There is absolutely ZERO reason a cancer treatment should cost over $100,000 a year. None. Nada. Zip.
- hmmm, excuse me? If I start selling a treatment I came up with for some serious disease, HIV, Cancer, some genetic problems, whatever, whatever, I should be able to charge anything at all that I want, it's my stuff, it's not yours. You don't want to buy it or you can't afford to buy it, who is forcing you?
Now the actual problem with government is that it tries to 'help' you and creates incentives that make no sense, like employment tied insurance. People should be able to buy insurance not only across State lines but anywhere on the planet, you should be able to buy insurance from Singapore if they gave you a good deal for it there.
You shouldn't be forced to buy insurance but AFAIC hospitals must not be forced to provide anybody with any form of care for free either. Government shouldn't be in any business, this includes health care or health insurance as well.
There shouldn't be such a thing as Medicare or SS in the first place. The young shouldn't be forced to pay for the old but they are. The young are constantly forced to pay for the old with these chain letters, ponzi scams that are things like SS or Medicare, etc. Those are ponzi scams and nothing more than that, if they were legitimate savings there would be more than IOUs there and they wouldn't be handled by any government in the first place.
*WHY* would any *SANE* person allow a government, *ANY* government handle their retirement fund and health care? AFAIC the young of today will not have any SS, they will not have anything given to them by the young of the future, they should rebel now and stop having their money stolen from them by this collectivist nonsense. They should stop paying all income and wealth related taxes, what the fuck would the government do if say 20% of the income earning population just stopped paying? Hang some in the town square? Fuck the government, fuck the empty promises, fuck the obligations that the old voted themselves at the expense of the young.
I am an ancap, so no democrat, no liberal here (but also no republican, no conservative). Reagan didn't create an economic boom, the economic boom was created as a result of the cleansing of the debt that happened after a decade of stagflation that was abruptly stopped by Paul Volcker in 1981, when he raised interest rates to 21.5%
The necessary deleveraging allowed for the savings to be rebuilt quickly to restart the economy but eventually the government spending and the preceding default on the gold dollar in 1971 by Nixon allowed Reagan to get into more debt by delivering the impossible promises, the interest rates were pushed lower and lower, allowing debt monetization. Basically the default on the gold dollar and all of the inflation created by the Fed in the last 100 years is what has destroyed the US economy.
As an ancap, objectivists I am against all forms of government on principle and will always be against all forms of government on principle. There is 0 chance of me working with a 'green' (a communist actually, somebody who is against individual freedoms, against private ownership and private control of property).
This absolutely does not mean I am somehow 'against environment', AFAIC all property must be private, every single last bit of it, only then can it be meaningfully managed.
Again, why the fuck would people who want individual liberty form a coalition with people who despise individual liberty and want nothing to do with private property rights or generally individual self determination?
Greens are the communists of today, why the fuck with libertarians, ancaps, objectivists work with them???? Explain.
Oh, sure, States are a fiction but the federal government is reality, right? How about this: fuck the federal government, all States should secede, form independent countries (and split further or join together with some States if they like). I am all for complete disassociation of one from another, we should have the right to associate with people we want to associate with and not be forced to associate with people we do not want.
Why is USA a country? A person is born in the USA that was not of their choice, that person can have/develop views on freedom, on collectivism, on government that are totally unaligned with the majority that surrounds them. Today USA is at least 2 different countries politically speaking, I would say it is closer to 3 countries than 2 even.
There are collectivists (Statists) who are subdivided into Christians and others. You have your non-collectivists (anti-Statists) who are also subdivided, but their absolute numbers are too low to worry about finer division.
These are not the people who should be forced by the circumstance of their birth to live under the system that they were born into. Of-course the very concept of States and of the Federal government allows for this type of division but it basically is a failed experiment at this point, it no longer delegates *some* power to the federal government, in general the federal government is omnipotent now, the States are irrelevant.
