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   by ende 12y ago

   Many do.
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   by ende 12y ago

   What a bunch of whiney nerds.
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   by ende 12y ago

   "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing year after year and expecting different results" Proponents of campaign finance reform are going about it all wrong. It's always the same proposal: enact limits on campaign
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   by ende 12y ago

   But they did so when he least expected it!
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   by ende 12y ago

   Russia invades with troops, US invades with metaphors.
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   by ende 13y ago

   This assumes that a basic income is funded through income taxation. Instead, fund it through a land value tax (a rent on land ownership paid to society). The LVT is just the cost of investment, like any business owner renting space to run
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   by ende 13y ago

   I agree with you. So don't tax the innovators and entrepreneurs. Leave their income alone. Tax the land owners who generate wealth for themselves while contributing nothing to society. Tax the unproductive rent-seeking wealth of th
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   by ende 13y ago

   Replace income tax with land value tax. Then it's not redistribution of income. The argument for a land value tax is Georgist: land is not property because it is not the product of one's own labor. Therefore land 'owners&#
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   by ende 13y ago

   Not if its funded by a land value tax instead of an income tax.
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    by ende 13y ago

    Actually rather than dock prisoners' basic income, confiscate it as part of their sentencing to fund their internment. That makes prisons a lot more self-sufficieny.