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"Many countries could be come debt free"

Why is "debt-free" a desirable condition for a nation?

"This starts with compensating them fairly and providing important benefits."

So 51% of corporate profits are reserved for the employee bonus pool? And all employees are eligible for said bonuses?

It's not hard to come up with examples of where this fails. Don't give me aspirational pie in the sky. Give me operational policy.

The same way it worked for Atlantis.

Do you have some special method of holding back the tides?

"I don't believe consumers secretly yearn for largely text based pages"

I sure as hell do.

Joe Sixpack doesn't give a fuck either way.

That's not a precedent to set lightly.

Government money creation should be used for actually productive purposes. While avoiding costs represents some kind of return, it's not clear that's the best plan.

Relationships matter. Independent truckers or small trucking companies have close relationships with their customers. The matters in both the Business-As-Usual case (Ron drives a beer distribution truck which makes the same route to the same bars twice a week) and the Not Normal case (Hey Fred, I have a load that needs special handling and immediate delivery response).

Large, generic haulers just don't offer the same kind of customer service.

That's why you have taxes to destroy money and control inflation.

There are good reasons why budgets should be close to balanced most of the time.

Are you unclear on the meaning of create?

"I want higher taxes because the government can do better things with the money"

Note that this thinking only applies to nations which are currency users, not currency issuers.

For a nation with it's own fiat currency (currency issuers) government spending creates money, and the role of taxes is not to fund spending. Taxes fulfill other roles, like controlling inflation and expressing social policy.

My social skills are just fine. You don't waste my time, and I won't waste yours.

If you ain't got nothing to say, don't waste my time.

As a state employee, my salary is published for all to see.

https://illinoiscomptroller.gov/financial-data/state-expendi...

Inflation comes from too much money chasing too few goods and services.

So to reduce inflation, the easiest way to remove money from circulation is to buy Federal government bonds.

The other way to reduce inflation is to create new value among the goods and services offered in the private sector. What new product or service can you create?

Demonstrate how those programs do keep the country safe. Just because someone wants to do it doesn't mean that it's actually valuable work. ------ "Karp, whose Palo Alto, California-based company provides services to the Defense Department, CIA and FBI, blasted tech companies that refuse work with the federal government to keep the country safe."

As someone with gaps in my resume for various reasons, I have found a range of responses by potential employers.

I have worked in two different career fields. When I made that switch, getting the professional certifications took me about 3 months, during which time I was not working. Almost nobody asks about the gap, though almost everyone asks about the career switch.

I have a several year period in which I was working only contract employment. There are gaps of up to 5 months between contracts. Most employers ask something about that time, and most are satisfied with the simple explanation that finding a new contract took that much time.

Some employers care more than others. IBM required me to write a letter of explanation for every gap of 3 months or more. Some employers don't even ask.

Because women commit vastly fewer crimes than men in almost every way.

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/...