This is a failure of the system that can be fixed by splitting the country into 3 political systems, the USA needs to be split across some lines (easier said than done of-course) that would wall off (funny, isn't it) the populations that don't really belong with each other from each other.
I already answered this about 10,000 times, I don't want any government doing anything, from infrastructure, to health care, to education, to money, to insurance, to police, to fire, anything even including defence (should be done privately with a private company being hired to do so and has to be paid upfront with war bonds if necessary). Nothing should be done by any government whatsoever.
You're highly delusional. On this side of the Atlantic we pay our taxes and we like it.
- *who* the fuck is 'we' exactly? I lived in many places on this planet, four years in Germany, spent time in the UK and Switzerland, not only USA and Canada (born in the former USSR, lived in Israel as well). Who the fuck is 'we'? Not the people who matter, not the people who actually *run* businesses, not the people who are on the short side of this fucking stick.
You think somebody wants to pay for your medical care or for your anything for that matter that they get robbed to pay for? I know of-course how they rat each other out in Germany, one has to be careful there. I also am very acutely aware how people travel from France to Germany to do jobs that they do not pay taxes on at all while getting those subsidise back in France. I know how people move money around, I know how people avoid taxation and they evade it as well. Nobody wants to pay for you, you are delusional and you are going to recognize the depth of your delusion shortly.
There shouldn't be any income, any corporate, any wealth taxes at all. Your insane collectivist governments will eventually fall once there are no more jobs left for the collectivists and all the jobs move anywhere where the collectivists cannot get them.
As a freelancer working out of an Ltd, I got a tax ruling stating how much salary I should pay myself as a "director-major shareholder" (there's a minimum based on the kind of company and revenue).
- that's pure insanity and complete oppression. As a business owner I haven't paid myself a salary in years, I put everything back into business. Fuck all governments, they are basically racketeers, murderers and thieves and nothing more than that at all.
I explained what UBI is, modern day Communism as it will inevitably lead to nationalization of private property and of-course as all forms of collectivism will crash both, individual rights and the economy. No taxation scheme can change this basic reality.
Your lack of reading comprehension this time is absolutely baffling, I cannot imagine why you wrote what you wrote in response to the comment that you replied to... you make less than 0 sense.
What you don't understand (and I am an ANCAP) is that there are people who do not qualify for meaningful employment at the costs set up by government (minimum wage, lawsuits based on any form of discrimination, harassment, etc.) There are unemployable people out there who will be on welfare if nobody hires them. If a company hires that person and pays him or her something and the person gets more from any other sources (there shouldn't be any welfare, food stamps, etc. but as long as they exist that's a source that can be taken advantage of).
Minimum wage is simply minimum ability. By increasing minimum wage all that the society will get will be this: people with fewer marketable skills and traits will be left behind and the jobs will be reallocated to people with more marketable skills, but clearly there will be fewer jobs.
I run a company, ask me why if you want, I will explain. I make money by selling my services to my clients, we are building the services I sell at my company and I have to be able to afford this development. The people I hire get paid from the money that the clients pay me. I can afford certain number of people, I have multiple offices, I outsource. If I had to pay more per hour than I am paying already, I would cut the workforce and for that hire rate I would only get people who qualify to be paid that much.
I hire people off the street, some don't know how to develop, don't have experience, are recent graduates, some never went to a university of a college, they build the skills in my company. If I am forced to pay a higher rate, I would have fewer people, but the people I have would all be at a higher starting level, thus leaving lower starting level people behind.
Do you understand my points at all, even close? Government can only make some people unemployable with their rules, they cannot make me hire people that are not worth the money.
Reminds me of a joke: A kid is asking his father: -Daddy, who did you actually want, a boy or a girl? The guy replies: -Actually I wanted your mother...
'wealth evenly distributed' - well that's a nonsensical idea. Wealth cannot and should not be 'evenly distributed', somebody will always be more efficient than many other people, thus wealth will never be 'evenly distributed', nor should it be.
