----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
The latter. It's called an incentive. Of course that's a democratic decision to be made by the legislature, how to set the tax rates, but if all the fruits of luck or talent are taxed away, you might as well not have a market system.
============== Ok and how do you avoid the ridiculousness of winner-take-all outcomes that occur in some markets?
I think socialists have to return to Marx's perspective on this and give up on the bourgeois idea that equality of incomes is important. Marx didn't think so. He was right, too.
jks
=============== That's where a basic income grant comes in; whether or not it's hooked to full employment via Gov. job, service learning networks etc. a la Andre Gorz or Adrian Little would be decided, again, by the legislative bodies. No one would starve or be unable to pay for housing etc.
Ian