tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post8626027245345616179..comments2024-01-08T04:16:25.601-08:00Comments on Ché (What You Call Your) Pasa: Crackpot Economic TheoriesChé Pasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-75817369288334266252011-09-19T13:23:24.178-07:002011-09-19T13:23:24.178-07:00I'm seeing all these so-called O-bots going ar...I'm seeing all these so-called O-bots going around proclaiming the utter wonderfulness of Obama's brilliant political move to declare that billionaires should pay income taxes at the same rate as their secretaries instead of much less. Why even Warren Buffett agrees!!``1<br /><br />"Of course it has no chance of passing" say these same O-bots. It's just a brilliant political move that will force the unmasking of the Rs as tools of the oligarchs.<br /><br />Yes. Yes, they are. Did anybody doubt it? (Clue: so are the Ds.)<br /><br />I'm with you. The income tax rate on billionaires should be confiscatory above a certain level (the Eisenhower Era rates sound good) same with the estate tax. Yes, it is (or rather should be) redistributory -- downward. <br /><br />Whoo-doubleplusgood-hoo! It's about time!<br /><br />As for the clip I posted, I couldn't get through it either; it is just gibberish. Because the speaker so debases language and the plain meaning of words, ironically, I think it shows how the Rothbardians and von Mieses enthusiasts have become a cult. Since only the initiates can possibly understand their gobbledegook. But we see the results day by day, and you would think they would get the idea that it <b>doesn't work.</b><br /><br />No such thing. The Chicago Boys (who are now re-conceived as misguided "liberals") have screwed everything up, you see? <i>They're not doing it right.</i> Besides, they're <i>liberals!</i> [spit]<br /><br />We must advocate for what's right nevertheless.<br /><br />Some wag pointed out, "There is no mention of 'jobs' in the Jobs Bill. Isn't that interesting?"<br /><br />Got to match Paul Ryan, I guess. Someone else I can't sit through...<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />ChéChé Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-51309949883707848392011-09-19T12:06:50.606-07:002011-09-19T12:06:50.606-07:00I couldn't handle listening to the entire clip...I couldn't handle listening to the entire clip, but the part I did hear was classic sophistry. Throw around a bunch of (misplaced) jargon like "empirical" often enough, and you'll get the audience eating out of your hand. Match that with cart-before-the-horse assertions like "You can't disprove what I'm saying because it's impossible to disprove" and you'll generate "knowing" nods and new converts. <br /><br />This Austrian School, far-right garbage is spreading like wildfire, too. It was once seen through for the claptrap is really is, but now it's embraced by our "leaders" in DC. <br /><br />Tragic, really. <br /><br />Also: caught part of Obama's speech today on the new deficit reduction deal. This "Buffett rule" idea is incredible. Obama has managed to make it sound reasonable that billionaires should pay as much in taxes as their secretaries -- instead of three times <i>more</i>, as they should!! Damn. How on earth did the conversation get so screwed up? The GOP will argue that Buffett's taxes shouldn't be raised at all, while the Dems will argue that they should be as high as the middle class's!!<br /><br />A choice between A and B. Sheeesh!! Why isn't anyone proposing that Buffett pay triple what the middle class pays?<br /><br />The same? So that's now a great victory for progressives, if we just get it to the same percentage? <br /><br />The Overton Window shifts again to the right.Cuchulainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-5993139497766797672011-09-18T19:05:19.516-07:002011-09-18T19:05:19.516-07:00Your solutions are spot on.
Yes. Nationalize the...Your solutions are spot on. <br /><br />Yes. Nationalize the banks. In fact, nationalize every monopoly with a social good. At least. Have mentioned it before, but Tony Judt makes a great case for that in his <i>Ill Fares the Land</i>, though I would go further than he proposes. We must, at the same time, reverse Citizens United, take away corporate personhood, and end the link between money and speech. That connection must be erased completely and permanently. <br /><br />I think we need to work toward a form of total unionization of the workforce as well. An automatic membership, simply by being a citizen of this country. And we all, as workers, get to vote for our union reps on a local, state and national level. No parties allowed. All outside any party system by law. A permanent institution representing Labor, and just Labor, constructed via direct democratic means. Strict limits on donations, etc. Perhaps, no more than $250 per person, with no bundling allowed. Individual contributions only. And go from there. <br /><br />We must have a serious institutional counterweight to Capital, one that lives and breaths and grows with the country. All non-profit. All democratic. <br /><br />It's time to put an end to the dominance of Capital, and unionize the entire workforce.Cuchulainnoreply@blogger.com