Re: Relative poverty, a problem?


"Nospam" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Werner wrote:

You see, if you think you can find answers.
Contrary to libertarian belief, thinking is not harmfull.


Apparently if you think you can also find the wrong answers and cause
more poverty.
http://capitaldistrict-lp.org/Poverty.shtml
You see, thinking can indeed be harmful.

Nope. Lack of thinking it is harmfull.

You can not eradicate poverty while allowing all the causes that created
it
in first place to continue and exacerbate.

Look at the scandinavian countries, they were much more successfull.
So yes !!! It is possible if you strongly regulate the economic power to
prevent them to be harmfull.

Much better solution than regulating economic power is to rid the system of
economic power which is both immoral _and_ inefficient: private monopolies
on land. (This doesn't mean "increased" regulation, because the current
system is itself a product of regulation: government-granted titles to land
provided to privileged parties.)

Tax land value as heavily as is practicable, use the money to fund necessary
government activities and decrease taxes on production and consumption, and
loosen zoning regulations.

Economic theory and economic history both show the result will be a plunge
in the poverty rate.


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