Re: City of Beijing announces Job Gaurantee

[Harry Veeder <eo200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My feeling is everyone should have their income taxed,
even the amount paid is minuscule relative
to the average income earner.

Excluding some individuals from paying income tax is socially divisive.
It generates friction between the taxpayer who is perceived to be pulling
his/her weight and the non-taxpayer who is perceived to be a free-rider.


Harry Veeder


> From: "John O'Donnell" <jackodonnell@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:36:58 -0800
> To: Bruce McFarling <ecbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: City of Beijing announces Job Gaurantee
>
> Bruce McFarling wrote:
>
> <<SNIP>>
>
>> Hopefully what will happen as a result of HAVING an
>> ELR/JG programme in place is an avoidance of a dole and
>> all the vile consequences of developing a dole subculture
>> among those who presently face long term exclusion from
>> employment (one of those consequences being, of course,
>> the right wing dynamic of blaming the victims of that
>> subculture for their exclusion, and then moving in the
>> direction of an American-style system).
>
> More presumptions based on flawed analyses of macro economic
> causes. Rather than being concerned with the dire
> consequences of putting some on the dole, address the
> problem by putting all on the dole with the consequence of
> increasing standards of living while reducing the nominal
> level of wages with its ingerent increase in the demand for
> ;abor. This method even provides rational measure -- the
> growth rate of GNP -- to determine the optimum amount of the
> dole.
>
> --
> -- jbod
>
> Tax Privilege, Not People
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