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If you took all the cash from the "rich". People would strip all the goods out of the stores sit at home and belch. Drink beer buy all the autos up and would not go to work anymore. The "rich" would be fucked and would have to start all over again. The guy in the "youtube" is a classic pretzel headed butt kisser. In fact the guy is a tube as far as I'm concerned

The guys clearly kissing someones. He's trying to get ahead clearly, ass backwards of course. Send him this graphic. He can put on his TV so his family can admire it.

People think usury is commonality and cooperation. They suck your blood dummy. Go once again to a Large theological library. You will find they left and entire paragraph off. Labor in exchange for food or anything other goods are fixed at a equal exchange. Bargaining for goods is NOT. They did just the opposite. Throw the "socialism" misnomer in there. You going for whats right however what they set in front of you is twisted. The prices are still fixed in socialism to exact labor once again with lending and loans also. See deep down inside you know and most everyone else does. That socialism is closer to that paragraph they left out. They love to play with that. Because once again it winds up at usury. Your struggling for parity. The parity of that missing paragraph in the book. Anything beyond that winds up in division once again. People think my insults are funny and daring. Really they aren't all that daring. These people are lowlifes and nothing more.

What your thinking is possibly. I want the same deal as a Hebrew would get. in that book. Otherwise I'm not doing business. Thats smart. Your prerogative too. I know if I don't like the deal. I don't take it. Your not a drone. Then again at this point maybe you are. Don't feel too bad however. They eat their own too, daily.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/TgAlZFX1Rvw

So the way it should work. You may need food. However your entitled to half of what you labored for. NOT in exchange for "other" goods, especially from who you owe. So once again your not trading labor for goods. They will fix the price then your really fucked. However your entitled to half of what your labor produced so you can extract yourself from having to be in any kind of debt.

Point is to you well you live in an "idiot nation". They are all exchanging labor for goods. Not half of what they produced. Thing you need to do is go look in the mirror and say. Do I really want to work for the lowlifes like the rest of the idiots? Why make a deal with swindler or thief to begin with is the point. Its not smart.

A simple example of how far they will go. Take a grocery cart pusher. You might say thats nice. Giving the poor guy a jobbie. I look at it and say fuck their even screwing that guy too.

So heres a question for the unlearned of course. How do you split half the goods brought on by the labor of a grocery cart pusher. Thats the point. Here's where it gets highly embarrasing for the people of the United States. I see a people embarrased daily. Embarrassed to be doing what they do even. See the deal is when you exchange labor for goods via coupon. They can have you doing anything including cleaning toilets, shining shoes, sweeping floors etc. Once again these people deal in hard goods and assets. The core emination for everything they do. The people in this country can't even get that close to it so they pretty much "buff the wood" for the debt merchants. You think hey its swift for a country thats weaponized going in for goodies. However the country owes and owes and owes. In reality its default to the debt merchants. They let you think otherwise. That you make out well with the booty gotten. However all that does is sooth a big strong warriors ego thats in hock up to his gun turrets cause he just "shot off" all his borrowed ammo and well your further in debt also.

Mick Russom says

You are a crap parent, then. Simple. Family suffers the more you gecko types try and pretend you can take over the world with anything other than luck or theft.

That's pretty funny. With that kind of astute reasoning and psychic abilities to divine my family/parenting skills from afar you ought to be able to put poor GG to shame in a week in the options pits.

I think we are doing OK;
house paid for
cars paid for
no revolving debt
plenty in the bank for later
1 kid graduating early from UC with honors, with just enough student loan debt so they will "need" to get a job - the other about to go national with their apparel designs. I hope they both make 10X what I did.

I only work now because I want too.

Perhaps you were talking to yourself? You might try working for a change - it's a great character builder..

nosimpsonsneedapply says

Mick Russom says
You are a crap parent, then. Simple. Family suffers the more you gecko types try and pretend you can take over the world with anything other than luck or theft.

I don't know this guy Mick but I know your intent. I had a guy that owed me on a mortgage. One of my rentals. One day he had me on one phone and a guy on another line from his work. He was going on and on about how much he made last week. Talking about 25k or 30k. All the time this guy is 3 months behind on making his payments to me. I'm sitting there going what the fuck is this bullshit with this stockbroker fuck anyway. Hes behind on me and he's behind on one of my other friends he had 2 rentals with. WTF. Christ I even thought hey fuck I'm tempted to. Then again. I've known to many guys like him. Your right that entire movie Wall Street was to get people interested. More importantly the swindel the stock market is took off not long after that movie. Its nothing but paper with no asset attached.

ArtimusMaxtor says

Its nothing but paper with no asset attached.

Nothing is worth any more than what we all (or at least one buyer and one seller) agree it is worth on any given moment in time. That holds true for paper or tulips or gold coins or brick and mortar.

Have house prices dropped 50% or more in some markets in the last 6 years?

Seems to me if a house was built in 2005 and sold in 2006 it would be the same house in 2012 - just selling @ half off.

YMMV of course.

Good question. Henry George would say you should not tax any capital (things created by people) but instead tax only land, which no one created.

But maybe a small tax on certain kinds of capital is also good, perhaps with an exemption up to the median amount of capital owned. So you'd pay no tax on the first $100K of asset or something like that.

Sales tax is a tax on transactions, not assets. Sales tax discourages commerce in the same way that income tax discourages work.

What you really want to discourage is non-productive rent-seeking.

George had some very good points.

I think, however, we must be careful to consider what productivity we gain by forking over too much to government. Government is, in its most basic form, nothing more than concentrated force. After all, everything government does can be done voluntarily through free association and liberty. What government provides is a stick of enforcement for a prevailing wisdom -- or a connected political body / beneficiary class. The latter tends to dominate government, keeping much of the benefits for itself, while placating the masses just barely enough to avoid being overthrown.

Not that I have a problem with George's land value tax ideas, though.