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Re: Bush and his politics

Posted By: Superfoborg (ip68-6-118-241.sb.sd.cox.net)
Date: 6/13/2003 at 8:59 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Bush and his politics (Phil)

: Well, let's hope for the sake of the poorest people that
: their TVs don't break and that their kids don't want
: anything for Christmas. All kidding aside however,
: though I didn’t' mention it in my last post, I didn't
: come up with the negative net completely arbitrarily.
: I concluded that, on average, a tier of the level
: we're talking about would receive about 2,000 more in
: tax revenue than it would owe back. However, because I
: do the books for a small company that owns it's own
: building, I incorporated what I considered to be
: rather conservative estimates for what the tier
: government's basic expenses would be for the year.
: These expenses included things like paper, toner,
: janitorial services, power, water, waste service,
: telephone and Internet service, and other similar
: office expenses. I did not count any salaries or
: mortgage, assuming that those would come at no cost
: under your system. Still I concluded these expenses to
: be much less than the similar expenses of a very small
: company and rounded the total to about 7,000.

You are still assuming that the tier government itself is spending money. The tier government doesn't actually HAVE any money to spend. Governmental units are meta-entities; they are merely proxies to the units within them. They don't have anything real themselves. For most of these lower-level tiers, all government positions are part-time; the lowest-level tier consists of about 20 people in a neighborhood/whatever, one of whom is the elected president and representative to the next-level tier. In a complete vacuum the Net of a tier would always be 0. The only reason its Net is otherwise is if a tier has a higher or lower... ah I see the communication problem here.

A tier gathers the reports from its units, averages their Nets and submits that to the parent as their Net. Lets call that the inner-Net (no pun intended). What the tier's Net profit or loss is as far as calculating its own units' balance or refund is the number the parent gives back to them as what the tier itself owes or is owed. Call that the outer-Net. It's Net-after-taxes. (Remember as I said, the information starts at the bottom, goes up to the top, then the taxes can actually be calculated from the top back down to the bottom. Then the money is collected up to the top and can be redistributed back to the bottom).

Gotta go now, reply to the rest later.

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