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Cassius
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« Reply #25 on: October 26, 2013, 03:34:26 PM »

Woulldn't it be cheaper and easier to use gas Opebo, rather than setting up and maintaining all of those guillotines... You wouldn't want to expend valuable monies on stamping out parasites Wink

Anyway, as for economic policies... Low taxes and relatively low levels of government spending, with a focus mainly upon the security obligations of the state, as well as its duty to maintain infrastructure. Try as best as possible to maintain balanced budgets and low levels of debt (hopefully pushing down to zero debt, if at all possible). Bung in a few quid here and there for medical research and the like.
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« Reply #26 on: October 26, 2013, 04:07:33 PM »

Kill the rich and eat their children.
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« Reply #27 on: October 26, 2013, 06:32:31 PM »

Kill the rich and eat their children.

This is what Obama has do e to our world. Look at the mindset of his followers.
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« Reply #28 on: October 28, 2013, 04:40:35 AM »

Woulldn't it be cheaper and easier to use gas Opebo, rather than setting up and maintaining all of those guillotines... You wouldn't want to expend valuable monies on stamping out parasites Wink

Not so, Cassy.  Good economics is that which increases consumption - so the most labor-and-investment intensive killing apparatus is the best.  Really blunt instruments would be ideal, at union wages.  But the guillotine has a lovely historical relevancy.
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« Reply #29 on: October 29, 2013, 06:38:32 PM »

Kill the rich and eat their children.

This is what Obama has do e to our world. Look at the mindset of his followers.

lol
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« Reply #30 on: October 29, 2013, 06:57:11 PM »

I assume that most people are either unable or unwilling to take control of major financial issues (i.e. health insurance, retirement, education, unemployment). Therefore, we must set up universal programs to help alleviate poverty/stupidity and calibrate tax policy to encourage people to make good economic decisions.

OTOH I think it's important for everyone to pay something and do something, so I've become more skeptical of minimum incomes as of late.

I favour progressive taxation, not to punish the rich, but because I think it's required in order to have a stable working class and finance my polices

In terms of policy:
  • Universal health care with the option to purchase private insurance
  • A national pension plan with generous incentives for the middle class to invest in the capital markets
  • Subsidized, but not free post-secondary education
  • A state Employment Insurance scheme that workers help finance
  • Subsidies for stay at home parents
  • Shift the highest tax rates from the upper middle class to the rich by taxing all kinds of income at the same rates.
  • Modest minimum incomes for those who are completely unable to work
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« Reply #31 on: November 02, 2013, 11:17:42 PM »

Kill the rich and eat their children.

This is what Obama has do e to our world. Look at the mindset of his followers.
YES KILL ALL THE RICH PEOPLE AND LET US EAT THE CHILDREN IT IS OUR DESTINY

I'm sorry but no.
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