NP but robots and robber barons

[alice wellintown]

Right, and when profits go down and taxes up the corporations will, after
visits from our ghosts, hire people and give the medical coverage and
pensions. All we need to do is fit ourselves into a dickens novel. The
solution, as krug has argued for some time now, is not taxes. Cutting or
raising taxes won't do the Job, it's just politics, it's just smoke for
what we need and for what both sides want, that is, spending. The tax up or
down is political spin. Cut taxes and some won' t be spent, but saved. So
spend.  Why would any idiot advocate taxes? Politics. It's not economics.
But the budget. The budget is more politics. Fuck the budget. Spend, get he
economy to grow faster. It's that simple. End this slow recovery now.

On Tuesday, December 11, 2012, Markekohut wrote:

> Yes, I do want them all to go down some.....by being taxed more or in
> profit-sharing to the workers......enuff do that and demand rises
> noticeably.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > alice wellintown wrote:
> >
> >>> Two. corporate profits. Records. Sure enough. Do we want them to go
> down?
> >
> > record profits is not a meaningful statistic, from an economic point
> > of view -- even a group of investors about to buy the company would
> > want to know about the ratio of profits to wages and other
> > expenses...if only so as to know how many thugs they will need to hire
> > to suppress unionization and how many lies they will have to tell to
> > try to motivate the employees who are getting exploited
>
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