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TOWARD THE MONEYLESS SOCIETY RATHER THAN HAUSER'S LAW
I left the following comment over on arohanvalue.com:
Tom Usher Says:
January 10th, 2009 at 1:48 amHello All,
If you cut taxes on the rich, they do not necessarily invest it wisely in things that result in a sustainable return. Also, they often do not share the return by plowing it back into their businesses but rather hoard it paying capital-gains taxes only when required and/or spend it on personal high living. Meanwhile, the poor and lower-middle class and middle class do not do better in constant-dollar terms (adjusted for inflation). Of course, the method of calculating inflation has been altered to make it appear to be lower than it has been.
If you raise taxes on the super rich, the 19.5% [I been given to understand from the capitalists that generally speaking, 19.5% represents a static percentage of GDP constituting general revenue from the income tax regardless of tax rates on the rich] can remain while the percentage of tax paid by the poorer people can go down or disappear entirely, thereby allowing them to save or spend more into the economy in the form of demand. The rich may not then keep more for themselves but so what? They won't be poor, not even close to it. They will be surrounded by more people able to live decently thereby making the quality of life for those with higher incomes all the better without having to pay to be insulated behind high walls with hyper-security.
The economy was not small in the early 1950's when the tax rate was at its highest. In fact, the U.S. economy was about 50% of the world's economy. Granted it was just after WWII and the other nations had sustained war damage. The truth though is that one-income families in the 1950's were doing better in real terms (equity and purchasing power) than two-income families have been doing for a long time, ever since the tax rates were so dramatically lowered with the promise of all ships rising with the tide for the rich. Trickle down didn't work though. The Laffer Curve turned out to be a laugh, as predicted.
There are other costs involved in the equation as well, such as the costs of environmental damage and other costs of no regulation and insufficient regulation. Just using GDP doesn't take those into consideration.
One must look at the overall quality of life across the entire society. Some of the social democratic nations have had much better statistical results in that regard than has the United States for instance. Infant mortality, literacy, longevity, healthcare, crime, vacation time, and many other factors must be weighed as well. Total quality of life for all is the proper gauge, not just what will afford the most growth of any kind (including detrimental to the environment and human health) and tax revenue.
Let's not forget that it was military Keynesianism that finished pulling the U.S. out of the Great Depression and military spending isn't as productive as infrastructure such as with the case of the U.S. super highway system built up under Republican President Eisenhower. Those super highways were and are socialist highways (at least the ones that haven't been foolishly privatized into toll roads).
There is absolutely no truth in the notion that government cannot plan but only react. That idea is just false propaganda pumped out by those who stand to make the most selfish gain at the expense of everyone else. The ultra-rich pay people to conjure up public-relations sound bites to drill into the minds of people to duped them and make them or keep them as minions and servants and who don't hear the alternatives, because the ultra-rich control the mainstream media and actually own the government that was supposed to belong to all the people. That's why the losses on Wall Street were socialized for those hand picked by Henry Paulson but profits were not.
If you want to go far in cleaning up the mess, get rid of the Federal Reserve and switch to United States Notes. Get rid of the usurers. Adjust the volume of notes to exactly match the needs of productivity.
If you do this, it won't be inflationary or deflationary. You don't need any metals backing it up. You don't need to issue any bonds, because you don't need to borrow from anyone. Use the notes to pay off the National Debt, and be done with it.
Blessings to all, not just the greedy.
Tom Usher
Beyond this of course lies the Christian Commons Project where all money (unrighteous mammon) would be translated into the moneyless society.
Tom Usher
Standing Comment, all posts and pages:
To all homosexuals and their supporters, condoners, promoters, accepters, confirmers, and the like:
Unless you have something completely new that hasn't already been refuted, don't bother. It won't show up.
Rehashing what has already been refuted is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not interested in casting pearls before swine, giving the children's bread to the dogs, or rebuking a forever scorner.
Learn or go away: There is zero wisdom in homosexuality. Homosexuality is wrong. Nothing any homosexual or anyone else can say or do will alter it. No one needs the Bible to know it either. It's prima facie. There's no such thing as an unrepentant-homosexual Christian. There never has been and never will be. That's the way of it. If you don't like it, change.
Do site searches on the various topics concerning homosexuality to determine if your "point" has already been handled. Currently, I provide three different search methods. The "WordPress" search is still the most thorough.
The same can be done regarding militarism, capitalism, coercion, and many other main issues and themes.
TREATMENT, RUDENESS, POLITENESS, OFFENSE, TRUTH
Many times over the course of this website's existence, I've had commentators complain about how I've treated them and/or others. Much less frequently has anyone taken exception to those commentator's comments. I assume that's because for one, I appear to be holding my own.
Often, I have raised the fact that Jesus called certain people "serpents." I've often also mentioned how he cleaned the temple with whip in hand, not that he used it on anyone. It certainly doesn't say that he did, and neither was he charged with it in the kangaroo court of the serpents who ended up murdering him by proxy just for, among other wonderful things, speaking out and speaking truth.
If I say that those who are engaged in serpentine behavior are the New Testament "serpents," then why take offense at my saying it rather than standing with Jesus and me about it?
If others don't like it that I treat others or them the way I have in this regard, why don't they take it up with the serpents and/or their own consciences and God?
If I wanted to catch flies, I'd use honey. I don't want flies on this level. Human beings aren't to be on the level of flies. If the truth is bitter as vinegar, then ask yourself why and learn to taste it as sweet but not sickeningly so. Why attack the message and messenger, as the serpents did, and become a serpent by so doing?
