Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

Yeah, I know what you mean. My point is to have some kind of feedback 
mechanism at the point of purchase that informs the buyer how much it 
really costs them in the future to buy something instead of making or 
growing it. The monetary economy does a grand piece of work hiding those 
costs so that people will be disinformed or uninformed when they "vote" 
with their money.
They end up voting for cheap stuff and then complaining when other forms 
of taxation have to make up for the cheap prices on food and 
manufactured goods, while they "see" the cost of government constantly 
shown on the news or during debates about taxes, so they vote for more 
of the industrialists who have "proven" themselves to be more efficient 
(by shifting many of their costs and risks to the commons).

As a purchase, perhaps people don't pay enough VAT to make them get 
involved in how it's spent.
After all, the more they spend for a car or a house, the more they put 
into taking care of it.
Perhaps they subconsciously consider 23% as the price for a disposable 
government.

I'm just musing. Try not to take too much of my insanity seriously.

Great topic and discussion. My thanks to everyone and Paul, too.

;)

On 3/30/2014 11:00 AM, livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> From: "John D'hondt"<dhondt@eircom.net>
> To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
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> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Why industrial farming may be the most,
>         INefficient farming method
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> We have a 23 % tax on goods and services here Dan. It is called value added
> tax or VAT.
> The thing is that nobody here notices this doing any good for the commons.
> It does allow our top politicians to have higher wages (and massive perks)
> than your president though. For the commons there is austerity.
> John