(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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