The issue is not "name calling" on some bratty, childish level. When Jesus said "serpents," he was not being as a brat. His level was completely adult to adults and children. He dared say that the children understood the clear and plain truth before the adults who, afterall, had been abused and socialized by the serpents. He still calls adults back. Those who hear him and know his voice (truth) turn around and do the other required things together as well.
What is it for a human being to be more serpentine or reptilian than what God initially gave? What was and remains Jesus's point? What is the reptilian brain versus the vastly higher human brain with its cerebral cortex and frontal and temporal lobes and specific areas of altruistic sentiments and abilities? What are those higher areas before they are damaged, before the communication pathways to them and between them are diminished by evil that is always some form of abuse? How are those pathways reestablished or created where they never were in this fleshly life?
The snake lays its eggs. The eggs hatch. The snake parent doesn't nurture or raise the offspring. It's every snake for itself. Human parents and family are not designed to be that way. Humans hand down the learning of nurturing. Many people get better training than do others, and many people have a greater aptitude for learning and predisposition for the higher and highest virtues. Many are less abused. People can change for the better and best though, no matter where the starting point. They only can't if they don't — if they reject it.
Snakes, of course, also come in venomous varieties and in strangling varieties, etc., such that they have been attackers and even devourers of humans for eons, guilty and innocent alike.
Now, Jesus knew that most people could relate to what were, and still are, largely considered "good" parenting skills and "good" "family" relations. He regularly used those concepts to get people to consider the wider implications for the whole of humanity. He did know that many would refuse. He let them go. He didn't demand secular or false-religion legislation to rein them in with threats of violence and imprisonment. He was not and is not coercive. Even his Church is a voluntary place to be.
What he still teaches (through the written words in the New Testament and as those connect with the Old and also teaches through the Holy Spirit he definitely sent as he said he would) is, among many other things, that "good" is vastly better than has been commonly accepted and that real "family" is everyone left after all the rest have rejected the higher and highest good. He raised the standards far above the Old Testament and far above the "modern" standard.
The American Empire and the American people in general aren't even touching the hem of his garment, let alone even attempting to stand upright and side-by-side with him.
I point out that Jesus was, and is, a Real Liberal Christian. He is the one who brought back this censored truth that is the light. After he had spoken it and lived it and was murdered for doing so, the censors set about to re-censor it and did. They couldn't put it out though — couldn't completely extinguish the truth. I wouldn't be saying it now again with all credit to God, just as Jesus, if they had been able to completely block it.
I point out that each of those terms ("real," "liberal," and "Christian," along with "Church") are actually redundant terms — synonyms that are so close that they become one. The term "liberal" here is not the common usage, which common usage is a deliberate corruption of the term. There is no harm in real liberalism. There is no vileness in it. There is only beneficence. "Real" may be understood as the opposite of false-hearted, dark side, and dead of the Holy Spirit. Christian is both real and liberal in those senses. To arrive at living, doing, being those full senses requires what Jesus lives, does, and is in the highest. Finally, the Church is the whole.
Who are they who want to drag it down, censor it, work against it, lessen it, ignore it, etc.? Well, who sides with Jesus and who sides against him? Did the serpents side with him then? Do they now?
We call war-mongers "hawks." We call "peacemakers" blessed and "doves." Why do the hawks not take offense at "hawks" but do take offense at "serpents"? "Hawks" is not yet as telling to the general public, but I must tell you that all hawks are serpents. Why do some say, "Greed is good" but take offense at "serpents"? I tell you there is no difference between the selfish and the serpents. Why do people take offense at serpents when they do not take offense at homosexuality? I tell you the homosexual spirit also comes out from the dark side. It is a choice. It is harmful. Many are abused with it. Many never overcome it. Their very brain matter is transformed by it. Then they claim it is good when it remains confusion and definitely wrong and harmful.
Many arguments were put forth in support of tolerance. I understood that Jesus "tolerated," as in he did not execute wrath but rather told the truth and let the blind follow the blind (blind to the truth) into the ditch of their own making. I have watched while the movement has been corrupted into condoning what was once only to be tolerated. I have watched further while it has moved from condoning to promoting even to the youngest children to get to them before the truth does. I have seen evil at work, and I sound the alarm. I face censorship and other negative reactions for it.
As the American Empire claims to be a light to the world, it murders innocent babies by Hellfire missiles fired from predator drones controlled by armchair, video-gaming serpents in uniform. It tortures those who are not even suspects. It spies on its own without even probable cause or reasonable suspicion. It lies its way into wars for spoils and control. It neglects its poor, whom it treads down for the sakes of the superrich — for the sake of the massive flow of mammon from the bottom up (no trickledown — trickledown is a farce and always has been). All is claimed to be okay in America though — that America is headed in the right direction — because soon, even "don't tell, don't ask" will be a thing of the quaint past and homosexuals may be able to sleep together and have sex in the barracks with the "blessing" of the Empire while they practice murdering the innocent for the sake of homosexual, greedy plutocrats who own them and who, in turn, are owned by the dark-side spirit named by God and Jesus as Satan.
Whose side are you on? I speak truth to warn. I don't tell the secular government what to do other than occasionally to say what at least would be less hypocritical within their fallen, unenlightened system. I do so for spiritual reasons. What I want is the Christian Commons.
Now, if you submit a comment:
What you write here against the Real Liberal Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ will mark you in the Biblical sense unless you show that you have turned and are repenting in time to escape the damnation of your own choosing. That's the way of it. Don't be tempted by the devil to stand opposed to the call of righteousness. Overcome such evil temptation. Help others to help yet others to come to righteous behavior through-and-through.
Check out how even after reading this, people will still take it out of context and twist it to an evil end.