James you need to find people who will listen. Look at the Basic Income Earth Network if you haven't already heard of the organization. http://www.basicincome.org/bien/ How to fund a basic income is a serious topic in places where the movement is more advanced such as Europe, Brazil and Nambia and South Africa.
Also check out the Journal of Basic Income studies: <<Basic Income Studies is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal devoted to basic income and related issues of poverty relief and universal welfare. An exciting venture supported by major international networks of scholars, policy makers, and activists, Basic Income Studies is the only forum for scholarly research on this leading edge movement in contemporary social policy. Articles discuss the design and implementation of basic income schemes, and address the theory and practice of universal welfare in clear, non-technical language that engages the wider policy community. Past authors include Philippe Van Parijs, Claus Offe, Joel Handler, Erik Olin Wright, Philip Pettit, Carole Pateman and many more. BIS is published by The Berkeley Electronic Press, and from 2008 onwards publishes three issues per year, including a special themed issue in December. Recent themed issues discussed the relation between basic income and republicanism and feminist perspectives on basic income. You can download articles and research notes published in BIS *for free* via the Bepress guest access policy. Please visit the journal at http://www.bepress.com/bis, click the link of the article you want to view, and follow the instructions.>> harry On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:42 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > My proposed tax system does just that through the liquid value estimation. > Monopolies are basically "no brainer" asset valuations and if an asset's > value is basically "no brainer" then its profit stream will be distributed > to all citizens equally in the citizen's dividend. This works even for > non-legislated monopolies such as Bill Gates' asset value in MS-DOS once IBM > had made it the defacto industry standard birtually forcing everyone to pay > a tax to Gates in order to benefit from industry standardization. > > Its terribly tragic people won't listen to me about this. It really is. > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:34 AM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think that much of the money held by the 1% crowd was obtained by legal >> monopolies. It is a shame that the regulators have not prevented this from >> occurring, but instead have encouraged it. True competition would prevent >> this from happening in most cases since the profits are substantial for >> those participating, and the various laws should be adjusted to break up >> such concentrations of power. >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Paul Breed <[email protected]> >> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> >> Sent: Mon, Mar 4, 2013 11:16 am >> Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT: Wealth and Inequality in U.S. >> >> The only thing shown to reduce income disparity is a freer market, yet >> that is the one thing not currently discussed. >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Inequality is a law of Nature. Now, when we are living in Moneytheism, >>> it is applied to wealth, in the dawn of the human societies it was already >>> applied to power. (who has invented kings, emperors, dictators?) Re-read >>> please the chapter about Mediocristan and Extremistan in the "Black Swan" by >>> N.N. Taleb a great book to be read by LENR workers of all ages,too. >>> Democracy can scratch a bit at the surface of Inequality but cannot >>> change the situation much. >>> Peter >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> That is depressing. The facts described in it have been widely known for >>>> decades. It is like the extreme cost variations of healthcare described in >>>> Time magazine the other day. Educated people know about it but it is not >>>> considered politically correct to discuss it in the mass media or during >>>> political campaigns. >>>> >>>> - Jed >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Peter Gluck >>> Cluj, Romania >>> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >> >> >
