Re:Forget Basic Income – We Need Guaranteed Employment
by ddingus on Sunday May 12, 2019 @12:05PM
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Depends.
Things like sane health care policy, this public labor, are all priority questions.
If we continue with huge military, then yes, but we do not have to play it that way at all.
Unlike a great many military actions, public works are investments that pay themselves off. We can absolutely spend, and let those returns pay the debt.
We should only be raising taxes on costs, not investments. And the public needs to understand which is which too.
Might begin to question the military actions. They are a massive drain, and given a priority discussion, an honest one, just may not be found necessary.
New priorities could yield insights like green energy infrastructure is needed like the Interstate Highway System was, and will pay itself off like that system did, and once paid off, will contiune to deliver returns that can pay down other past spends, that were costs, not investments, that did not deliver returns too.
Spends that make us worth more, are investments, not costs, and do not require an increase in taxes to do. They never have.
We will find support for doing those things. We will find more support when education on the differences is done too.
Right now, there is not much. I call that a disservice and manipulation for profit, as well as short sighted.
We need the new opportunities. The outcome does benefit everyone.
Things like sane health care policy, this public labor, are all priority questions.
If we continue with huge military, then yes, but we do not have to play it that way at all.
Unlike a great many military actions, public works are investments that pay themselves off. We can absolutely spend, and let those returns pay the debt.
We should only be raising taxes on costs, not investments. And the public needs to understand which is which too.
Might begin to question the military actions. They are a massive drain, and given a priority discussion, an honest one, just may not be found necessary.
New priorities could yield insights like green energy infrastructure is needed like the Interstate Highway System was, and will pay itself off like that system did, and once paid off, will contiune to deliver returns that can pay down other past spends, that were costs, not investments, that did not deliver returns too.
Spends that make us worth more, are investments, not costs, and do not require an increase in taxes to do. They never have.
We will find support for doing those things. We will find more support when education on the differences is done too.
Right now, there is not much. I call that a disservice and manipulation for profit, as well as short sighted.
We need the new opportunities. The outcome does benefit everyone.