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That was your point; not mine. My point was that you are insane to suggest we must print the money we need without borrowing it. You are confused, of course -- when have you not been?.

there won't be a wall if Mexico has to pay for it! If you want to pay for it, you're a fool. It would be a very bad investment. And how does one hug a tree with limp wrists. What do you do, just try to squeeze it between your forearms?

I have not a clue what you are referring to. Could you please quote me as suggesting this, so I can at least understand why you are addressing this strange remark to me. Perhaps you had someone else in mind.

The absurdity of your remark is not so much related to your comment on the income tax (there are other ways to fund government) but rather to the insanity of suggesting that we just print as much money as we need without connecting it to borrowing. I only included the introductory clause of...

Why did you vote for Trump then! ; for God's sake man. Again, look in the mirror. By the way, that position of yours is classical Hayekian. Shown by vast experience to be incorrect. Markets don't just eventually reach full employment if you sit back and do nothing as Hayek said they would...

You are an amazing font of information, Jem, that is virtually beyond compare; well, maybe Scat is your near equal.

Ha ha ha, you posted, "Income tax is unneeded to fund the govt. The govt could just create the dollars and not borrow them." And now you are calling other ET posters "crazies" !!! It may be time for you to look in the mirror.

Os course it is not free. And it is not nearly as good as it could be.

If the general educational level of the population is above average for developed nations the physical infrastructure should more or less take care of itself. Here is an example of what I mean by that. During Katrina New Orleans suffered practically no wind damage have received only a glancing...

That's what we have in Mississippi where I live. comcast is faster but less reliable. goes down often in the middle of the day. Much of the country's older cities have aging water and sewer systems with many problems.

The single most important infrastructure component of any country is the educational level of its population. But that's very long term pay-off, so it isn't a project with great visibility in just four years. We should pay Mississippi to secede. If Mississippi left the Union, the average...

appreciate your taking the time to explain in detail what is going on. It seems to me there should be much better coordination between the IRS and the immigration people. Especially when the IRS gets an ITIN filing! That should be a red flag and everyone of those should be investigated. I...

The results properly reflect the will of empty space however!

Thank you very, very much. It is so easy for truth to be buried under financial interests, or bananas, as the case would have it. And once it is buried a new "truth" is invented and believed: The U.S. as the protector of human rights in Latin America. We are of course the most dangerous...

Well I would agree, except for the non-sequitur. It is hard to see how "land belonging to whoever can steal it", which seems historically true, can be compatible with "fair laws, equal justice and respect for property." Clever lawyers can no doubt surmount this problem.

Of course not, let's not be ridiculous. Batista's "crimes" were more in the nature of legal stealing, with U.S. blessings, and quietly, one assumes silencers were used, liquidating or locking up those who refused to look the other way. Castro's folks lined up and shot folks who opposed his...

Perhaps there is a lot of misplaced anger here. There doesn't seem to be equal concern that employers follow the law. One would think that the IRS would coordinate with the immigration people. Apparently not. To get tax credits I think you have to file a tax return? If chicken processors hire...

In the case of the Cuban Revolution, the alignment was more or less typical. "they" = "Labor" : "those connected to power" = "Capital"

It's good to be familiar with Cuban history, domination by the U.S., the Fulgencio Batista era, and the revolution in which hardly a shot was fired. It was a revolution between capital and labor, as with many other revolutions (notably not the American Revolution, however). In the aftermath of...

I sent a physicist colleague the citation to Ferenc Miskolczi's paper. If he as an opinion on it, I'll let you guys know what it is.