יום ראשון, מרץ 15, 2009

Some comments about the previous post

Fred commented about my post and correctly said that it is not coherent enough, does not work with the knowledge of the science of Economics, that tariffs in all probability will be countered and that as a whole my entry was a result of personal frustration. He is probably correct in all of what he has said (he'd mentioned other points as well.) My partial answer, besides admiting to most of his comments is in these two comments:

1. This was not a conspiracy theory, just naming something with its true name.
2. The Tariff solution is indeed wrong, but trying to eat the cake and have it too (i.e. tax us to death for social programs while allowing others to take advantage of that overhead difference) does not work either. If you may not force others to impose social programs, you must either impose those on your side (i.e. tax them in order to establish those social programs for their employees [well, a pointed tariff in any other word],) or cut those social programs in your side, or, if both are impossible, cut all other taxes that pay for indirect social programs in your side. I may not think about any other solution… oh, and you must also increase the transparency of corporations’ management compensation as close to absolute transparency as possible.
The two parties in the helm, did nothing of these and when Bush tried, half assed, to do the latter (which is the only viable solution in the long run) he himself countered it with uncontrolled spending and incompetent appointees such as Cox that allowed the apparent bubble to grow beyond precedence and eventually explode. Obama already began with uncontrolled spending of his own and is promising to kill any tax advantage that we may have started to develop.