I wasn’t even commenting on the rightness or wrongness of the Illinois payout, but the notion the “producers” will go all “Galt’s Gulch” is one of the stupidest notions ever developed by someone who was actually considered a “legitimate” economic theorist.
As is the general idea of “the makers” and “the takers” to begin with…
Rand was one of those people who had some interesting ideas on paper but the second you try and logically explore any of them it all falls apart so dramatic and so fast.
It has almost all the exact opposite problems of why Marxism-Leninism tends to fall apart.
confiscating money from producers… hmm… Let me think about a time when powerful men in the United States forcibly confiscated what should have been producers earnings. Can you think of a time that happened?
Most dog whistles are set to a frequency the average person can’t hear.
This rings more true every day:
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
-John Rogers
Really? housing discrimination hasn’t been legal for decades. So they are writing checks to people who have never been discriminated against? Make no mistake, I’m in favor of it. The more racial animosity they can stir up in lib areas the better for us.
Raced based handouts. No matter what you read, that’s what it is.
Apparently it was happening in the city between 1919 and 1969.
They apparently are writing checks to those who were impacted. 1969 is only 57 years ago
And the racial animosity that was stirred up between 1919 and 1969? That’s not relevant?
As restitution for race based discrimination in housing . Don’t leave that part out.
From what has been described payments are only going to those who directly impacted by policies from 1919 to 1969. There’s still a good number of people who lived in that time who are still alive. It’s not a blanket reparations scheme based solely on race.
That’s the right way to do it.
Is whatever they receive taxable?
Would a government ever make something not taxable?
As inevitable:
That’s unsurprising.
