From: phyllis bergiel (neilfl@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 03:08:26 BST
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From: "johnny moral" <johnnymoral@hotmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: MD Undeniable Facts
Johnny and Platt,
Just one question - according to your conversation below, where does
(physical) death fit in? it doesn't seem to have changed much - is it a
pattern? It's still final, unless you believe the Raileians or the
cryogenics folks.
Phyllis
> Everything is patterns interacting. There are no isolated patterns. A
bird
> attempts to do its pattern, a worm attempts to do its. Through it all,
> oxygen and gravity are doing their pattern, interacting with birds and
> worms. All patterns tend to maintain their pattern, because it is good
when
> they do, but in the course of trying to do their pattern, other patterns
get
> thwarted. If they start getting thrawrted all the time, they stop being
> patterns, or they change.
>
> >Oh, oh. Enter good old stale, static left-wing political thinking.
>
> Do you deny you've been marketed to?
>
> >I'm all for eliminating taxes. I never heard a liberal say that. :-)
>
> I'm actually not for eliminating taxes, just changing where they come
from.
> Instead of income tax, I like luxury taxes, large sales taxes on computers
> and consumer electronics and cars and property and furniture of like 30%.
> And I like the idea of a national sales tax that would be about the same
as
> the 2-3% that credit card companies skim off all our transactions with
> stores. We should get that money, not First USA shareholders and
> executives, so lets eliminate their function by nationalizing the banking
> network infrastructure. They had their day, now it is time for the open
> source community to really do something useful.
>
> I imagine a public network that would transfer the money out of the buyers
> account and into a government escrow account for a set period of time and
> then, minus the sales tax, into the sellers account (both the buyers
account
> and the sellers account could be accounts in this public database, no one
> would need to have a bank anymore). All transactions would securely and
> privately go through this network, so that escrow account would be a huge
> rainy day fund. Car and house payments would sit in the account for a few
> days before being transferred to the sellers account, small items like
> household goods would sit for a few hours. It's hard to know what could
be
> done with the trillions of dollars that would be available in that fund,
> perhaps money could be loaned for tuition and housing from this fund at no
> interest.
>
> Johnny
>
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