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Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For (Original Post) eridani Jan 2014 OP
Socialism? n/t PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #1
Much higher taxes on wealthy. All income treated same regardless of source on point Jan 2014 #2
K&R #5 This should definitely be on the greatest page. n/t Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #3
What does some of that even mean? Matariki Jan 2014 #4
here ya go RobertEarl Jan 2014 #5
With some reservations, yes. And the wording could be a whole lot better. Matariki Jan 2014 #7
Nationalizing resources is privatizing them, it is monopolizing them The2ndWheel Jan 2014 #9
Who wrote this? A freshman 5 pages into the Communist Manifesto? bobclark86 Jan 2014 #6
HUGE K & R !!! WillyT Jan 2014 #8
I'll continue fighting for #2 CFLDem Jan 2014 #10
bump... nt Jesus Malverde Jan 2014 #11

Matariki

(18,775 posts)
4. What does some of that even mean?
Tue Jan 7, 2014, 03:06 AM
Jan 2014

"Take Bake The Land"? What land? From who? For who?

"Make Everything Owned by Everybody" Huh? What does that mean? Everything? Are we talking communal underwear? What?

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
5. here ya go
Tue Jan 7, 2014, 03:23 AM
Jan 2014

Take back the land.... make it so that if a person wants to have land to homestead, it is available. Like the old days when homesteaders were given land if they settled it. That was one thing that made this country great.

Make everything owned by everybody...... our natural resources are owned by everyone but the profiteers have corrupted that. What we need is a nationalization of all the resources to keep corruption to a minimum. One way to look at it is we all own the sun and the air, the oceans and the rivers. We just need to expand that reality and make it so no one corp or person can ever again make greedy profits by monopolizing our birth rights.

How's that grab ya?

Matariki

(18,775 posts)
7. With some reservations, yes. And the wording could be a whole lot better.
Tue Jan 7, 2014, 04:10 AM
Jan 2014

What you are talking about is the concept of The Commons. A very good thing. And not quite the same as 'everybody owning everything'.

The2ndWheel

(7,947 posts)
9. Nationalizing resources is privatizing them, it is monopolizing them
Tue Jan 7, 2014, 03:11 PM
Jan 2014

It's grabbing control of those resources by a single species. Take a look at how we've done it with land when it comes to agriculture. Other life comes around to eat the food grown sometimes, just trying to survive, but we come up with ways to kill that life or deter it in some fashion. If that's not privatization, I'm not sure what is.

bobclark86

(1,415 posts)
6. Who wrote this? A freshman 5 pages into the Communist Manifesto?
Tue Jan 7, 2014, 03:55 AM
Jan 2014

"Ever noticed how much landlords blow? They don't really do anything to earn their money. They just claim ownership of buildings and charge people who actually work for a living the majority of our incomes for the privilege of staying in boxes that these owners often didn't build and rarely if ever improve."

I take it this person never heard of maintenance, codes inspections, property taxes... Property ownership ain't exactly cheap. I've never had a landlord who didn't give a shit -- because I pick good ones. My current landlord lives next door (bought the house because he was sick of cops busting in the two floors of crack dealers). He fixes shit and even shovels for me. Oh, and I pay less than a good trip to the titty bar (or 200 bad trips to the titty bar) for rent.

"The value of the land has nothing to do with my idle, remote landlord; it reflects the nearby parks and subways and shops, which I have access to thanks to the community and the public. "

They exist because somebody paid taxes and got those parks and subways. Parks and subways aren't exactly cheap.

Yeah, some landlords are donkey-raping shit-eaters. Find one that isn't.

 

CFLDem

(2,083 posts)
10. I'll continue fighting for #2
Tue Jan 7, 2014, 08:21 PM
Jan 2014

and some sort of work corps for #1, but that's pretty much the only two that make any sense.

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