Re: What if and Why of Zero Taxation

["Harry Veeder" <eo200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While I don't think modern money literally causes production
as Keynes thought, it does facilitate _forward_ production
and consumption.

The power to effectively coordinate production for different
future ends is what makes capitalism so different from
earlier economies where production could only satisfy immediate
needs.

Capitalist style production/consumption wouldn't be viable without
taxation. Through taxation, the world of money and prices
is pressed into the social future making forward production
possible.

Harry Veeder


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>From: "Schulte-baeuminghaus" <schulte.baeuminghaus@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <larson@xxxxxx>, <VOW@xxxxxxxxxx>, <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: What if and Why of Zero Taxation
>Date: Sat, Jan 26, 2002, 1:10 AM
>


>A world without either interest rates - infinite access to funds for
>everyone - or taxes would probably be an ideal world in many ways; but it
>seems to be a world that, so far, we haven't been able to contrive.
>
>
>James Cumes