Era Might Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Full article at the link. Interesting point. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june13/krugman_06-06.html PAUL SOLMAN: Now, Krugman does agree with Stockman about crony capitalism, but not much else. So, at the end of the interview, I asked Krugman why he thinks Stockman's overall indictment has made such a splash. PAUL KRUGMAN: Everybody wants economics to be a morality play. Everybody wants it to be a tale of sin and excess, and then the punishment for sin. And this notion that we had a bubble, we had runaway stuff, we had bankers run wild, therefore, the economy must suffer a sustained slump, and anything you do to mitigate that is somehow enabling the sin and we will pay for it, that's ... PAUL SOLMAN: Even though there were sins? PAUL KRUGMAN: Even though there were sins. But economics is not a morality play. There is nothing about the fact that bankers made bad loans in 2005 that says that ordinary workers should be out of work in the year 2013. People love to write about the -- or talk about the lurid details of everything that went crazy in the bubble years, and they don't really much like to talk about the kind of prosaic, OK, but how do we get people back to work right now? So, I think that's -- you know, the sermon aspect -- people love to treat economics as a sermon, when it's actually -- it's actually just a job. You know, here's this economy. How do we fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4588686 Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestertonian Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Abolishing the IRS would be a good start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4588686 Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Abolishing the IRS would be a good start. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregorMendel Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Abolishing the IRS would be a good start. You know we'd still have to pay taxes, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestertonian Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Why? For many, many reasons. Here's one: taxing productivity is counterproductive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestertonian Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 You know we'd still have to pay taxes, right? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregorMendel Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 For many, many reasons. Here's one: taxing productivity is counterproductive. How would we fund local, state, and federal operations of government? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 How would we fund local, state, and federal operations of government? We do not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightofChrist Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 (edited) Abolishing the IRS would be a good start. It's a corrupt and abusive government agency with too much power, but the current President isn't Republican, so not only will that not be supported the current IRS scandals and other abusive government agencies scandals will fall on deaf ears. You'll have to wait for a Republican to become President for the MSM to program the masses to care and be outraged about these gross injustices. Edited June 8, 2013 by KnightofChrist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightofChrist Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 How would we fund local, state, and federal operations of government? Funding for all of those was successful before the IRS was established. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestertonian Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 How would we fund local, state, and federal operations of government? The Fair Tax seems like a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 How would we fund local, state, and federal operations of government? Funny how those things got done before the IRS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anastasia13 Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 (edited) How would we fund local, state, and federal operations of government? Either trust the goodness of mankind or hire another private collection agency. The Internal Revenue Service is not an agency of the United States government. http://www.illuminati-news.com/irs.htm Edited June 8, 2013 by Light and Truth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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