[MD] On Indian Values (Part I?)

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt]
> What you've repeatedly stated is that you favor and value a regulated
> market, and that you favor using the tax code to transfer wealth from
> each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. That,
> my friend, is pure Marx.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I think regulations are required. Sure. Such things as "intellectual
> copyright", for example, are regulations on the market. We may disagree
> on certain regulations, but to paint me as demanding complete
> regulation, and yourself as no regulation, is pure propaganda. As for
> the tax code, my distortive friend, I said I recognize the valuable
> infrastructure that requires taxation, from public libraries to EMT
> services, to public roads and parks. Again, we may disagree on
> particular taxes, but to paint me as "pro-tax" and yourself as somehow
> "anti-tax" is, again, nothing but pure propaganda.

>From the Marxist thinker's post of 4/5:

"Go with a 100% consumption tax. Higher rates for luxury items, lower 
rates for necessities. Low rates for your first car/home, higher rates 
for subsequent or luxury cars/homes, zero tax on cars/homes in the 
lowest 5% of the average local market. High rates for dining out, low 
rates for unprepared produce, zero for produce that's grown/raised 
within a 50 mile radius of the store.

"Interest rates on loans can be lowered by agreeing to do public 
service. For example, a loan offered at 5.5% could be brought down to 
4% by someone willing to spend 10 hours a week helping kids learn how 
to read, or delivering meals on wheels, or assisting in eldercare. 
Those willing to do public work, then, would pay less. This runs 
counter to the current system that makes poorer people pay more for the 
same loan.

"Eliminate bankruptcy, private and business.

"Just a few thoughts... "

One wonders what other "thoughts" the Marxist thinker can conjure up to 
engineer society, control our lives and eliminate DQ?

Platt