Bklyn: Thanks for adding the latter two to the baseline. Perhaps the education element is better expressed by saying "opportunity for education", even considering it a life-time right.
BobW --- BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > It seems to me that there's a certain level that's
> humane
> and just and affordable ... and insufficient for the
>
> significant majority of people who want more than
> that. . .
> But the minimum should be way higher than it is
> today.
>
> Recently, I have been thinking similar thoughts.
> Every
> person, no matter if they want to work or not,
> should be
> granted shelter, clothing, food, medical care, means
> of
> communication, education. There will be people who
> will
> be fine with just that and society should allow them
> to be
> fine. A big shift will be to get people to abandon
> the
> practice of demonizing those who choose not to work.
>
> I think that there will be other people (and I think
> that
> these people will be in the majority) who will want
> to
> work for any number of reasons. We are never going
> to get
> everybody on the same page about how much they want
> to work,
> why they want to work, what work they want/are
> willing to do.
> Part of living will be people sorting all of this
> out on a
> day-to-day basis.
>
> > One tax, a progressive income tax, for the entire
> budget
> > No regressive "payroll" taxes
> > All costs on-budget (no SSA carveouts)
>
> Also, no/very limited inherited wealth. This would
> be another
> big shift that people would have to make.
>
> Brian
>
>
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