re: #409 barflytom

It’s rather arbitrary, to say the least.

How is it arbitrary? I thought you liked taxes on wealth. It’s a tax on wealth.

I just can’t see why Federal spending needs to be 25 % or so of GDP.

See, this is the thing. Spending needs to be whatever it needs to be in order to address the actual problems we have. People who think of it in terms of percentages confuse me. The goal shouldn’t be figuring out how much we want to spend, it should be figuring out what we need to do.

Like combat AGW, which is going to take a fuckton of government spending.