A few questions: Are non-wage earner family members able to help haul water? (ie. children, spouses, etc)
Does everyone live equally far from the community well? If so, why? What if someone "wants" to get excercise by getting their own water and not be taxed to have someone else do it for them? Can someone pay another person (perhaps someone from outside the community) to fetch their own water, do lawn maintence, etc? What do the people in the community do for water 2 days a week during their working weeks, and for the other 6 weeks when they are not working? ------------------------ > Q1. > What is an hours labour worth in this community? A1: I guess it depends on what is being done and by whom. > Q2. > Should the community consider bringing in cheap labour > to haul their water? A2: No. The community has obviously been functioning reasonably well with the current scheme for water collection and use. > Q3, > Should the community levee a tax and use the tax to > pay the cheap labour to haul the water? A3: No. The community doesn't have the available free-time to fill out tax returns. > Q3.1 > If so, at what rate should Albert, Beverly, Charles > and Emily be taxed? A3.1: It depends on what the person processing, collecting, and disbursing the funds collected is going to be paid and if anyone has the ability to opt-out and haul their own water. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Mefford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:16 PM Subject: [Biofuel] socialism, taxes, economics, comments please. > Spent a lot of hours behind the wheel these last few weeks. > Driving from the 'services' economy of the greater mid-atlantic > Washington DC USA region, through rural WV, and Pa, up through > industrialized and agricultural southern Canada, down through > agricultural and tourist economy of northern Michigan/UP... > > A model came to mind. > > A Very Simple Economic Model. > ----------------------------- > > Albert, the blacksmith. > Earns the equiv of $24,000 US a year > plying his trade. > > Beverly, the mortgage banker. > Earns the equiv of $240,000 US a year, > plying her trade. > > Charles, the surgeon, > Earns the equiv of $2.400,000 US a year > plying his trade > > Emily, the CEO, > Earns the equiv of $24,000,000 US a year > plying her trade. > > In this community, folks work 8 hours a day > to fulfill their trade obligations, no more, > no less. > > In this community, folks work 5 days a week > to fulfill their trade obligations, no more, > no less. > > In this community, folks work 48 weeks a year > to fulfill their trade obligations, no more, > no less. > > In this community where Albert, Beverly, > Charles and Emily live, it takes 1 hour > to go the communal well, and draw the > water needed for the day, and haul it > back to their respective domiciles. > > ----------------------------------- > > Q1. > What is an hours labour worth in this community? > > Q2. > Should the community consider bringing in cheap labour > to haul their water? > > Q3, > Should the community levee a tax and use the tax to > pay the cheap labour to haul the water? > Q3.1 > If so, at what rate should Albert, Beverly, Charles > and Emily be taxed? > > Discussion. > > What is this hour devoted to drawing water worth? > Since there are 24 hours in the day, and all the > hours are spoken for, doing the regular stuff, > like raising kids, cleaning house, working, > fiddling about, and occasionally watching NFL > or world cup rallye, the only reason to do offload > the hauling of water duty would be to gain an extra > hour of free time. > > So, to Albert, an hour of free time is essentially > worth $1000 over a year. To Beverly, $10,000, to > Charles $100,000 and to Emily $1,000,000. > > ------------------------------------ > > Discussion > How does the Nash Equilibrium bear on this > scenario? > > ------------------------------------- > > Somewhere, I'm sure this Very Simple Model is > already addressed. If someone could point me to > a paper, I'd greatly appreciate it. > > Comments please. > > thanks. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > [email protected] > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [email protected] http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
