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391 [lbo-talk] Democracy and Constitutional Rights -- rank: 243

Justin writes: "...Plato makes the point that the actual social hierachy is arbitrary, and this point has to be covered up by a "noble lie"` (Republic 414c ff)... Plato is quite clear that no one is _really_ a natural slave, it's just that hierarchy is necessary for social stability, so ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat Aug 14 10:22:15 PDT 2004

392 [lbo-talk] Progressive taxation vs flat tax -- rank: 243

Yes, that's what I meant to say. But you don't have to buy the apparatus of marginal utility theory to grasp the common sense point that another dollar means less to Bill Gates than it does to me, and less to me that it does to the cleaning staff ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Aug 5 10:47:00 PDT 2004

393 [lbo-talk] Progressive taxation vs flat tax -- rank: 243

Justin wrote: "Have you tried the argument from diminishing returns? (This is in fact the precise rationale behind progressive taxation.) The point being that a dollar means a lot less to someone who makes a $200,000 a year than it does to someone who makes, say $10,000 a year ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Aug 5 10:21:18 PDT 2004

394 [lbo-talk] Progressive taxation vs flat tax -- rank: 243

Doug wrote: >R wrote: > >>a flat tax is the most regressive tax there is. > >No it's not - a flat tax is flat (and if there's a large exemption, >it can be moderately progressive up to a point). A sales tax is >regressive because the poorer people are, the larger ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Aug 5 09:32:57 PDT 2004

395 [lbo-talk] ABC/WP poll: tepid bounce for JFK2 -- rank: 243

As I posted recently: "All the polls share a common bias strong enough to make their numbers meaningless: the demand for their product depends on the perception of a "horse race." They can therefore be counted on to adjust their (unpublished) raw numbers by such fudge factors as "demographics" and "voting ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Mon Aug 2 15:32:47 PDT 2004

396 [lbo-talk] Iraq and the Red-Browns (Anti-Imperialist Camp, Al Awda) -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner) >http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/vidino_morigi200404210916.asp >April 21 ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed Apr 21 20:26:58 PDT 2004

397 [lbo-talk] Re: What the hell is Kerry doing? -- rank: 243

one could say he's attempting to stave off the Diebold machines. R ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Mage" <shmage at pipeline.com> To: "PEN-L list" <PEN-L at SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Cc: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:23 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Re ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Fri Apr 16 21:44:11 PDT 2004

398 [lbo-talk] Re: What the hell is Kerry doing? -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner) >I am waiting for Kerry to do something right. Is ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Apr 16 21:23:36 PDT 2004

399 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 243

Doug Henwood wrote: >Shane Mage wrote: > >>Almost all CIT comes from big corporations >>who hold a monopoly or oligopoly (shared monopoly) >>market dominance. Again, by elementary theory, these monopolists >>have set their prices, wages, and supply costs at the level they >>calculated to produce maximum profit. Therefore they >>have very little ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Apr 1 21:18:17 PST 2004

400 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 243

Doug Henwood wrote: >Max B. Sawicky wrote: > >>Why have a CIT? >> >>* There's good evidence that the CIT is the only progressive >>component of the tax system. > >Sez who? Corporations are legal fictions. Either their customers, >workers, or shareholders have to pay the tax ultimately. What's the >evidence that shareholders ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Apr 1 10:23:43 PST 2004

401 [lbo-talk] Times on Said -- rank: 243

... the London Telegraph's, which recited the smears of "Justus" Weiner.

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Thu Sep 25 22:29:25 PDT 2003

402 [lbo-talk] plate -- rank: 243

... 22/03 -0400, Max B. Sawicky wrote: >it's Michael Weiner. new meaning to the expression, "dickhead!" kelley

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Mon Sep 22 16:24:58 PDT 2003

403 [lbo-talk] plate -- rank: 243

it's Michael Weiner. -----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Mon Sep 22 16:07:24 PDT 2003

404 Procedural Justice ( Re: [lbo-talk] Re: No evidence...) -- rank: 243

--- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote: > Justin wrote: > >Apparently you lack the concept of procedural > justice, > > Blame Aristotle. No mention of "procedural justice" > in > Nichomachean Ethics V :) Alas, Ari dropped the ball nwo and then . . . > > > >that is, the kind of justice where an outcome is > >rendered fair because fair ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Sep 18 14:24:43 PDT 2003

405 [lbo-talk] Re: No evidence... -- rank: 243

Justin wrote: >Apparently you lack the concept of procedural justice, Blame Aristotle. No mention of "procedural justice" in Nichomachean Ethics V :) >that is, the kind of justice where an outcome is >rendered fair because fair procedures were followed, Are you suggesting that an adversarial/advocacy system, in which the quality (or ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Sep 18 14:06:23 PDT 2003