has to be mentally alert through the night.
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by ende 11y ago
How about they bring back third party apps?
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by ende 11y ago
I can see the headline now... "Show HN: Pudding - A language for programming proofs". I could see a lot of uses for this kind of programming. In a language like Matlab or R, we just assume that the implementations correctly matc
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by ende 11y ago
This assumes that advanced mathematics is currently written by humans for humans. Many proofs can be a trudge for even highly trained humans. The field should really be working on making formalisms more accessible. It would be fantastic
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by ende 11y ago
At some point Software Engineering should probably become its own degree (possibly an associates degreee) separate from Computer Science. Similar to how Computer Engineering split off. It's a bit strange that CS is this hodgepodge of
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by ende 11y ago
There's another potential source of the problem: the time gap in between those undergraduate lessons are learned in the abstract and the later point in time when the exercise if those lessons is required. Unexercised knowledge atrophi
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by ende 11y ago
Agree completely. A life time of privilege is codified in a series of classifications that have absolutely zero predictive value of a person's intellect or capacity for learning. Cue the refrain: "but we need SOMETHING to differe
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by ende 11y ago
Not after being doused in makeup and qualudes, at least.
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by ende 11y ago
Yeah, there's a lot of devil in the details as far as determining the actual formula as a function land value. I typically imagine there are ways to align an LVT along a progressive scale, such that the little old lady who owns nothin
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by ende 11y ago
Traditionally the split was 100/0 (man/woman) Now the split is 100/100. I feel like there's a healthier (both physically and economically) balance somewhere around 50/50.
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by ende 11y ago
I've got three words: land value tax

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