Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Wrong Alexander. Read what I have said. You cut public spending to make room and cut taxes, specially on businesses but also on individuals, this will stimulate growth. Excessive tax is our enemy, as is excessive public spending. This is a simplification of a complex system but it is essentially true.
You really should find out more about economics Alexander.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Your calculations make sense, Barry, and I too have worked out a flat-tax system, based on the tax system of Ancient Athens. According to this system of the Athenians, introduced prior to Pericles, however, there were tax groups, five I believe.
The lowest paid no tax at all, but the higher the tax category the higher the set amount of tax that was due each year,
An individual paid annually the amount of tax which their category prescribed, regardless how much they earned.
They would only pay more if they moved on into the higher category, which depended on the value of their possessions, ie land, ships, workshops, houses...
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Here's an interesting extract, Barry, concerning economy in ancient Athens, written by Takis Fotopoulos:
"Economic democracy, therefore, relates to every social system that tends to minimize the socio-economic differences and in particular those differences which are due to the unequal distribution of private property and the consequent unequal distribution of income and wealth."
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Presumably modern-day Greece forgot those precepts and that's why they're now in the brown sticky stuff.
Roger
Keith Sansum1
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is post 22 and 23 for real????
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Brian Dixon
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kieth,in alexanders case yes.
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I do try to understand the posts
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Roger, the clue could be found in the fact that the states of Ancient Greece, including Athens, did not have a public debt.
Hence they avoided a situation in which Greece is in now.
But there are very interesting writings on the development of democracy and economy in Ancient Athens.
They go a tad further than Keith Sansum's writings
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I'm sure they are interesting writings, and im sure somewhere lesson's can be learnt from these writings, and i'm sure theres some relevance
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