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9. the reason for the public works idea

Reply to Shankapotomus (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 25, 2013, 07:55 PM

Jul 2013

Property taxes are not going away anytime soon.

If there was a way to trade labor for tax debt, groups of people could use their remaining "old capital" to get the startup land required for creation of the community. If the public-works system was in place, they could be assured that the state would not come in and take the land for unpaid taxes. It could be a self sustaining non-dollar-capital system fully existing in the capitalist state.

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