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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (32414)	2/15/2011 3:16:25 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Jacques, re opm and taxation - a finer point needs to be applied rather than catchall phrases. Citizens own the roads. Charging a toll could be called taxation but it would not be taxation in the normally used way. Tariffs at the border would also be called taxes but inasmuch as the border is ipso facto the definition of a country, it's not really taxation in the conventional sense. Renting spectrum to people is not taxation either, it's selling something the citizens owned for what the market will bear which is perfectly sensible. I'm in favour of such "taxation". There is no reason that publicly owned assets should be sold to favoured people for less than what the market will bear. The profits should be distributed as dividends to those owning a Tradable Citizenship. Tourists, criminals, foreign workers and other non-citizens would not be paid a dividend. All taxation is not opm. The implication of opm is that it's ill-gotten gains simply taken by force from others who have rightfully earned it and handed over to more favoured people. When I buy petrol, it's not "opm"; they earn it and I hand it over voluntarily. Mqurice