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  • ScoobyDoo
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    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
    Great growth you put out there, Obummer. I'm sure you're going to point the finger or resort to your fake news whine... http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017...te-working-on/
    He's the worst? Really? Anyone look at GW's numbers after the crash?

    Another idiot article written by an idiot.

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  • FlagDUDE08
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    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Great growth you put out there, Obummer. I'm sure you're going to point the finger or resort to your fake news whine... http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017...te-working-on/

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  • Kepler
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    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
    Actually, fallout from the Black Plague is what created the middle class in the first place. Labor became a premium, and the lords had little choice but to increase the pay of highly skilled serfs that eventually became the merchant class.
    Not really a middle class, more of a first working class, as distinct from serfs who were essentially slaves.

    The Middle Class was created when the Ruling Class figured out it needed healthy, educated and numerous citizens for industrialization and especially for industrialized warfare. That fueled the workers rights movements through the 19th century and then the populist movements, and finally the blossoming of the Middle Class in the 20th century.

    Now that industrial labor has been superseded out by robotics, the Ruling Class no longer needs us, so we are gradually being reduced back to serfdom.

    The only way anyone ever took power from the Ruling Class was coercion: either by the gun or because it was also in the cold equations of their economic necessity. The former is inherently stable, so the simplest and most effective method has always been the latter. But the problem with the latter is times change, and the fist is always there waiting to strike.

    What conservatives have done for the last fifty years, some knowingly, many as dupes, is removed the chains we had briefly put on that fist, and removed our shields. They loathe democratic government because it protects everyone equally. They long for the freedom of wolves in the fold. That, for them, is "fairness."
    Last edited by Kepler; 01-19-2017, 11:58 AM.

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  • St. Clown
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    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Originally posted by joecct View Post
    2017 is better than 1917 which was better than 1817 which was better than 1717, etc. Unless there's a plague, a collapse of civilization or a global catastrophe the standard of living will get better
    Actually, fallout from the Black Plague is what created the middle class in the first place. Labor became a premium, and the lords had little choice but to increase the pay of highly skilled serfs that eventually became the merchant class.

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  • joecct
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    Originally posted by unofan View Post
    If you think that the standard of living in 19th century America was anywhere close to today's, I've got a bridge to sell you.
    2017 is better than 1917 which was better than 1817 which was better than 1717, etc. Unless there's a plague, a collapse of civilization or a global catastrophe the standard of living will get better

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  • FlagDUDE08
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    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    Yep, and we've been regretting it ever since as it incentifies CEOs to build up the shareprice and cash out, and the hell with the future.

    Far better for options to be on a long time scale -- no cash out for, say, 25 years. Make the CEO build a company that will last.
    Not to mention the stock price jumps that come with merger announcements...

    But I'm not sure the options would necessarily help. Take a look at what Mark Cuban did when Yahoo bought Broadcast.com... lots of puts to protect his money.

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  • Kepler
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    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
    Oddly enough, that practice went into overdrive when Pres. Clinton signed into law a pay ceiling for CEOs, limiting how much cash they could be paid. Had he not done that, they would still receive more cash than stock, and the government would receive slightly more aggregated tax income.
    Yep, and we've been regretting it ever since as it incentifies CEOs to build up the shareprice and cash out, and the hell with the future.

    Far better for options to be on a long time scale -- no cash out for, say, 25 years. Make the CEO build a company that will last.

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  • FlagDUDE08
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    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
    Oddly enough, that practice went into overdrive when Pres. Clinton signed into law a pay ceiling for CEOs, limiting how much cash they could be paid. Had he not done that, they would still receive more cash than stock, and the government would receive slightly more aggregated tax income.
    Reminds me a bit of FDR.

    Is that law even still on the books, BTW? Sort of like how Dodd-Frank was amended so Congress could still do insider trading?

    Also, I wonder how many of these CEOs have "charities", similar to the Clinton Foundation, from which they take salary?

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  • St. Clown
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    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
    And yet who does the income tax target? Those you're trying to protect. The wealthy CEOs receive their "pay" in stock options and other not-yet-taxable instruments.
    Oddly enough, that practice went into overdrive when Pres. Clinton signed into law a pay ceiling for CEOs, limiting how much cash they could be paid. Had he not done that, they would still receive more cash than stock, and the government would receive slightly more aggregated tax income.

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  • FlagDUDE08
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    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    The vast majority of people living in dire poverty, and we didn't "need" an income tax until they had the vote and newspapers that espoused their views?

    What an incredible coincidence!
    And yet who does the income tax target? Those you're trying to protect. The wealthy CEOs receive their "pay" in stock options and other not-yet-taxable instruments.

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  • FadeToBlack&Gold
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    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    Another good consequence of low oil prices: the Saudis and Kuwaitis have taken it in the shorts.
    Good. I hate considering religious police states as "allies".

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  • Kepler
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    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Another good consequence of low oil prices: the Saudis and Kuwaitis have taken it in the shorts.

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  • unofan
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    Originally posted by joecct View Post
    And yet, for the most part, we didn't have/need an income tax until a century or so ago. Duties and excise taxes, sure. But confiscating personal income? Nada and they needed a constitutional amendment to do it.

    Our federal government is notably inefficient. Give them $1, they'll spend $2. Give them $2, they'll spend $3. Toss in a foreign entanglement and spending goes though the roof. THAT'S when you need an income tax. Once the entanglement ends, abolish the tax.
    If you think that the standard of living in 19th century America was anywhere close to today's, I've got a bridge to sell you.

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  • Kepler
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    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Originally posted by joecct View Post
    And yet, for the most part, we didn't have/need an income tax until a century or so ago. Duties and excise taxes, sure. But confiscating personal income? Nada and they needed a constitutional amendment to do it.
    The vast majority of people living in dire poverty, and we didn't "need" an income tax until they had the vote and newspapers that espoused their views?

    What an incredible coincidence!

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  • joecct
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    Originally posted by unofan View Post
    It's the admission price for living in a civilization.
    And yet, for the most part, we didn't have/need an income tax until a century or so ago. Duties and excise taxes, sure. But confiscating personal income? Nada and they needed a constitutional amendment to do it.

    Our federal government is notably inefficient. Give them $1, they'll spend $2. Give them $2, they'll spend $3. Toss in a foreign entanglement and spending goes though the roof. THAT'S when you need an income tax. Once the entanglement ends, abolish the tax.

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