[GJM] Thoughts on President Ghadaffi.....and a "Tax" to StopTaxation.

[robert searle]

Dear Rodney,

       Yes, I can see the BE connection quite clearly,
and  this prompted your initial interest in Ghadaffis
ramblings....

R.Searle.


--- Rodney Shakespeare
<rodney.shakespeare1 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Dear Robert,
> The Ghadaffi speech appears  to relate to government
> reports which, basically, slam government operations
> for being inefficient, corrupt etc.  The Ghadaffi
> response is then to propose abolishing (with some
> exceptions, e.g. for security and big infrastructure
> projects) all governmental intervention in the
> economy  -- i.e. most of the economy as at present.
> 
> Put another way, the oil income money (greatly
> increased because of recent oil price rises),
> instead of first going to government and its
> operations, will start by going,  in the first
> place, to citizens individually.  A refrain in the
> speech is to the effect that you (the citizens) get
> the money and you can get on and spend it as you
> wish (and take the consequences of, e.g., drinking
> it away).
> 
> There are, of course, many  ifs and buts as to what
> is meant and what might, or might not,  be
> implemented (if ever) -- not least as to education, 
> health, roads, bridges etc  Futhermore, it is
> mentioned that the oil money income can vary (as it
> does quite substantially in the Alaska pipe line
> scheme for Alaskan citizens) but I presume that the
> general intent is to try to generate some sort of
> productive market economy which stands a chance of
> surviving after the oil runs out.
> 
> The binary Iraq plan (non-transferable lifetime
> share in the proceeds of the oil for each individual
> citizen) proposes something similar and its
> implementation would have done much to prevent the
> disastrous situation which is Iraq today because it
> would have given every citizen a direct interest  in
> political and economic stability and the successful
> running of the oil fields.  Binary economics is
> based on the people ultimately coming to own a
> nation's assets and have the income from the assets.
>  Today the Americans are still trying to get the oil
> fields sold off to them (it is rumoured by bribery)
> and, as far as I know, the Bremer Orders are stil
> largely in force.
> 
> I realise that the Ghadaffi speech boggles the mind
> (and it may be only a sort of protesting rhetoric)
> but Ghadaffi is President of Libya and GJM ought at
> least to try to address what might be involved.
> 
> Rodney Shakespeare.
> 
> 
> 
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "robert searle" <dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: "Discussion Forum for Global Justice"
> <discussion at globaljusticemovement.net>
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 1:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [GJM] Thoughts on President
> Ghadaffi.....and a "Tax" to StopTaxation.
> 
> 
> > Dear Rodney,et al,
> > 
> >      I have only read a little of Ghadaffis
> > ramblings. I have also did a quick check on the
> > internet, and it appears that his notions are
> based on
> > his Green Book. Yet, I cannot find anything much
> which
> > tells me much  about his "political philosophy".
> > 
> > Ofcourse, you are right in one of your latest
> posts
> > that "the devil lies in the detail" (though these
> were
> > not the exact words you used but you indicated as
> > much) about any kind of policy-making. 
> > 
> > This is true of many other things including
> ofcourse
> > TFE. However, the inflation controls, and how they
> > would operate have become alot clearer, and more
> > credible. I have had to accept the need for
> Inflation
> > Induction which can be seen by some as a "Tax" on
> > ending Taxation as we would understand it.
> Bizarre!
> > But, I can see no alternative.
> > 
> > 
> > Robert Searle
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- Rodney Shakespeare
> > <rodney.shakespeare1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> So, Robert, what are your thoughts on the extacts
> >> from President Ghadaffi's speech?
> >> 
> >> Rodney>
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