Re: The best of times, the worst of times
From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:45:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <78a8845e-efd3-440b-bf69-9d1e774ec530_at_iu9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 19, 5:15 pm, Noons <wizofo..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 20, 6:55 am, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been saying it since the Jarvis people started their "tax
> > revolution" in the late '70's, when they greedily vultured Jerry
> > Brown's huge surplus: You need to collect taxes to pay for stuff, you
> > can't just fertilize the business environment to stimulate growth and
> > complain government is too big. That's just fertilizer, a polite term
> > for bullshit. It works for a while until the farmland gets burned out
> > and you have to let it lay fallow.
>
> You mean "growth is infinitely sustainable" as an economic model is
> after all an imbecile strategy that can only exist in the minds of an
> economist?
> Wonders will never cease!
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:45:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <78a8845e-efd3-440b-bf69-9d1e774ec530_at_iu9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 19, 5:15 pm, Noons <wizofo..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 20, 6:55 am, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been saying it since the Jarvis people started their "tax
> > revolution" in the late '70's, when they greedily vultured Jerry
> > Brown's huge surplus: You need to collect taxes to pay for stuff, you
> > can't just fertilize the business environment to stimulate growth and
> > complain government is too big. That's just fertilizer, a polite term
> > for bullshit. It works for a while until the farmland gets burned out
> > and you have to let it lay fallow.
>
> You mean "growth is infinitely sustainable" as an economic model is
> after all an imbecile strategy that can only exist in the minds of an
> economist?
> Wonders will never cease!
I don't blame the economists (well, maybe Laffer and some U of Chicago clowns, and some Objectivists), this particular fail is a political problem.
>
> What we are all seeing now is the logical evolution and conclusion of
> a demented business and economic model that could not possibly be
> sustainable in the long run. Let's hope there is a way out - for
> those better than me to find it, I can't...
There's a way out for a small subset. For most, it's not pretty.
jg
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