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General Bogosity => The Podcast => Nominations for Biggest Bogon Emitter and Idiot Extraordinaire => Topic started by: BreadGod on April 20, 2014, 08:05:38 PM

Title: BBE/IE: Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl
Post by: BreadGod on April 20, 2014, 08:05:38 PM
http://www.vox.com/2014/4/20/5629904/study-tax-hikes-could-grow-the-economy (http://www.vox.com/2014/4/20/5629904/study-tax-hikes-could-grow-the-economy)

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've read all week. These people are essentially saying that if we jack up taxes then stock brokers will become teachers and make America better because... reasons.
Title: Re: BBE/IE: Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl
Post by: Dallas Wildman on April 20, 2014, 08:17:44 PM
QuoteThe idea: low taxes lead people to waste their lives on money-making

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Title: Re: BBE/IE: Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl
Post by: Travis Retriever on April 20, 2014, 08:26:01 PM
QuoteThe idea: low taxes lead people to waste their lives on money-making
Oh wow.  Sounds like the old, "Govco spends the money better than you!" mixed in with, "jobs that pay less are better for society/more noble than those that pay lots!" No doubt said from someone atop an ivory tower...
Title: Re: BBE/IE: Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl
Post by: AnCap Dave on April 20, 2014, 08:29:04 PM
QuoteThe idea: low taxes lead people to waste their lives on money-making

(http://oi47.tinypic.com/2m4wpp4.jpg)
Title: Re: BBE/IE: Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl
Post by: Skm1091 on April 20, 2014, 09:10:19 PM
QuoteThe idea: low taxes lead people to waste their lives on money-making

(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/047/6/2/head_desk_by_catmaniac8x-d4pz9ps.gif)
Title: Re: BBE/IE: Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl
Post by: Ibrahim90 on April 21, 2014, 03:04:15 PM
Quote from: D on April 20, 2014, 08:29:04 PM
(http://oi47.tinypic.com/2m4wpp4.jpg)

even the king of the working man is horrified. a very bad sign indeed.
Title: Re: BBE/IE: Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl
Post by: ElGeecho on April 23, 2014, 09:01:46 PM
That's pretty bad, although the article itself wasn't as awful as I feared.