Comments on: Mosler Palestinian Development Plan

By: WARREN MOSLER

WARREN MOSLER — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:47:30 +0000

It’s that the proposed pal state promotes the destruction of Israel, right?

By: Vilhelmo

Vilhelmo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:05:53 +0000

@Vilhelmo, Or even better, the tax could be implemented based on land value.

By: Vilhelmo

Vilhelmo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:44:12 +0000

Instead of taxing each rental unit, why not just tax each parcel of equally sized land the same amount. For example, a house would be taxed the same as an arpartment based on the size of the land parcel not the number of rental units. This would encourage people to build up the land in order to more easily pay the tax.

Sincerely,

Vilhelmo.

By: Vilhelmo

Vilhelmo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:24:00 +0000

Israel doesn’t acknowledge the right of a Palestinian state to exist. Why the hypocrisy?

By: WARREN MOSLER

WARREN MOSLER — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:16:48 +0000

thanks!

By: beowulf

beowulf — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:36:08 +0000

@WARREN MOSLER,
You should put this Palm Beach Post article up (or at least link to it).
“How,” he asked me, “are you going to bring peace to the area with employment running 30 percent and even as high as 70 percent?”
You’ll find the answer in Mosler’s 2,000-word Palestinian Development Plan on his Web page. Or you could trust me to summarize…
http://www.racematters.org/moslerworknotwelfare.htm
The ending of the article makes me think that not only Uncle Sam but any state (or territory like USVI or PR) could enact a jobs guarantee on its own.
“If the United States imposed a public service ‘tax’ of 50 hours a year per taxpayer and made the proof of labor receipts transferable in an open market, we’d have zero unemployment and more roads, bridges, airport runways, hospitals and public buildings that cost nothing for the labor.”

OK the labor receipts are transferable in the open market, like a carbon cap and trade market, but it could also be a “carbon tax” of sorts. We have a fair idea what a full-time worker’s hourly labor is worth. The (uncapped) Medicare FICA tax put on wages. A year’s worth of labor is approx 2000 hours, so 50 hour tax is like a 2.5% wage tax . Medicare FICA is estimated to bring in $80B per point this year. So nationally, $200B a year. I’ll have to think about this some more later, gotta get back to work. Good look with the radio show. :o)

By: WARREN MOSLER

WARREN MOSLER — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:53:59 +0000

Just use the Palestinian plan on this website, thanks!

By: Teresa

Teresa — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:02:39 +0000

Warren, considering Africa, would you be willing to prepare the Economic Development Plan for Mozambique that would improve the situation in the country?
I spoke not that long ago, and the P.M.A. had Mosler Development Plan as one of the options.They just never moved on.

Thank you,
Teresa

By: WARREN MOSLER

WARREN MOSLER — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:21:12 +0000

a city could do it

By: John O'Connell

John O'Connell — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:26:06 +0000

@warren mosler, Yeah, but it's the "leadership" that has to be motivated to implement it. I think they probably understand that a more prosperous population would be less inclined to blow themselves up in order to kill a few of their neighbors in Israel. Good idea, but no buyers in that part of the world. I wonder, though, if it could work in Detroit? Would there be legal obstacles for a city to do something like that, which amounts to issuing its own fiat currency?