Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Re: Communism in Practice: Diasaster after disaster!
http://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus42847-20.html#p801980
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General System Theory offers us, Humanity, a means to define taxation differently, and in effect isn't that what Government is all about? beyond the practice of taxing to raise general funds, it is evolving as a behavioural tool, to effect change in the taxpayer's habits as well. actually, Canada, for its acumen, Cuba, and China, because they have no real Tax Policy (Income Tax), represent the political systems most likely to realise new forms of thinking, what taxes can offer us, which will be emulated by the rest of the world.
Externalities are now measurable, and they can be quantified, based on the principals: user pays, and, you get what you pay for, it is reasonable to expect that a product's 'social cost' would be included in its sale price. and if every good and service was identified by the externalities that are included in their realisation, a Government could finance the work of mitigating these costs. one hopes that the Income Tax in any one of these regimes can be made more easy to understand, a flat rate, based on the Principal of, one man one vote, a measure of the actual cost of Good Government, and not the policies in which these governments are involved; something like a Goods and Services Tax which is infinitely variable serves this purpose better.
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General System Theory offers us, Humanity, a means to define taxation differently, and in effect isn't that what Government is all about? beyond the practice of taxing to raise general funds, it is evolving as a behavioural tool, to effect change in the taxpayer's habits as well. actually, Canada, for its acumen, Cuba, and China, because they have no real Tax Policy (Income Tax), represent the political systems most likely to realise new forms of thinking, what taxes can offer us, which will be emulated by the rest of the world.
Externalities are now measurable, and they can be quantified, based on the principals: user pays, and, you get what you pay for, it is reasonable to expect that a product's 'social cost' would be included in its sale price. and if every good and service was identified by the externalities that are included in their realisation, a Government could finance the work of mitigating these costs. one hopes that the Income Tax in any one of these regimes can be made more easy to understand, a flat rate, based on the Principal of, one man one vote, a measure of the actual cost of Good Government, and not the policies in which these governments are involved; something like a Goods and Services Tax which is infinitely variable serves this purpose better.
