carradjm | 7 years ago | on: It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town
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carradjm | 8 years ago | on: What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?
If I remember correctly, Peterson says that the Neo-Marxists followed up on the theories of postmodernism as a way to bring Marxist thought back into the academically-acceptable realm, and that led to where we are today. So, the author is slightly wrong in his description of Peterson's beliefs. He doesn't see Postmodernism as "thinly disguised Marxism". He see Neo-Marxism as having its roots in Postmodernism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5rUPatnXSE
Good video where he discusses these things in terms of political correctness.
carradjm | 8 years ago | on: Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point
Do you have proof of this? What are these visible and documented ways?
I'm not certain I completely understand your argument. Basically every explanation of LVT that I've come across says that it will decrease the amount of blighted land, as a land-value tax increases the incentive for landowners to improve their land.
carradjm | 8 years ago | on: Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
That quote is the exact reason that land needs to be taxed at a much higher rate than it's currently taxed. Notice I say "land", so that doesn't include anything built on that land.
The value of land is directly tied to the desirability of the land around it. Land in Manhattan is more valuable than land in the middle of South Dakota because of all the network effects of other people (and the government) building things in Manhattan.
carradjm | 8 years ago | on: Paying for Dirt: Where Have Home Values Detached from Construction Costs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism.
Don't mean to boil down your entire well-written post to a single point, but I maintain that Georgism is the only sensible solution to this problem.
carradjm | 8 years ago | on: Why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealthy Investors
Why should we want to tax income? If you tax something, you inherently affect the supply of it. I.e. taxing labor (income tax) will make people want to work less.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
We need to implement a land-value tax, if simply because taxing land does nothing to change the supply of land. Unless America decides to invade Mexico anytime soon, the value of land will not change.
I responded to another post in this thread with a link on Georgism as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax).
I see Georgism occasionally advocated for on Hacker News but I really wish I would see more discussion on it. IMHO, it is the only sensible tax and the most fair tax that economists have thought up.
carradjm | 8 years ago | on: Why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealthy Investors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
This is where we need to eventually transition.
carradjm | 8 years ago | on: When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
I hope more people will research Georgism and start trying to spread the idea around. It's the only tax-system that comes anywhere close to closing up any of these loopholes.
carradjm | 8 years ago | on: Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court
They absolutely should be able to express their ideas, as long as they do so in a peaceful and non-threatening way.
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Her speaking out against Amazon was her speaking out against something that is not within her sphere of competence or within her elected sphere of influence.