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July 14, 2012

Bankrupt in California

Has no one in California figured out that when the calf is deprived of mother's milk, starvation is inevitable?

It has taken 34 years, but it is coming about.

Feeding calves grain, or seaweed, or sunflower seeds isn't as smart as letting it consume its natural food.

Taxing wages, sales and buildings isn't as smart as collecting the lion's share -- calf's share, if you will -- of the land rent for public purposes.

Proposition 13 was designed to make sure that the cows' milk was kept for the Irvines, the big landowners, the commercial property owners, and the longtime homeowners, while providing a diminishing fifth of it to the calf and supplementing with grain, seaweed and sunflower seeds.

The calf's digestive system has blown up because it was deprived of its proper food, and "nourished" with stolen fake food.

 

Posted on July 14, 2012 at 01:56 PM in absentee ownership, all benefits go to landholder , better cities, boom-bust cycles, bubble, connect the dots, cost of living, cui bono?, direct taxation, fixing the economy, government's role, indirect taxation, land rent, land speculation, land value created by community, land value taxation, little people pay taxes, Natural Public Revenue, one solution for many problems, paying twice, popular ignorance of land economics, privatization, privilege, Proposition 13, reaping what others sow, rent-seeking, sufficiency of land rent, tax reform, teach your children well |

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