Jim Devine wrote:
> Oh goody! I've always admired magazines like COSMO with their constant
> barrage of quizzes ("Are You Giving Your Man All that He Wants?").
Luckily, MBS has provided us with a "Are You a Left-Wing-Left-Wing
Communist?" quiz.
CC: Since I would need sliga wire to separate Jim's
Greetings Economists,
Interesting exchange between Carrol, and MBS about Eitc, and the RAL as
MBS puts those things.
Max Sawicky writes,
All these questions become a kind of political dynamite when
the next recession comes along -- when the myth that welfare
is the cause of unemployment is
Jim Devine wrote:
> Oh goody! I've always admired magazines like COSMO with their constant
> barrage of quizzes ("Are You Giving Your Man All that He Wants?"). Luckily,
> MBS has provided us with a "Are You a Left-Wing-Left-Wing Communist?" quiz.
Since I would need sliga wire to separate Jim'
Oh goody! I've always admired magazines like COSMO with their constant
barrage of quizzes ("Are You Giving Your Man All that He Wants?"). Luckily,
MBS has provided us with a "Are You a Left-Wing-Left-Wing Communist?" quiz.
>Some of these [characteristics of left-wing-left-wing communism] would
thing published. I still have it around somewhere. :-).
Barkley Rosser
-Original Message-
From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, May 29, 2000 3:43 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:19729] Re: RE: Re: JD on EITC (Was Krugman Watch)
Max Sawicky wrote:
> It encourages ultimatism and
> left-wing-left-wing communism.
CC:
One learns new isms all the time. Incidentally what is the difference
between left-wing communism and left-wing-left-wing communism?
[mbs] the same as the difference between overdone and
burnt to a cinder.
C
At 01:38 PM 05/29/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>JD: . . .
>(BTW, I can't believe that I awakened MBS's ire so much when I asserted
>that "the earned income credit (unlike classic income-support measures)
>make workers more dependent on their employers' good wishes, i.e., hardly
>helps their bargainin
Although the insistence on work for those on welfare blurs the line a bit, the
working poor (EITC) continue to be treated better than those on welfare. TANF
recipients are subjected to constant harassment to demonstrate their need; EITC
have tax forms to fill out, but face no comparable harassme
Max Sawicky wrote:
> It encourages ultimatism and
> left-wing-left-wing communism.
One learns new isms all the time. Incidentally what is the difference
between left-wing communism and left-wing-left-wing communism?
The usual defining feature of ultra-leftism is a refusal to work with
"bourg
JD: . . .
(BTW, I can't believe that I awakened MBS's ire so much when I asserted
that "the earned income credit (unlike classic income-support measures)
make workers more dependent on their employers' good wishes, i.e., hardly
helps their bargaining power." This is hardly a radical statement.)
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