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здесьГлаза на правду о налогах ей открыл некто Warren Mosler. Читайте сами:
[Says Mosler] To get the population to do all that work, the government imposes taxes, fees, fines, or other obligations. The tax is there to create a demand for the government’s currency. Before anyone can pay the tax, someone has to do the work to earn the currency.
My head spun. [Умище-то куда денешь?] Then he told me a story.
Mosler had a beautiful beachfront property with a swimming pool and all the luxuries of life anyone could hope to enjoy. He also had a family that included two young kids. To illustrate his point, he told me a story about the time he sat his kids down and told them he wanted them to do their part to help keep the place clean and habitable. He wanted the yard mowed, beds made, dishes done, cars washed, and so on. To compensate them for their time, he offered to pay them for their labor. Three of his business cards if they made their beds. Five for doing the dishes. Ten for washing a car and twenty-five for tending to the yard work. Days turned into weeks, and the house became increasingly uninhabitable. The grass grew knee high. Dishes piled up in the sink, and the cars were covered in sand and salt from the ocean breeze. “Why aren’t you doing any work?” Mosler asked the kids. “I told you I would pay you some of my business cards to pitch in around here.” “D-a-a-a-a-ad,” the kids intoned. “Why would we work for your business cards? They’re not worth anything!”
That’s when Mosler had his epiphany. [Гигант мысли!] The kids hadn’t done any chores because they didn’t need his cards. [Duh!] So, he told the kids he wasn’t requiring them to do any work at all. All he wanted was a payment of thirty of his business cards, each month. Failure to pay would result in a loss of privileges. No more TV, use of the swimming pool, or trips to the mall. It was a stroke of genius. Mosler had imposed a “tax” that could only be paid using his own monogrammed paper. Now the cards were worth something.
Within hours, the kids were scurrying around, tidying up their bedrooms, the kitchen, and the yard. What was once considered a worthless rectangular calling card was suddenly perceived as a valuable token. But why? How did Mosler get the kids to do all that work without forcing them to do any chores? Simple. He put them in a situation where they needed to earn his “currency” to stay out of trouble. Each time the kids did some work, they got a receipt (some business cards) for the task they had performed. At the end of the month, the kids returned the cards to their father.
Ну, теперь давайте quick show of hands. Кому кажется, что устройство дел в хозяйстве
домашнего тирана Warren Mosler очень напоминает то как устроена реальная экономика?
Потом она пишет, что у налогообложения есть и другие функции из которых важнейшей является
кино перераспределение денег от богатых к бедным.
Она, конечно, не такя дура чтоб отвечать на вопросы в Твиттере, но очень бы хотелось взять ее за воротничок, посадить на стул перед камерой и задать несколько нелицеприятных вопросов.
Возвращаясь к книге, всё что там есть умного можно сформулировать ответом Алана Гринспэна на вопрос Пола Райана (причем Келтон даже не поняла что именно он спрашивал но это сейчас неважно т.к. Гринспэн сказал что хотел) на слушаниях в Конгрессе. Вопрос был про Social Security и о том как там скоро кончатся деньги.
I wouldn’t say that the pay-as-you-go benefits are insecure,” he said, “in the sense that there’s nothing to prevent the federal government from creating as much money as it wants and paying it to somebody.
How do you set up a system which assures that the real assets are created which those benefits are employed to purchase?
Т.е. проблема не в деньгах как таковых, а в том чтобы на них было что купить. Келтон в восторге от этого прямого и честного ответа (в частности и потому, что Гринспэн пока был при должности ничего такого не говорил) и делает вид, что эти real assets будут созданы руками бывших безработных на службе у г-ва.
She also quotes Northwestern economics professor Robert Eisner:
Social Security faces no crisis now or in the future. It will not go bankrupt. It will “be there,” not only for those of us now enjoying it or looking forward to it in the near future, but for the baby boomers and the “Generation Xers” following them. All this is true as long as those who would nibble away at Social Security or destroy it in the name of “privatization” do not have their political way. But they very likely will not, since the elderly—and their children—vote, and will vote sensibly as the full implications of the issue become apparent.
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