Von Fugal wrote: > * Michael L Torrie [Thu, 24 Jan 2008 at 13:28 -0700] >> It seems to me that part of our problem is we don't innovate on the >> scale that we used to. For example, if we think about the transistor, >> piano, car, electricity etc. All of these things are largely American >> innovations. Yet right now we think of Asia for almost all of these >> things. Yamaha pianos, cheap Chinese electronics, Korean cars. We need >> to get our butts in gear and offer products that are innovative and >> something people in the world want or need. Easy to say, hard to really >> do, though. > > Especially if we're taxed to the bone and doing all we can just to pay > the bills. Liesure is a precursor to creativity (innovation).
How do you explain, then, that the US has one of the lowest tax regimes on the entire planet? (At least out of countries that have a real government, law, order, and civil rights.) > > Von Fugal > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ -- Michael Torrie Assistant CSR, System Administrator Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 +1.801.422.5771 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
