Re: novel argument against taxing rents

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:43:05 -0400, Robert Vienneau
<rvien@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

She has a point with the latter, as they rarely show a profit. But I
can't imagine why she would have put prostitutes in such unsavory
company....

-- Roy L
.