[extropy-chat] Public Transportation (was suitcase nukes)

[Mike Lorrey]

--- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Brian Lee
> > Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Public Transportation (was suitcase
> nukes)
> > 
> > ...One of the purposes of tax law is to guide
> > taxpayers towards acts deemed moral or desired by the government...
> 
> Ja.  I prefer a system where tax law is used to guide
> governments towards acts deemed moral or desired by the taxpayers.

Yup. As a former Roosevelt administration secty once said, "Taxes are
not a revenue generation mechanism, they are a mechanism of
implementing social policy." The government can pay for everything it
does if it wanted simply through monetizing debt backed by goverment
assets and paid by tarrifs and excises. Most income tax paid (98% paid
by the upper 50% of the population) is redistributed through the earned
income tax credit to the bottom 50% of the population. The rest pays
for a portion of the interest on the national debt. ALL other federal
benefits outside social security are paid for through corporate and
capital gains taxes (i.e. generally not the people who receive the
benefits).

Most state gas and road taxes go into the general fund and pay for
education and health and human services budgets, i.e. "a means of
implementing social policy."
 
> > 
> > ... of course some people need
> > suburbans because they have tons of kids or live in the mountains
> or
> > whatever... BAL
> >
> 
> People need suburbans because they hold up better on the 
> rough roads that are caused by governments stealing 
> road repair funds.

Yes, when the daily commute requires 4wd, then most people will drive
4wd autos.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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