tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post4832816493191183348..comments2023-09-24T08:04:06.909-04:00Comments on FSK's Guide to Reality: What's a Manifesto?FSKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-53417120150875194152010-03-13T17:00:43.230-05:002010-03-13T17:00:43.230-05:00If we had communism, there would be no homeowners....If we had communism, there would be no homeowners.<br /><br />All such private property would be abolished.<br /><br />Party leaders, however, would still have the use of their dachas.<br /><br />Communism is a scam. Just like the Indian guru whose followers give up all their belongings while he has a fleet of limousines.CorkyAgainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-61292812245361241532010-03-12T22:16:10.786-05:002010-03-12T22:16:10.786-05:00Dude that is capitalism, not communism. In capita...Dude that is capitalism, not communism. In capitalism the poor give all their money to goldman sacks in the form of taxes. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. If we had communism the homeowners NOT the banksters would get bailed out.Screamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13142914784845007952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-6109315544940801602010-03-12T15:45:32.403-05:002010-03-12T15:45:32.403-05:00"The cost of starting a business is 'Make..."The cost of starting a business is 'Make sure you're in compliance with the bureaucracy!" more than "Do something useful and get customers!'"<br /><br />Too true.<br /><br />And "compliance with the bureaucracy" often means being good friends with someone in a position to pull strings for you. You're either in with the gang or you're not. <br /><br />I remember when "manifesto" was mostly a shorthand for "revolutionary manifesto". It described the essays issued by "bomb-throwing radicals". Their purpose was to explain and justify the actions of these revolutionaries, and to lay out their program for reform.<br /><br />The Declaration of Independence is a document of this kind. <br /><br />But I think the use of the word "manifesto" traces back to Marx and/or the socialists of his era...<br /><br />In his book "The Social Construction of Reality" Peter Berger has some interesting observations about the kind of intellectuals who issue manifestos. <br /><br />He defines an "intellectual" as an expert whose expertise is not wanted by the society. <br /><br />"Like the 'official' expert, [the intellectual] has a design for society at large. But while the former's design is in tune with the institutional programs, serving as their theoretical legitimation, the intellectual's exists in an institutional vacuum, socially objectivated at best in a subsociety of fellow-intellectuals."<br /><br />The outsider's manifesto is never read, except perhaps by other outsiders. The establishment neither requested nor welcomes his analysis and proposals.<br /><br />Pro-state analyses and proposals are always invited and welcome, because they don't threaten the parasites' hold on power. FSK is right: it's interesting that no one calls these documents "manifestos".<br /><br />And isn't "FSK's Guide to Reality" just one long manifesto?CorkyAgainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-49771089163599524122010-03-11T22:42:17.214-05:002010-03-11T22:42:17.214-05:00Good post. When I hear manifesto my ears perk up a...Good post. When I hear manifesto my ears perk up and I add something to list of things to read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-65677582710088793012010-03-11T22:11:12.577-05:002010-03-11T22:11:12.577-05:00Nice try Anonymous #2, but you still fail reality....Nice try Anonymous #2, but you still fail reality.<br /><br />The correct answer is "All taxation is theft!"FSKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-82476417523358991392010-03-11T20:44:26.729-05:002010-03-11T20:44:26.729-05:00You can classify taxes as being in 2 distinct form...You can classify taxes as being in 2 distinct forms:<br /><br />1) Transaction or income based<br />2) Non-transaction or income based<br /><br />Taxes of form (1) are a bit fairer than of form (2). Why? Because if you lose your job or have a low-paying job, you don't get slammed into the wall and thrown out of your apartment or house. You only get taxed if you are actually earning money and then proportionally.<br /><br />The UK government is proposing a 10% death tax on-top of an already existing inheritance tax which is 40% on estates over a certain value.<br /><br />Given house prices in the South-East of England have risen dramatically in the past decade, a lot of houses and flats will get hit by inheritance tax.<br /><br />If you live with family (as is common given the high price of housing - both to buy and to rent), it means that death and inheritance taxes means you may get thrown out of your house or flat when a family member dies.<br /><br />It is shocking that the UK might end up with TWO DIFFERENT DEATH TAXES - a 10% death tax and a 40% inheritance tax.<br /><br />So if you have to sell your flat or house, you will end up having to pay surveyors, lawyers, removal people, bankers etc. Not to mention being removed from the community in which you know and possibly work.<br /><br />The UK government must contain heartless scumbags to even by thinking of a 10% death tax.<br /><br />If the clowns made it 1% it would at least be affordable.<br /><br />The very rich will simply avoid these taxes by using trusts etc. which scum-bags lawyers don't allow little people to use.<br /><br />One law for the rich and another for the poor.<br /><br />The sooner this corrupt and heartless Nu-Labour Zanu party is kicked out of office the better.<br /><br />However given they bankroll a huge welfare state and a growing number of State employees, they will get a certain number of paid-for votes.<br /><br />Don't people realise without people in private sector jobs, there will end up NO MONEY TO SUPPORT THE PARASITICAL government and their employees.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-9795696122862718222010-03-11T15:26:20.548-05:002010-03-11T15:26:20.548-05:00I always wondered why despite working long hours f...I always wondered why despite working long hours for companies, I never made any money for myself after paying taxes and rent. Rent is far too expensive. It can be almost a third to half of your salary.<br /><br />Local (council) taxes are a tax, after your income has already been taxed. And the money just goes to council parasites on hundreds of thousand of pounds a year.<br /><br />The UK government really needs to crack down on to local council clowns on vast salaries. The savings should go towards reducing local, council taxes. They are just getting too high.<br /><br />If people had more money, they could use that money to start their own businesses, invest in them and employ more people.<br /><br />At some point all the money will go to the bozos and private enterprise will be strangled.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com