[lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Marvin:
> I may have missed it (haven't read the whole thread) but have 
> you touched on how you would answer right-wingers who argue 
> public employee jobs, pay and benefits should be slashed 
> because they increase the tax burden on workers in the 
> private sector, and that for this reason the right to strike 
> should also be withheld from public employees, and, where 
> applicable, removed?

Please do read the whole thing because I outlined a coherent (I think)
argument against such right wing bullshit - based totally on the classical
notions in economics - so no Marx cult membership is required to accept it.
Basically the argument boils down to the statement that taxes are user fees
no different from user fees charged by private businesses (like insurance
companies, private schools, etc.) and as such, they are actually lower than
fees charged by businesses, because they do not include profits.  So taxes
are actually  a bargain (comparing to private fees for same services) not a
burden for the public, albeit that may cut the private property owners out
of the loop.

What surprises me is Yoshie in her "bot" mode spitting out nonsense that
seems like the recitation of the right wing propaganda.  Go figure.

Wojtek