France’s Hollande Gets Court Approval for 75% Millionaire Tax

[tmonster]

you seem to be implying top marginal rates being raised helps the economy.

what is your definition of "helping the economy"?
would you consider the economy healthy currently? and why(not)?

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

yeah


I keep wondering when we will smarten up as a species and understand the nature of money and how it relates to that of man. Money is just a secured contract technology
When you remove it from circulation you prevent men from contracting their affairs and therefore from living as part of society.
Greed is blinding

I guess in the far away future we would eventually evolve past it. But we need it as a means of exchange

 

[Type Username Here]

you seem to be implying income tax rates being raised helps the economy.

It increases revenue, and when the government pumps back that money into the economy through public projects and social safety net, it does.

Why are you capitalists always arguing against this? We have plenty of documented proof of this.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

what is your definition of "helping the economy"?
would you consider the economy healthy currently? and why(not)?

well if it were healthy we wouldn't need the federal reserve pumping in money. But it looks a lot better than it did a couple years ago and healthier than a lot of other countries despite what the doom and gloom guys might say in here.

I was more just trying to infer what the guy I quoted was saying because it seems to be what he's saying.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

It increases revenue, and when the government pumps back that money into the economy through public projects and social safety net, it does.

Why are you capitalists always arguing against this? We have plenty of documented proof of this.

I wasn't saying I agreed or disagreed.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

It increases revenue, and when the government pumps back that money into the economy through public projects and social safety net, it does.

Why are you capitalists always arguing against this? We have plenty of documented proof of this.

I think you're making a mistake of looking at things in a vacuum.

 

[tmonster]

I guess in the far away future we would eventually evolve past it. But we need it as a means of exchange

it's not about getting past money
it's about recognizing its proper place and role, it's about not allowing it to be used as a sublimated branch of social warfare

 

[Black smoke and cac jokes]

yeah


I keep wondering when we will smarten up as a species and understand the nature of money and how it relates to that of man. Money is just a secured contract technology
When you remove it from circulation you prevent men from contracting their affairs and therefore from living as part of society.
Greed is blinding

Money is man-made so what would the nature of money be?

 

[tmonster]

Money is man-made so what would the nature of money be?

ok, let's not get caught in the definition of the word "nature"
and in any case, as you can see by the title of the book above, I am not taking any poetic license

nor verbose

it's really not germane to my point
but if you must, then substitute "nature" with "character" or "gestalt"