Asgaard wrote:
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Timothy C. May wrote: The 70% already _are_ cutting the throats of the other 30%. It's called a 60%+ tax rate. This is the sum of: federal income tax, state income tax, Most of these taxes are not used for feeding the poor but to support the Nomenclatura of the Bureaucracy and we all want to get rid of that.
Cf. what sociologists call "the demographic transition." Countries that value learning and wealth are _not_ facing a population problem. In fact, many such countries are now at "below replacement" birth levels. And that's good. The world population really should go back to around 1 billion for achieving a stabile ecology (with singing birds for the peace of minds). The former (?) US system of encouraging young standalone women to make babies to get benefits was very bad. The Chinese system - less benefits the more children you have - is the way to go.
Just a comment: "The world population really should go back to around one billion", etc. And how could we achieve that without severe govt. oppression, one wonders? Now, I've heard of "education" being used to help the masses learn to be responsible citizens ad nauseam, but since education is pretty much just propaganda in the massively-capitalist system now taking over even the P.R. of China, how the heck is education going to work?