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Ben Banana

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  1. I feel I'm slipping away from this forum and sliding toward poetry. I've just won a cup for one of my poems and imatfaal won't even lend me fifty quid here. ;-)

    1. Ben Banana

      Ben Banana

      Roses have a low, but visible wave-length. Violets have a high, but still visible wave-length. . . Stay here!

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  2. The one who fallows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone will usually find himself in a place no other has ever been before.

  3. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

  4. Some of you read too much and fall into lazy habits of thinking.

  5. Some of you read too much and fall into lazy habits of thinking.

  6. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

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      Ben Banana

      Could you elaborate please? I really want to understand, but unfortunately I don't exactly know what you're talking about. Sorry, maybe you could share some explanatory links?

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  7. Some of you read too much and fall into lazy habits of thinking.

    1. Ben Banana

      Ben Banana

      (post a Youtube video or something, that'd be fine)

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  8. Some of you read too much and fall into lazy habits of thinking.

    1. Ben Banana

      Ben Banana

      Whatever you're saying, could you vocalize this please? I don't feel like reading.

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  9. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

    1. Ben Banana

      Ben Banana

      Too bad you've left them vague and I still don't know what you're talking about. I was just poking.

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  10. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

    1. Ben Banana

      Ben Banana

      Well, I don't think they can. Can they? (Note: this is all speculative.)

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  11. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

    1. Ben Banana

      Ben Banana

      And that was just one illustration, based on dragonstar's statements. But lets also consider how competitive the market is. If its perfectly competitive, then they cannot avoid the burden of taxation so easily.

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  12. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

  13. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

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      Ben Banana

      ... people depend on their product e.g. gasoline.

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  14. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

    1. Ben Banana

      Ben Banana

      ... make them like what you like more. You can implement that with tax cuts. Now their (costs and) prices are even lower! Although there are some acts of mischief which are very harmful and many cannot be eliminated by mere tax uts. Apparently, by dragonstar's information, neither can increased taxing help so much. If they produce a very inelastic good (such as petroleum), they can easily increase prices and continue the mischief as if the new taxes did not exist, because people depen...

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  15. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

    1. Ben Banana

      Ben Banana

      "If we raise taxes they raise prices."

      As if taxes weren't a cost to them?

       

      "if the cost of production goes up prices go up." Oh, ok. Indeed.

       

      "no as business is doing worse under low taxes."

      Why do they like low taxes?

       

      Are you saying low-regulation makes them economically perform worse? There are much better solutions to prevent corporate-mischief. i.e. Rather than try making them hate what they like, make them like what yo...

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  16. There's a huge difference between "algebra" and basic reasoning with arithmetic.

  17. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

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      Ben Banana

      They do worse with lower costs? I thought you just stated the contrary?

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  18. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

    1. Ben Banana

      Ben Banana

      That's why taxes are better to be low, isn't it?

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  19. Why atheists see miracles, and don't even take it as evidence.

  20. I AM BLIKE.

  21. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

    1. Ben Banana

      Ben Banana

      dragonstar's talking about elasticity. What does he mean by passing it down the line? Whatever that means, please explain why you think its bad, dragonstar.

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  22. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are publicized to the point possible while profit is privatized.

    1. Ben Banana

      Ben Banana

      There are concrete externalities, but costs and risks elusively apply to privatized firms.

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  23. I AM BLIKE.

  24. We should have a holiday where we celebrate the insignificance of our religiously designated calender systems. Which day should it be?

  25. We should have a holiday where we celebrate the insignificance of our religiously designated calender systems. Which day should it be?

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