Re: Drill Now for oil

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:30:53 +0000, James Arthur wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
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How about a fixed wage, $40 should be OK, paid for a 40 hour week, no
matter whether you have a job or not? Then everybody would pay exactly
the same income tax... that would simplify the bookkeeping.

Even better! Everyone's a winner, and everyone gets a prize.

The most common complaints are not that a particular person is doing
poorly, but that someone else is getting more. CEOs, oil companies, etc.
This proposal would fix that completely.

And civic-minded go-getters would be inspired to work harder than ever
(within their 40-hour limit) to make things better for everyone else.

And when everybody gets a $40 handout, how do you get anybody to work
at all, except at gunpoint? For the most part, people are quite lazy.

Thanks,
Rich

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