(You wrote:-) I think what you are
referring to is the socialist concept of a Universal basic income, committed
at a fixed rate, and paid out of taxation if necessary on the assumption that
the "big bad business exploiters" could carry the cost. These people
seem blissfully unaware that costs like this get passed on to the mug consumer
like you and me. And them. And while I would normally hesitate to
speak for Don, who may well read this, I can assure you he doesn't agree with
this idea! A national dividend would depend on the state of the economy,
as determined by a national credit authority.
I wouldn't want to
infer that Don does agree with that idea, John. I've never seen anything
he, himself, has written that advocates that. Even though the
booklet itself was part of a package of supposedly 'Social Credit' literature
distributed by him.
I would think
it would be simply to increase awareness of the need for some changes.
While that is always laudable, it is unfortunate, but probably unavoidable,
that some people's ideas that have certain similarities to Social Credit are
likely to be picked up and labelled as 'genuine' Social Credit by many people
introduced to the subject this way.
Sometimes it's
pretty hard to shake some of those erroneous ideas loose, once they've been
implanted in someone's mind. (That's the "Voice of Experience" (of an
admitted holder of sometimes 'erroneous ideas' myself), speaking here!
Best to try to keep an 'open mind' until we are certain how all the pieces of
the puzzle fit together. Lots of 're-thinking' necessary, but that's
what we were given brains for.)
On the other hand, you still
have missed my point. The public would have the means to buy all the
Fords and all the Toyotas. Many, many less twenty or thirty year
old cars on Kiwi roads!
Well, I think we're
both missing each other's point. And maybe the 'real' point, too, when I
read what Bill has now written. So far as I'm aware, the CPD would
apply to all goods for retail sale, your own production and
also imports.
Regards,
Joe
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