Re: Taxing Intelligence/Talent (was: 'Waterhole' and land rents)

<royls@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:45b39bc2.11594150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:08:48 GMT, "Dan in Philly" <djr8@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

"Dan in Philly" wrote in message

That's why a tax on intelligence/talent may be unworkable. I don't see any
way to separate earnings due to intelligence from earnings due to effort.

Self-correction: effort is easy to measure (just add up hours worked).

??? ROTFL!!!! You obviously haven't worked with some of the people I
have worked with....

The real problem is this: some jobs are cushy whereas some are
dirty/difficult/dangerous. So we need some measure of how yucky a job is
before we can tax the 'rent.'

Taxing the "rent" of productive ability is an idiotic notion that is
merely the logically inevitable result of trying to substitute a
dishonest and misleading definition of economic rent for the honest
and most theoretically informative one.

Yup. True economic rent is NEVER "earned".

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