On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:02 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > Oh, I forgot to mention that you have to send the money out as a citizen's dividend rather than dolling it out in pork.