http://steadystate.org/two-robin-hood-taxes-for-the-price-of-one/ News of the Steady State Economy Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://steadystate.org/two-robin-hood-taxes-for-the-price-of-one/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Julian Hinton Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:02:06 +0000 http://steadystate.org/?p=1350#comment-254 Excellent ideaZ but the quibblers will be out in strength picking these suggestions to pieces, if they ever see the light of day in the mainstream media. Whatever happened to the Tobin tax? I even read that Tobin himself didn't like it. What hope is there if complex issues like this can be obscured by endless debate and seemingly erudite comments going back and forth, back and forth - but signifying nothing. We are not dealing with a rational system here. It is not amenable to reasoned argument. The dynamics are that good ideas are repressed by hired guns in the media aka "economists" who inevitably discourage change which threatens the status quo in/of the "economy" as it is now structured. The language, the forums and debating process itself, conceived of as a whole system, is the main limitation to rational ideas being taken up. IT is the problem, not the internal coherence or feasibility of new ideas themselves. Excellent ideaZ but the quibblers will be out in strength picking these suggestions to pieces, if they ever see the light of day in the mainstream media. Whatever happened to the Tobin tax? I even read that Tobin himself didn’t like it. What hope is there if complex issues like this can be obscured by endless debate and seemingly erudite comments going back and forth, back and forth – but signifying nothing.
We are not dealing with a rational system here. It is not amenable to reasoned argument. The dynamics are that good ideas are repressed by hired guns in the media aka “economists” who inevitably discourage change which threatens the status quo in/of the “economy” as it is now structured.
The language, the forums and debating process itself, conceived of as a whole system, is the main limitation to rational ideas being taken up. IT is the problem, not the internal coherence or feasibility of new ideas themselves.

]]> http://steadystate.org/two-robin-hood-taxes-for-the-price-of-one/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Bosco Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:01:24 +0000 http://steadystate.org/?p=1350#comment-143 Excellent idea! Excellent idea!

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