All my basic premises are contained within Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.

People will be more productive when tax rates are low because they feel rewarded for their hard work.

"People will be more productive when tax rates are low because they feel rewarded for their hard work."

Right, "rewarded" with low wages thanks to cheapskate bosses.

How does lower taxes mean lower wages putin?

It certainly doesn't mean higher wages. This whole notion that people are going to be rewarded because the tax rate is low, we'd have seen proof of that by now. Taxes are at a historic low, are they being 'rewarded' with historically high wages? Not even close.

Higher taxes discourage work.

Truth always slips out of our grasp but we can and should keep trying to get our hands around it. Maybe that also means, there's truth in everything, but not too much.

Greg, you can know the truth.

Human society exists a form of ecology no different than the habitats of other animals. Everything that individual human beings do, whether business or government or crime, is a function of that ecology and operates according to the same rules as so-called "natural" ecologies.

The laws of economics are as immutable as the law of the jungle, because they are fundamentally an extension of the law of the jungle.

Of course you can know it, say as an individual by way of learning, contemplation, experience, etc., but you can't lock it down into words such that it can be eternally preserved so that others can know it. Truth can be known, but not formulated, perhaps is a way to clarify.

Know the difference between what you know and don't know. It's the one thing you can do. Of course what you find, if your brutally honest with yourself, is you know little or nothing. Plumbing the depths of your own self-deception is the prerequisite of knowledge.

The prospect of return on labor, a profit, motivates human beings to solve problems that would have remained unsolved absent the promise of a profit.

"Greg, you can know the truth."

Maybe Mujus can but if me and Greg are on the same page then I don't think you can.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

I agree with TC here. Unfortunately, he has muted me, and will not know of this. lol.

To TC by Redhouse:
"I agree with TC here. Unfortunately, he has muted me, and will not know of this. lol."

A society that elevates its citizens above the consideration of every living thing on the planet is doomed from the start. We don't own the planet. We are not the master of everything we can get our hands on. We are not apart from this earth but a part of it.

Isn't there some game in the southern US where you try to grab the greased watermelon? Very engaging, lots of fun and activity, great metaphor for truth.

Zultar, the baby isn't master of the cradle?

I don't get why that's funny. I was being serious.

We can look at it two ways. People have a purpose on this planet that elevates them above the other things on the planet. Alternatively, there is no purpose to the planet, except for life itself, and then human intelligence rises above the the muck and mire and rises up toward the heavens. Either way, the earth is a cradle, not a prison.

That said, you don't trash your cradle. Poor taste!

The only true freedom is the freedom to say no.

No means yes. Yes means anal.

In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favourable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic republic. But this democracy is always hemmed in by the narrow limits set by capitalist exploitation, and consequently always remains, in effect, a democracy for the minority, only for the propertied classes, only for the rich. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners. - VI Lenin

If individuals do not have to work for their bread they will not.

If your past governs what you do today you have no future.

Actions always have consequences.

A wise man learns from the experience of others while a fool relies only on his own experience.

Winning with Austria is sweeter than winning with any other country.

If the United States government was put in charge of the Sahara Desert within five years there would be a shortage of sand.