Obviously UBI is a modern version of Communism and it will require a totalitarian regime with full individual oppression, private property confiscation, everything that leads to wonderful outcomes that we should all be familiar with...
The countries that are 'half way there' are also either getting out of it or they are going towards self destruction, all forms of collectivism end up in economic destruction, some take longer some get there quicker.
The only thing that has no basis in reality is the idea that UBI will lead to prosperity instead of economic destruction. I explain that UBI is a modern version of Communism and as with all forms of collectivism this one too, will eat itself and the people will end up miserable, oppressed, some will be dead and everybody will be poor.
Who pays the debts? USA pays the debts? First of all there is no law requiring that USA pays all debts. Secondly USA does not pay any debts, it prints money and buys Treasuries off of the market through the Fed, it does not pay debts, it returns paper that is being devalued with each newly printed (or electronically created) note. Returning paper that is devalued is the opposite of 'paying debts'. USA should pay debts though but it is impossible because USA debts are completely unpayable by the USA economy and can never be paid. Thus USA debts will be defaulted as they were *multiple times*, one very obvious time was when Nixon defaulted on the gold payable by the Fed for US dollars held by foreign governments. This happened in 1971. If you don't understand that USA doesn't pay debts at all that's not my problem, that's your public government education fault.
Defaulting on the unpayable debts in an honest fashion through restructuring and some form of a reduced payment program would be preferable for the USA economy to the collapse based on inflation (money printing) that US government is choosing to go with.
I don't post as AC. I post either as roman_mir or udachny (the very reason for my 2 accounts is because I do not post as AC). If there is something worth saying I will say it under my user name, otherwise it's not worth saying it. I am not the AC you are replying to.
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There is absolutely ZERO reason a cancer treatment should cost over $100,000 a year. None. Nada. Zip.
- hmmm, excuse me? If I start selling a treatment I came up with for some serious disease, HIV, Cancer, some genetic problems, whatever, whatever, I should be able to charge anything at all that I want, it's my stuff, it's not yours. You don't want to buy it or you can't afford to buy it, who is forcing you?
Now the actual problem with government is that it tries to 'help' you and creates incentives that make no sense, like employment tied insurance. People should be able to buy insurance not only across State lines but anywhere on the planet, you should be able to buy insurance from Singapore if they gave you a good deal for it there.
You shouldn't be forced to buy insurance but AFAIC hospitals must not be forced to provide anybody with any form of care for free either. Government shouldn't be in any business, this includes health care or health insurance as well.
There shouldn't be such a thing as Medicare or SS in the first place. The young shouldn't be forced to pay for the old but they are. The young are constantly forced to pay for the old with these chain letters, ponzi scams that are things like SS or Medicare, etc. Those are ponzi scams and nothing more than that, if they were legitimate savings there would be more than IOUs there and they wouldn't be handled by any government in the first place.
*WHY* would any *SANE* person allow a government, *ANY* government handle their retirement fund and health care? AFAIC the young of today will not have any SS, they will not have anything given to them by the young of the future, they should rebel now and stop having their money stolen from them by this collectivist nonsense. They should stop paying all income and wealth related taxes, what the fuck would the government do if say 20% of the income earning population just stopped paying? Hang some in the town square? Fuck the government, fuck the empty promises, fuck the obligations that the old voted themselves at the expense of the young.
I am an ancap, so no democrat, no liberal here (but also no republican, no conservative). Reagan didn't create an economic boom, the economic boom was created as a result of the cleansing of the debt that happened after a decade of stagflation that was abruptly stopped by Paul Volcker in 1981, when he raised interest rates to 21.5%
The necessary deleveraging allowed for the savings to be rebuilt quickly to restart the economy but eventually the government spending and the preceding default on the gold dollar in 1971 by Nixon allowed Reagan to get into more debt by delivering the impossible promises, the interest rates were pushed lower and lower, allowing debt monetization. Basically the default on the gold dollar and all of the inflation created by the Fed in the last 100 years is what has destroyed the US economy.
