Re: novel argument against taxing rents

In article <yIednadeDqkxrKbZnZ2dnUVZ_t2dnZ2d@xxxxxxx>, "tonyp"
<tonyp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some people want heroin, hookers, or hip-hop. Pushers, pimps, and punks
are
therefore productive? Okay.

I think Rosa Luxemburg, writing from quite a different tradition,
used priests, prostitutes, and publishers of liberal newspapers
as her canonical examples of unproductive labor.

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