+1.
America these days is working very hard to return to mid-Victorian English
capitalist values. I am waiting for the first knuckle-dragging Republican
congressional or think-tank douche bag to suggest the efficacy of workhouses.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Mar 19, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My ideal pension system is one like the Danish one: financed out of the
> regular income tax revenues (i.e. no special pension tax), with a basic
> pension guaranteed to all, with various add-ons (for example, to pay for
> medications for chronic diseases) depending on other income. Nobody there
> talks about the system "going bust", and my parents got to live out their
> lives in a decent manner, with no luxuries, but enough to visit me abroad
> from time to time, have a decent place to live, free health care to the very
> end, etc. This is my definition of capitalism with a human face.
--
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