As an ancap, objectivists I am against all forms of government on principle and will always be against all forms of government on principle. There is 0 chance of me working with a 'green' (a communist actually, somebody who is against individual freedoms, against private ownership and private control of property).
This absolutely does not mean I am somehow 'against environment', AFAIC all property must be private, every single last bit of it, only then can it be meaningfully managed.
Again, why the fuck would people who want individual liberty form a coalition with people who despise individual liberty and want nothing to do with private property rights or generally individual self determination?
Greens are the communists of today, why the fuck with libertarians, ancaps, objectivists work with them???? Explain.
Why the *fuck* would a libertarian vote for a fucking piece of shit collectivist communist that is Stein? Explain.
Oh, sure, States are a fiction but the federal government is reality, right? How about this: fuck the federal government, all States should secede, form independent countries (and split further or join together with some States if they like). I am all for complete disassociation of one from another, we should have the right to associate with people we want to associate with and not be forced to associate with people we do not want.
Why is USA a country? A person is born in the USA that was not of their choice, that person can have/develop views on freedom, on collectivism, on government that are totally unaligned with the majority that surrounds them. Today USA is at least 2 different countries politically speaking, I would say it is closer to 3 countries than 2 even.
There are collectivists (Statists) who are subdivided into Christians and others. You have your non-collectivists (anti-Statists) who are also subdivided, but their absolute numbers are too low to worry about finer division.
These are not the people who should be forced by the circumstance of their birth to live under the system that they were born into. Of-course the very concept of States and of the Federal government allows for this type of division but it basically is a failed experiment at this point, it no longer delegates *some* power to the federal government, in general the federal government is omnipotent now, the States are irrelevant.
This is a failure of the system that can be fixed by splitting the country into 3 political systems, the USA needs to be split across some lines (easier said than done of-course) that would wall off (funny, isn't it) the populations that don't really belong with each other from each other.
I already answered this about 10,000 times, I don't want any government doing anything, from infrastructure, to health care, to education, to money, to insurance, to police, to fire, anything even including defence (should be done privately with a private company being hired to do so and has to be paid upfront with war bonds if necessary). Nothing should be done by any government whatsoever.
You're highly delusional. On this side of the Atlantic we pay our taxes and we like it.
- *who* the fuck is 'we' exactly? I lived in many places on this planet, four years in Germany, spent time in the UK and Switzerland, not only USA and Canada (born in the former USSR, lived in Israel as well). Who the fuck is 'we'? Not the people who matter, not the people who actually *run* businesses, not the people who are on the short side of this fucking stick.
You think somebody wants to pay for your medical care or for your anything for that matter that they get robbed to pay for? I know of-course how they rat each other out in Germany, one has to be careful there. I also am very acutely aware how people travel from France to Germany to do jobs that they do not pay taxes on at all while getting those subsidise back in France. I know how people move money around, I know how people avoid taxation and they evade it as well. Nobody wants to pay for you, you are delusional and you are going to recognize the depth of your delusion shortly.
There shouldn't be any income, any corporate, any wealth taxes at all. Your insane collectivist governments will eventually fall once there are no more jobs left for the collectivists and all the jobs move anywhere where the collectivists cannot get them.
As a freelancer working out of an Ltd, I got a tax ruling stating how much salary I should pay myself as a "director-major shareholder" (there's a minimum based on the kind of company and revenue).
- that's pure insanity and complete oppression. As a business owner I haven't paid myself a salary in years, I put everything back into business. Fuck all governments, they are basically racketeers, murderers and thieves and nothing more than that at all.
I explained what UBI is, modern day Communism as it will inevitably lead to nationalization of private property and of-course as all forms of collectivism will crash both, individual rights and the economy. No taxation scheme can change this basic reality.
Jill Stein is an amazing communist from hell even though she invests like an amazing capitalist who strongly believes in fossil fuels and war profiteering. AFAIC she or Sanders or anybody like that should never be in positions where they could actually influence politics, yet they are, which shows the insanity of modern society.
