Re: Will the IRS Ultimately become the Enforcer of Both Those Who Don't Comply With HR3962, as well as Carbon Taxgate?

This has nothing whatever to do with a space based economy.

More germane is this

http://marinebiztv.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/world-shipping-tonnage-capacity-hits-112-billion-deadweight/

World shipping industry consists of a 'lift' capacity of 1.12 billion
deadweight tons. With 'cycle times' of 90 days, this represents 4.5
billion tons. Fifty percent of this shipping capacity serves the
richest 1.1 billion people in the world. Americas, Europe, Asian
Tigers. This is 2 tons per person per year. To achieve this flow of
raw material for 8 billion people means increasing processing capacity
to 16 billion tons per year. To meet the needs of 8 billion
millionaires - through other analysis - shows that something on the
order of 25 billion tons per year would be needed.

To achieve these ends, with existing technologies, and existing free
capital (there are 10.1 million millionaires who control $40 trillion
in liquid wealth today - which vastly exceeds ALL the world's
governments combined (total liquid wealth in the world is $58 trillion
with $12 trillion controlled by governments and $6 trillion for
everyone else (and $40 trillion the millionaires)))

Getting things started with say 10% of this total, $4 trillion, and
growing internally from profits earned, is where public policy should
start.

Stated previously, there are no property rights off-world, no means of
administering property rights off-world, no way to invest in
developing properties off-world, etc.

This is quite separate from the issues surrounding the shortcomings of
present forms of government and business as a way to organize human
affairs rationally.

It is also quite separate from issues surrounding the technical
challenges of meeting the needs of human industry using off-world
assets and resources.

The point is,

1) we have the technical means and have had the technical means for
the past fifty years to do whatever we wanted in the solar system;

2) the solar system has sufficient resources to meet all human
industrial needs while reducing the impact of human industry on the
Earth's biosphere

3) the world's richest people have more than enough liquid assets to
develop the technical means to develop off-world resources

4) the world's most powerful governments have gone out of their way to
remove the technical means from the industrial sector to develop
offworld resources out of a mistaken notion of national security and
global security.

5) this has created an artificial scarcity of resources that has
created a real challenge to national security and global security.

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