Harry Pollard wrote: > Considerable difference between land and buildings.
Houses are usually bought together with the land they're built on (and surroundings). Now, if the land costs 10-100 times more than it should, just so a few heirs can reap billions, then this has a considerable impact on "house" prices (and also on everything else!). This is what makes the high subsidies to "house construction" necessary -- paying the excessive land prices instead of house construction itself! (which the people could afford _without_ subsidies) It seems that the issue of excessive heredity is a taboo issue even on this list... the BI proponents prefer to tinker with symptoms and band-aids instead of addressing the basic causes of injustice. ---- Thomas Lunde wrote: > At about $900 a month for Basic Income, there is a strong incentative to get > a job. You're never going to buy a new house or car on $900 a month. But > if you got a minimum wage job which brings you in about $1100 gross and > maybe $800 net, all of sudden that shit work becomes worth doing with a BI > supplement. Now the same thing could be accomplished by raising the minimum > wage to a realistic $12 -14 an hour, but then the cost would fall totally on > those businesses that use minimum wage employees and they would scream - > unfair and I think rightly so. Now this is interesting! You want to help McJob corporations to further lower their McWages for shit work, in order to increase shareholder profits, all at the expense of taxpayers. BI as a neo-con scheme after all ? Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
