So, what you're saying is w/o income tax, what is given to me, is mine, not just partially mine. Similar deal for estate taxes, correct? The government taking cash away from my heirs falls into the "they're taking what's not theirs" category, correct?
But assume that income tax and estate tax are ended. What happens when everyone minimizes their tax-paying? More to the point, what happens when you decide to pay as little money as possible so that you can give as much as possible to your heirs? And they do likewise? It seems as though you lose some kind of... fluidity in the market (pardon my weak wording here).
I guess there's two questions here, is there a problem with having money escape from the system? And is there a solution other than income/estate taxes that more effectively prevents any such problem?
So, what would be the theoretical downside of having DNS work like Gnutella? Distributed TLDs?
Hell, you don't even need to rewrite DNS resolution to use anything other than bind, you just need some new TLD servers. Anyone out there have bandwidth to spare? A lot of bandwidth?
The only reason they have the power to put 72 business execs and 1 non-biz-affiliated person on a board is because we give them the power.
Okay, I think I've finally figured out why I dislike the "Geek Revolution." "We've been oppressed for so long, and now we have the power to change that!" Now we're going to cut down, jeer at, and generally scoff in the general direction of anyone who won't call themselves a geek. We will form our own (exclusive) society to get back at all the exclusive societies we were never a part of.
"I'm a geek too!" seems to be a far-too-common call these days. It's meaningless. Remember when it was cool to be "Alternative?" It's the whole story of everyone wanting to be the outsider, but noone willing to give up all social aspects of life to do it (not that I blame them, the human soul needs social contact). Trendy. That's the word, and I hate it.
If you want to follow the crowd of people and all of you are happy patting each other on the back for being "Geeky" dispite your trials and tribulations, be my guest. If it makes you feel better to be part of the "Geek Revolution", even though you never had a hard time in school, at work, or where ever, be my guest.
I am not a geek or a nerd or a suit or a artist or a poster (usually). I am Jason and although you can catagorize me, I refuse to accept your labels. I am Jason, no more or less.
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So, what you're saying is w/o income tax, what is given to me, is mine, not just partially mine. Similar deal for estate taxes, correct? The government taking cash away from my heirs falls into the "they're taking what's not theirs" category, correct?
But assume that income tax and estate tax are ended. What happens when everyone minimizes their tax-paying? More to the point, what happens when you decide to pay as little money as possible so that you can give as much as possible to your heirs? And they do likewise? It seems as though you lose some kind of... fluidity in the market (pardon my weak wording here).
I guess there's two questions here, is there a problem with having money escape from the system? And is there a solution other than income/estate taxes that more effectively prevents any such problem?
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Hell, you don't even need to rewrite DNS resolution to use anything other than bind, you just need some new TLD servers. Anyone out there have bandwidth to spare? A lot of bandwidth?
The only reason they have the power to put 72 business execs and 1 non-biz-affiliated person on a board is because we give them the power.
Okay, I think I've finally figured out why I dislike the "Geek Revolution." "We've been oppressed for so long, and now we have the power to change that!" Now we're going to cut down, jeer at, and generally scoff in the general direction of anyone who won't call themselves a geek. We will form our own (exclusive) society to get back at all the exclusive societies we were never a part of.
"I'm a geek too!" seems to be a far-too-common call these days. It's meaningless. Remember when it was cool to be "Alternative?" It's the whole story of everyone wanting to be the outsider, but noone willing to give up all social aspects of life to do it (not that I blame them, the human soul needs social contact). Trendy. That's the word, and I hate it.
If you want to follow the crowd of people and all of you are happy patting each other on the back for being "Geeky" dispite your trials and tribulations, be my guest. If it makes you feel better to be part of the "Geek Revolution", even though you never had a hard time in school, at work, or where ever, be my guest.
I am not a geek or a nerd or a suit or a artist or a poster (usually). I am Jason and although you can catagorize me, I refuse to accept your labels. I am Jason, no more or less.