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Pragmatarianism: Choosing Wrongly
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Choose Where Your Taxes Go. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Reply to: Going with your example of Bob and his bakery, I do trust him to know best what decisions he makes…. Why would Bob choose to spend his tax dollars on medical research? How can infrastructure funds possibly be put to their most valuable uses without Bob’s valuation? Your concern is that Bob is going to spend his tax dollars on the wrong things. How many tax dollars do you imagine Bob spending in the public sector? Maybe $1,000 dollars? I’...
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Pragmatarianism: Tax Choice For Neighborhoods?
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Choose Where Your Taxes Go. Friday, August 7, 2015. Tax Choice For Neighborhoods? Reply to reply on: "senseless human greed". Let's try and simplify this. You and I are neighbors. Each property owner in our neighborhood has to pay $100 per year for various public goods. but they can choose where their neighborhood taxes (n-taxes) go. There are three main public goods. litter removal, graffiti removal and a neighborhood watch. What happens if I decide to stop funding litter removal? According to your argu...
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Pragmatarianism: 1 Question For Anybody Who Opposes Privatizing Marriage
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Choose Where Your Taxes Go. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. 1 Question For Anybody Who Opposes Privatizing Marriage. Which arguments are worse. the arguments against unbundling cable or the arguments against unbundling marriage? Which weighs more. a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks? Probably the single biggest argument against unbundling cable is that doing so would increase the costs of the individual components. And this is a bad thing because higher prices are always. Bad for consumers. Right? Maybe al...
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Pragmatarianism: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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Choose Where Your Taxes Go. Friday, August 16, 2013. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). Here are some answers to frequently asked questions regarding pragmatarianism (tax choice). I've selected the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be my default example. Wouldn't important government organizations be underfunded? This is logically impossible because "importance" can only be determined by how much an individual is personally willing to sacrifice for something ( opportunity cost. How would it work?
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Pragmatarianism: Evaluating Mistakes on an X Y Graph
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Choose Where Your Taxes Go. Thursday, October 3, 2013. Evaluating Mistakes on an X Y Graph. How do you define the word "mistake"? How many different ways can you allocate the resources that you now have? Context: Are Congresspeople Omniscient? I decided to create the x y graph. At any given time you have a finite amount of resources at your disposal. Just having these resources though isn't as important as how you use them. Each particular use (allocation) of your resources will provide you with x. When ...
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Pragmatarianism: Centralized vs Decentralized Government
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Choose Where Your Taxes Go. Saturday, August 8, 2015. Centralized vs Decentralized Government. Reply to replies: "senseless human greed". So it sounds like Xerox's limited understanding of economics is based on the "rational choice" model. No wonder his posts are such bollocks. - Strange. If this is your perception then you're not familiar with either model. The rational choice model is based on the idea that people usually make rational economic choices. Therefore, the market doesn't need everybody to a...
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Pragmatarianism: Crowd Sponsored Results
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Choose Where Your Taxes Go. Monday, April 28, 2014. There are 5 irrelevant search results. For "Crowd Sponsored Results". The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, was inspired by Hayek's essay." The Use of Knowledge in Society. The basic concept is that markets utilize information that is dispersed throughout society. Wales used this critique of socialism (centralized allocation, top down control) to create a website that makes it easy for the crowd to share its partial knowledge. Shallow vs Deep Input.
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Pragmatarianism: Maximizing Opportunities By Clarifying Demand Diversity
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Choose Where Your Taxes Go. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Maximizing Opportunities By Clarifying Demand Diversity. Reply to: Appreciate the response. 1) If you don’t. Nooooo. We can forever eliminate recessions and depressions simply by allowing resources to freely adjust to changing conditions. That there was a massive surplus of labor. It’s really important to understand that demand is. Diverse. People want food? True People want all the same type of food? Will people allocate their taxes differently?
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Pragmatarianism: Minimizing Economic Wackiness
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Choose Where Your Taxes Go. Monday, August 3, 2015. Reply to: Thank you for the thorough and thoughtful response. A year ago I created a group on reddit for participatory budgeting. PB) Not too long afterwards I ended up getting shadowbanned. Stupid reddit. Apart from the banishment… I like the idea of reddit. It’s interesting and useful to know the relative popularity of ideas. If X Y… then why bother with markets? With pragmatarianism… directly allocating taxes would be optional. Nobody would...For som...
