<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">You didn’t answer the important question: If borrowing doesn’t matter, why tax at all?<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On May 7, 2020, at 8:47 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 8:55 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-4799260231360193836WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div> <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-4799260231360193836WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>OK, assume the USA will never go broke because it never has. This is good news: the shutdown can last indefinitely. </p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">The shutdown can't last indefinitely but if necessary mass death can be postponed for a very long time, long enough for a vaccine to be found. Of course to do that the top 1% of the top 1% of the top 1% will have to be more heavily taxed, but Trump would prefer mass death. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">By the way… what happens when your theory fails?</i></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">That has happened many times in my life so I'll do exactly what I've always done, I'll look for a better theory. You really should give it a try, the Scientific Method works pretty well.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div>
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