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andy@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) writes:
=For example, we could have all the govt spending we wanted, yet not
=have any taxes, tariffs, etc, by letting govt print the money we
=wanted it to spend.  Sure, there'd be an effect, but it would be
=unavoidable (no loopholes) and it would be "bad" only to the extent
=that the spending was silly.  (Note the extra incentive on everyone to
=make sure that govt spending under such a plan is useful.  There's
=nothing like inflation to get people's attention.)

Unfortunately, I doubt anything will be enough of an incentive to the
public - apathy, especially when combined with the way politics is currently
run, can't be overcome by anything.

=BTW - If you're going to point to EPA and Los Gatos and talk about how
=we can't have local only taxes because EPA can't support itself, I'll
=point out that under the current system, no one else does either.

You went over my head on this one - I didn't see a single article that
mentioned either the EPA or Los Gatos (the EPA shouldn't be in this
discussion anyway, since it is funded by the national gov't, not the state).


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