On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not being cynical. That's the way the world works. Almost all of it. > The only reason some corporations deviate from that pattern is because they > love money more than politics. > That's why I concluded, in 1992 when this all occurred (on top of the problems with NASA basically thumbing their collective noses at the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990) the only way to attack bureaucratic intransigence in both the private as well as public sectors, was to replace taxation on economic activity with a flat tax on liquidation asset value at a rate equal to the government bond rate. You do that and they're love money more than politics, or they will die.