Your lack of reading comprehension this time is absolutely baffling, I cannot imagine why you wrote what you wrote in response to the comment that you replied to... you make less than 0 sense.
What you don't understand (and I am an ANCAP) is that there are people who do not qualify for meaningful employment at the costs set up by government (minimum wage, lawsuits based on any form of discrimination, harassment, etc.) There are unemployable people out there who will be on welfare if nobody hires them. If a company hires that person and pays him or her something and the person gets more from any other sources (there shouldn't be any welfare, food stamps, etc. but as long as they exist that's a source that can be taken advantage of).
Minimum wage is simply minimum ability. By increasing minimum wage all that the society will get will be this: people with fewer marketable skills and traits will be left behind and the jobs will be reallocated to people with more marketable skills, but clearly there will be fewer jobs.
I run a company, ask me why if you want, I will explain. I make money by selling my services to my clients, we are building the services I sell at my company and I have to be able to afford this development. The people I hire get paid from the money that the clients pay me. I can afford certain number of people, I have multiple offices, I outsource. If I had to pay more per hour than I am paying already, I would cut the workforce and for that hire rate I would only get people who qualify to be paid that much.
I hire people off the street, some don't know how to develop, don't have experience, are recent graduates, some never went to a university of a college, they build the skills in my company. If I am forced to pay a higher rate, I would have fewer people, but the people I have would all be at a higher starting level, thus leaving lower starting level people behind.
Do you understand my points at all, even close? Government can only make some people unemployable with their rules, they cannot make me hire people that are not worth the money.
Reminds me of a joke:
A kid is asking his father: -Daddy, who did you actually want, a boy or a girl?
The guy replies: -Actually I wanted your mother...
'wealth evenly distributed' - well that's a nonsensical idea. Wealth cannot and should not be 'evenly distributed', somebody will always be more efficient than many other people, thus wealth will never be 'evenly distributed', nor should it be.
Obviously UBI is a modern version of Communism and it will require a totalitarian regime with full individual oppression, private property confiscation, everything that leads to wonderful outcomes that we should all be familiar with...
I beg to differ. UBI is a modern version of Communism and as all such schemes it will end up in destruction, misery, murder and poverty, it will not start more businesses because it will ensure that all productive property is nationalized.
UBI is a modern version of Communism and as all such schemes it will end up in destruction, misery, murder and poverty.
The countries that are 'half way there' are also either getting out of it or they are going towards self destruction, all forms of collectivism end up in economic destruction, some take longer some get there quicker.
UBI is a modern version of Communism and as all such schemes it will end up in destruction, misery, murder and poverty.
The only thing that has no basis in reality is the idea that UBI will lead to prosperity instead of economic destruction. I explain that UBI is a modern version of Communism and as with all forms of collectivism this one too, will eat itself and the people will end up miserable, oppressed, some will be dead and everybody will be poor.
Who pays the debts? USA pays the debts? First of all there is no law requiring that USA pays all debts. Secondly USA does not pay any debts, it prints money and buys Treasuries off of the market through the Fed, it does not pay debts, it returns paper that is being devalued with each newly printed (or electronically created) note. Returning paper that is devalued is the opposite of 'paying debts'. USA should pay debts though but it is impossible because USA debts are completely unpayable by the USA economy and can never be paid. Thus USA debts will be defaulted as they were *multiple times*, one very obvious time was when Nixon defaulted on the gold payable by the Fed for US dollars held by foreign governments. This happened in 1971. If you don't understand that USA doesn't pay debts at all that's not my problem, that's your public government education fault.
Defaulting on the unpayable debts in an honest fashion through restructuring and some form of a reduced payment program would be preferable for the USA economy to the collapse based on inflation (money printing) that US government is choosing to go with.
I don't post as AC. I post either as roman_mir or udachny (the very reason for my 2 accounts is because I do not post as AC). If there is something worth saying I will say it under my user name, otherwise it's not worth saying it. I am not the AC you are replying to.